NFPA Journal - July/August 2020 - 41
REMOTE VIDEO INSPECTION
ARE
ARE
YOU
YOU
SEEING
SEEING
THIS?
THIS?
THANKS TO CORONAVIRUS,
REMOTE VIDEO INSPECTION HAS
GONE FROM A SELDOM-USED
APPROACH TO THE NEXT BIG
THING IN BUILDING LIFE SAFETY
BY JESSE ROMAN
On March 23, about a week after West Hartford, Connecticut,
closed its town hall and instructed its municipal employees to
work remotely, Tim Mikloiche, the town's supervisor of building
inspections, sat at home squinting at an iPad screen. His building
department's grand experiment was about to begin.
Miles away, a contractor working on a kitchen remodel opened
a video chat app and held his phone aloft. Images of a torn-up
kitchen began bouncing around on Mikloiche's screen. According
to the project plans, the remodel was to be solely cosmetic-but
Mikloiche saw something else. "As we were starting the inspection, the first thing I noticed on the screen was something that
looked like a piece of engineered lumber," Mikloiche recalled.
The contractor told Mikloiche that there had been a last-minute
"minor" change and that he'd ended up moving a weight-bearing
wall. "Not only is that not in the plan, that is structural," Mikloiche told the contractor. "We need the specifications, and we need
to make sure that lumber can handle the load."
In that moment, West Hartford's very first remote video inspection became a failed inspection. But the experiment itself was
anything but a failure-it was a much-needed proof of concept.
"I was hopeful before, but I became a lot more hopeful in that
moment," Mikloiche said. u
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