This document is a brief overview of the typical commercial building permit process for the City of Houston. Links are added for reference. Please contact Building Code Enforcement for assistance with specific questions pertaining to your individual project: 832.394.9494. Presentation, May 31, 2007.

Last updated: February 2024

List of City-registered Mechanical contractors.

Disclaimer: The inclusion of a mechanical contractor or company on this list does not imply and should not be interpreted as constituting or implying any endorsement, recommendation, sponsorship, support, affiliation, or approval by the City of that mechanical contractor or company, or the information on the mechanical contractor's or company’s site, nor the products or services they offer.

Last updated: Feb. 23, 2021

This technical memo is provided to describe the importance of mechanical ventilation in new homes and the relevant Houston Construction Code requirements to consider for mechanical ventilation construction. 

Uploaded 2-13-2024

Last Update: March 7, 2025.

Last updated: 06/01/2022

Definition terms related to existing building alterations that are used for administrative processes associated with plan review and permitting. 

This form is to assist in the plan review, permit and inspection process for those properties that have been required by the Airport Land Use ordinance to meet sound attenuation requirements. This form is to be completed by the designer or builder to ensure that either the prescriptive code requirements are met or an approved assembly is utilized to meet the requirements in the building code.

Last updated: March 2024

The template drawing is to assist in the preparation of plans for residential remodeling and addition projects

Drawings may be used to document a 1-hour fire-rated exterior wall design for wood-framed structures located less than 5-feet to the property line after the effective dates of the adopted 2015 IBC and IRC codes.

11.30.2021