The California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) has launched a new website where health-care facilities can digitally submit architectural plans for review.
Beginning today, OSHPD’s Facilities Development Division is accepting electronic documents for certain projects. The division regulates the design and construction of health-care facilities.
The paper blueprints are bulky and take up space. Instead, the division is now accepting files sizes of up to 100 megabytes in .pdf format.
The new portal offers real-time monitoring of project status, digital plan stamping, a commenting feature and corrections reports.
"In an effort to streamline the plan submittal process, reduce paper waste and reduce expense and inconvenience of printing and shipping multiple copies of the construction documents, OSHPD has developed an Electronic Plan Check (EPC) program. Electronic plan check will allow concurrent reviews by OSHPD staff which should reduce review turnaround times and will support a consolidated corrections list that clients can use to track and respond to comments. It will also facilitate more complete and comprehensive plan check comments as well as providing feedback on areas where submittals are consistently in need of correction or focus," according to a statement from OSHPD.
This video from OSHPD shows the new electronic features.
