Permit Office (AHJ)
City of Boston Inspectional Services Department (ISD)
Suffolk County · Massachusetts
MEP, structural, civil, and energy-compliance engineering for Boston projects — permitted through City of Boston Inspectional Services Department (ISD) and designed to the city's adopted codes and amendments.
Coordinated mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design — engineered as one system, stamped by licensed professionals, and documented for fast permit approval.
Structural systems designed to the loads your state actually imposes — gravity, seismic, wind, and snow — with drawings built to get approved the first time.
Site engineering that clears local review — grading, drainage, and utilities designed to each jurisdiction's published standards from day one.
Energy compliance handled as engineering, not paperwork — documentation matched to the exact code edition your permitting jurisdiction enforces.
Boston enforces the statewide 10th-edition code rather than a separate municipal building code; 780 CMR 34 supplies the existing-building provisions. Its Specialized Energy Code adoption and BERDO 2.0 emissions rules are separate but consequential overlays for new construction, major renovation, and covered existing buildings.
Boston's work is concentrated in life sciences, academic and hospital campuses, multifamily housing, and conversion or modernization of older commercial buildings. The city’s aging masonry, brownstone, and warehouse stock makes occupied renovation, utility upgrades, and existing-building-code analysis recurring engineering work, while BERDO 2.0 increases the importance of operational carbon planning for covered buildings.
Reviewed 2026-09-11. Code editions and local requirements can change; confirm the current requirements with the authority having jurisdiction before design.
Boston ISD accepts building-permit applications and design documents through its online permitting system; commercial work is routed for zoning, building, fire, and other agency reviews as applicable. Projects in historic districts, on the waterfront, or involving public ways can also require Boston Landmarks Commission, Boston Planning & Development Agency, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, or other separate approvals.
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