NEW UPDATE FOR INSPECTIONS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY

100 W. Washington Street, Suite 1401

Hagerstown, MD 21740 | 240.313.2380

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Danielle Crabb, Director

Phone: 240-313-2384

Email: dcrabb@washco-md.net

NEW UPDATE FOR INSPECTIONS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY

Implementation of Email Notifications

HAGERSTOWN, MD (March 16, 2018) – Washington County Division of Construction in conjunction with the Division of Plan Review and Permitting , will be implementing a new enhancement to inspections called Email Notifications. This enhancement is designed to provide updates to the field contact person regarding their inspections as well as notify them of an expected arrival time of the inspector.

“We wanted to provide our customers with information that would help them through the inspection process as well as notify them in advance as to when an inspector will be arriving onsite,” said Tim Lung, director of Plan Review and Permitting. “Time is valuable in trying to keep a project on track and by notifying customers when their inspection has been scheduled or completed allows the customer to plan accordingly.”

Implementation of this enhancement will occur on April 2, 2018.

Listed below is the process of how the enhancement will work:

Email notification will be sent when an inspection has been scheduled
Arrival Time will be sent using a 2 hour window
Email notification will be sent when an inspection has been resulted on and will include any comments from the inspector

The permit techs will be collecting the field contact information at time of permit application. An email address is necessary in order to receive the notifications.

Rich Eichelberger, director of Construction, shares his excitement about the new enhancement, “the County is very excited to introduce this new feature to allow our customers to have greater access to information concerning their project. Efficiencies can be achieved from limiting the amount of time an individual will have to be on site to meet with an inspector to receiving inspection results without the need to visit the project site.“

There will be additional permitting notification enhancements coming in the near future

For additional information contact Public Relations and Marketing Director Danielle Crabb

at 240-313-2384.

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