IBC Chapter 17 special inspection requirements, how it differs from structural observation and the building official's own field inspection, concrete/steel/masonry inspection checklists, and handling nonconformances found in the field.
Special inspection is a statutory IBC Chapter 17 requirement, not a voluntary quality check — this module works through the Statement of Special Inspections that scopes it on a real project, and untangles three roles that get confused constantly on real jobs: the building official's own code inspector, the engineer of record's periodic structural observation, and the special inspector's continuous or periodic technical verification of specific high-risk work.
By the end of this module you should be able to explain what a concrete, steel, and masonry special inspector each actually checks and why, and how a documented nonconformance in the field — an under-torqued bolt, a defective weld, a blocked masonry cleanout — moves from an inspector's report to the engineer of record's technical resolution and finally to the closed-out Statement of Special Inspections a building official reviews before granting occupancy.