Hurricanes don’t inspect your paperwork — they inspect your construction. JB’s Contracting & Maintenance designs, certifies, and builds homes around the wind loads this coast actually delivers, and retrofits existing homes so they hold on when it counts.
Most contractors frame what the plans show and send anything wind-related out to an engineer. A Certified FBC Residential Wind Design Technician — a credential issued through the Building Officials Institute and the Association of Construction Industry Certified Professionals — is trained and examined on the Florida Building Code’s wind provisions, ASCE 7 wind-load standards, and ICC 600 high-wind residential construction. In plain English:
Have plans that need wind-design certification for permitting? Bring them to us. We review and certify qualifying residential plans — yours or ours — and we’ll tell you straight if a project needs an engineer instead.
We rebuilt this area after Hurricane Michael, and the difference between houses that held and houses that didn’t usually came down to connections you can’t see from the street: how the roof grabs the walls, how the walls grab the foundation, and whether the openings held. Wind design is the discipline of getting that load path right on paper before anyone swings a hammer.
It is a documented review of your home’s wind-resistant features — roof shape, deck attachment, roof-to-wall connections, opening protection. Florida law requires insurers to offer credits for qualifying features, and on this coast the savings are often real money. The discount amounts are your carrier’s call, not ours — we build and document the features that qualify.
For qualifying residential projects, our Certified FBC Residential Wind Design Technician (RWT #235291) can calculate wind loads and certify plans for permitting in-house. Some projects — unusual structures, engineered systems, certain commercial work — still belong with an engineer, and we will tell you straight which one yours is before you spend anything.
Usually, yes — in stages. Roof-to-wall connections and opening protection deliver the most strength per dollar, and a re-roof is the single best moment to upgrade straps, deck fastening, and the water barrier while everything is open. We will prioritize by what your house needs, not by what is easiest to sell.
Designing for wind up front is dramatically cheaper than retrofitting for it later — most of the strength comes from connection choices and fastening schedules, not exotic materials. What it really buys you is a house that is still yours after the storm.
Build it for the wind it will actually see. Call 850-363-3111 — plan certification, wind-smart new builds, mitigation retrofits, straight answers. See our Storm Damage & Insurance Claims Guide for what to do after a storm.
CI® Certified FBC Residential Wind Design Technician on staff · RWT #235291 · Licensed & Insured: Building RB29003726 · Roofing RC29027629
