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Ludlow Engineering Provides Elevation Certificates

Below we have listed what an Elevation Certification is all about:

Insurance Continuing Education – Building Elevation Information

BUILDING ELEVATION INFORMATION (SURVEY REQUIRED)

The responsibility of providing a number of elevations based on the building type selected is that of the surveyor, engineer, or architect.  From these elevations gathered, the agent is required to determine the lowest floor for rating flood insurance.

The surveyor, engineer or architect should complete Section C, but if it is left blank, the agent should contact the responsible person who completed the form and the insurance company underwriter with any questions.

Elevations of machinery and equipment servicing the building (water heater, furnace, air conditioner, etc) must be provided, regardless of its location, whether inside or outside of the building, elevated on platform or not elevated.

Where the surveyor, engineer or architect cannot access the crawl space, an estimate on item C2 may be left blank and the estimated measurements entered on the comments section (Section D).

Elevations in Section E are based on feet, except in Puerto Rico, where it is metric and the agent must convert any readings to feet.

SURVEYOR, ENGINEER OR ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION

Section D is the certification of the surveyor, engineer or architect that the information provided by them is correct and their signature and identification number are required—in some states, a seal may be required.

BUILDING ELEVATION INFORMATION, ZONE AO AND ZONE A (WITHOUT BFE)

Section E – The difference between the highest and lowest elevation grade are required.  For the designated Zones, the property owner or his representative may completed Sections A, B & E.

PROPERTY OWNER OR REPRESENTATIVE CERTIFICATION

Address and other contact information about the property owner are requested in Section F.  The party completing Sections A, B, C and E must complete this section also.

COMMUNITY INFORMATION

The local official authorized to administer the community’s floodplain management ordinance may transfer elevation information found on existing documentation—such as from an older elevation certification form or surveyor letterhead—to Section C, and then certify this information by completing Section G.  A statement advising FEMA of this transfer of information must be made in the comment section of the EC.  Section G may also be used to certify Item E4.

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We Offer All Kinds Of Land Surveys

Here at Ludlow Engineering we offer several types of Land Surveys.  We offer any type of land survey which deals with construction, highways, residential and commercial subdivisions and more.  Look below to see our list of surveys we provide:

Accidental Surveys – When accidents occur, we can identify the locations of the accident, which can be documented for a case in court.

Cell Phone Tower Surveys -  When new cell phone towers are constructed it requires items which need to be reported.  How to access the ground legally, the location description, the angle the cell tower faces and more.

Construction Staking – Construction staking is the process of staking the approved plans and details of a construction project.  This can be a commercial siteplan.  It can be a new road that has been approved and developed.

Telecommunication Staking and Surveying –

As-built Surveys – When a project is built often times it requires a survey to show how things were built and established on the ground.  These surveys are called As-built surveys.

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Utah Certificate of Elevation

Often times you as a land owner are required to get a elevation certificate.  This is required when part of or all of your home sits near or under a floodplain area and where more information may be needed.

We have included the inforamtion directly off of the FEMA website which addresses Elevation Certificates.  Hope this was helpful.

If you need help with your, please give us a call today (435) 623-0897.

FEMA’s new Elevation Certificate (EC) was approved for use, effective March 16, 2009, through March 31, 2012. The new EC will be phased in on a voluntary basis until March 31, 2010. Although the old version of the form is no longer available for distribution, existing copies may be used until March 31, 2010. Elevations certified on or after April 1, 2010, must be submitted on the new form.

What’s New?

• Section A adds items A8.d and A9.d to identify whether the enclosure, crawlspace, or garage has engineered flood openings.
• Section C now captures the lowest adjacent grade at lowest elevation of deck or stairs, including structural support. This information is required if the EC is being used to support a request for a LOMA or LOMR-F.
• Instructions for Section A for items A.8.b-c and A.9.b-c have been revised, in part, to allow the height of flood openings to be determined from the interior grade or floor.
• Instructions for other sections have been clarified and expanded, as needed.
• Two new Building Diagrams have been added:
  • The new Diagram 1B is for raised-slab-on-grade or slab-on-stem-wall-with-fill single- and multiple-floor buildings. (Diagram 1 from the old Elevation Certificate is Diagram 1A on the new Elevation Certificate.)
  • The new Diagram 9 is for all buildings (other than split-level) elevated on a subgrade crawlspace.

• Elevation Certificate (includes 8 building type diagrams for determining reference levels) (PDF 306 KB, TXT 52 KB)
• Elevation Certificate MS Word Template (DOC 146 KB)

The EC form and instruction packet are available from the FEMA Distribution Center at 800-480-2520 (ask for FEMA Form 81-31). It will also be reproduced in the May 1, 2009 NFIP Flood Insurance Manual.