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The FTE has released their draft 2025 General Tolling Requirements (GTR) for Industry Review.  Review comments are due by COB on Friday, 09/26/2025.  Review comments may be submitted directly to Aniruddha Gotmare and Gordon Greene.

2025 GTR – Appendix 1 | 2025 GTR – Appendix 2_Redacted | 2025 GTR – Appendix 3_Redacted | 2025 GTR – Appendix 4
2025 GTR Part 1 | 2025 GTR Part 2_Redacted | 2025 GTR Part 3 | GTR Part 1 – Redline | GTR Part 2 – Redline | GTR Part 3 – Redline

Florida’s updated stormwater rule is the most significant regulatory shift in years for civil engineers, developers, and public agencies. FES and ACEC Florida Environmental and Water Resources Committees are presenting a 6-part webinar series that breaks down the new rule and offers practical insights into compliance, performance criteria, permitting, and policy impacts. If you were unable to attend a session live, members can login and view the recordings below.

Reacting to the tragedy of the Champlain Tower South collapse in Surfside, Florida on June 24, 2021, Structural Engineers from ACEC Florida and the Florida Engineering Society assembled a coalition of engineers and building professionals from various backgrounds, understanding that changes are needed to Florida’s Building Code and inspection laws to assure the safety of all other existing structures in Florida.

This coalition includes engineers from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Florida, the Florida Engineering Society, the Florida Structural Engineers Association, the Florida Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and other building professionals from the International Concrete Repair Institute, the Building Officials Association of Florida, and the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects. Together this group presents the following recommendations from the Florida building professionals.

In October 2021, Florida professional engineers and building experts released the Surfside Working Group’s Florida Building Professionals Recommendations, which focus on preserving the long-term health of buildings by assessing environmental and other degradation of structures and their systems over the life of a building.

The recommendations were provided to lawmakers for their consideration in establishing mandatory minimum structural inspections and post-occupancy whole building safety inspections.