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A working library for Sealed-Work Report Drafting.
Practice notes on the regulation, liability, and economics behind the reports you sign, plus Word templates calibrated to Ontario conventions for every discipline. Free, no signup wall.
Practice Notes
Regulation, liability, and the occasional argument with the industry.
Signed pieces on sealed engineering work, and what AI assistance does, and does not, change about the profession. New notes monthly.
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Workflow economics
What Fermito actually does: from field notes to the report you seal
The engineering happens on the site visit. The hour afterward, turning observation notes into the narrative report a P.Eng will seal, is the clerical hour Fermito gives back. Here is exactly what it does between your field notes and the sealed document, and where it sits next to the tools you already run.
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Is this just Procore? Where Fermito fits in the construction software stack
Procore runs the project. Bluebeam marks up the drawings. Both shipped AI in 2026. Neither writes the sealed narrative report a licensed engineer signs and stamps - and that is the layer Fermito occupies. Here is how the stack divides, and why the distinction is about the job and the buyer, not the technology.
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Drafting assistant vs. generator - the distinction that matters in sealed work
The engineering profession is adopting AI drafting tools without a shared vocabulary for what they do. The difference between 'assistant' and 'generator' is not marketing - it determines whether the tool fits within existing professional liability frameworks or creates a new category of risk.
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The real cost of a field review - a time-and-motion breakdown from a twelve-engineer firm
A structural engineering firm in the GTA tracked every hour that goes into a field review report - from the drive to site through the sealed PDF leaving the office. The numbers explain why senior engineers spend their evenings drafting instead of reviewing.
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Regulatory literacy
General review vs. building inspection under the OBC
Two different functions are constantly mistaken for one. The designer's general review and the building official's inspection answer different questions under different authorities, and neither one discharges the other.
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Mechanical field review under OBC 1.2.2.2
OBC 1.2.2.2 binds the mechanical engineer who sealed the HVAC permit drawings, not only the structural firm on the project. Here is what general review means for mechanical work, and how the report shifts when the observations are instrumental.
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What OBC 1.2.2.2 requires in a field review report
Article 1.2.2.2 requires a general review and a professional opinion on general conformity. The field review report is the artefact that proves both. This piece goes element by element through the report the clause contemplates, and what separates a defensible entry from a thin one.
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Templates
Free Word templates, sized for a P.Eng or OAA seal.
Structural is live and downloadable now. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and architectural variants release as each one is drafted, reviewed against the reference corpus, and signed off.
Structural FRR
AvailableThe workhorse template. Site visit under OBC 1.2.2.2, observations + photos + recommendations, revision history section, signature block sized for a P.Eng seal.
OBC 1.2.2.2 - PEO Reg 941
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