For DOB permits
ACP-5 Filing in the Bronx
The survey and signed Asbestos Assessment Report that keep a Bronx permit application from stalling.
No ACP-5, No Permit. Here Is How It Gets Done.
The Bronx is one of the five boroughs, which means building work here answers to both DOB and DEP's asbestos rules. Before most DOB permits are issued, the city needs a written answer on one question: will this work disturb asbestos? That answer is the ACP-5, formally the Asbestos Assessment Report. Its signer must hold DEP investigator certification and must have walked and surveyed the work area first. The survey does the heavy lifting. Suspect materials in the work area are identified, sampled and analyzed by an accredited lab. Work that stays clear of regulated asbestos gets a completed ACP-5 for the permit package. If it will, the report shows it, and that material must be abated, with a project notification on file, ahead of any permitted work. Either way, your architect or expediter files knowing what is actually in the space. That matters in the Bronx, where prewar plaster, old tile under newer flooring and lagging hidden in chases are common. Alteration jobs in apartments, commercial fit-outs, boiler and plumbing work and demolition all run into this step. Get it right and the permit moves. Get it wrong and you may find out later, from DEP, with the job already underway.
What the ACP-5 Work Includes
Survey, lab results and the report, handled as one package.
Scope review
The permit's scope of work decides exactly which areas get surveyed.
DEP-certified investigator
The survey is performed and the report signed by an investigator certified by DEP.
Sampling and accredited lab work
Suspect materials sampled and analyzed, each result tied to a location.
Signed ACP-5
Completed when the planned work will leave regulated asbestos undisturbed.
Straight answer on positives
Which materials are asbestos and what abatement they need first.
Abatement path
When something must come out first, it is abated under a project notification and the permit path resumes.
Coordination with your expediter
Findings shared with your architect, expediter or GC so the filing lines up cleanly.
Records kept
Survey findings and lab reports organized for the building's files.
How the ACP-5 Gets Done
Share the permit scope
Apartment alteration, storefront build-out, boiler replacement, demolition. Tell us what is being filed so the survey area matches it.
Survey and lab
Walkthrough by the DEP-certified investigator, samples bagged for an accredited lab, and a rundown of every result when they land.
File or abate
Clear results mean the signed ACP-5 goes to your filer. Positive results in the work area mean abatement comes first, then the ACP-5 path continues.
Why Get It Done Here
Survey that matches the scope
What the paper says matches what is behind the plaster and under the floor you will open.
Abatement in-house
If something tests positive, the same team scopes and abates it.
Plain talk on results
What came back positive, what did not and what it means for your schedule.
- DEP-certified investigator
- Accredited lab
- Survey matched to scope
- Abatement path ready
Permit Held Up Waiting on an ACP-5?
Tell us the scope and where the filing stands. You will get the survey plan, what the report covers and the fallback if a sample hits.