FREE WEBINAR FOR BUILDING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LEADERS

Prepare Your Building Department for the Retirement Wave

Across the country, building departments are losing their most experienced staff to retirement faster than they can replace them.

This session walks through what that means for your inspections, reviews, and daily operations, and how to keep work moving when it happens.

Ready to protect your department's service continuity?

What You'll Learn

See the real impact of retirements

Understand how losing experienced staff changes inspections, reviews, and daily operations.

Know where gaps appear first

Identify the roles that carry the most risk when a senior team member leaves.

Start the succession conversation

Get a simple way to raise this with leadership before a vacancy slows your department down.

What Happens When Experience Leaves the Team

The problem

Most departments don't have a formal succession plan.

When someone announces they're retiring, the clock starts, and finding a qualified replacement takes longer than most teams expect.

Construction workers having a conversation.

Why it matters

Inspections slip. Plan reviews stretch.

The unwritten knowledge about who to call, how projects get handled, and what stakeholders need doesn't live in any manual. It leaves with the person.

Construction team reviewing a work site.

Who This Session Is For

Building Officials

You’re already feeling the gap when a senior inspector or plan reviewer leaves, and you know the next hire won’t walk in ready.

City & County Managers

When the building department falls behind, permit timelines slip and development projects stall. This session helps you see the risk before it becomes your problem to manage.

Community Development Directors

Staffing transitions in plan review and inspections affect every project in your pipeline. Here’s how to stay ahead of them.

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"Departments that plan ahead stay steady. The ones that wait until it's too late end up reacting under pressure."

Featuring Your Hosts

Juliana Hoffman, Director of Marketing & Communications

Juliana leads marketing and communications for SAFEbuilt, working alongside building officials and municipal leaders across the country. She hosts SAFEbuilt's Real Roadblocks Series, turning complex staffing and operational challenges into grounded, practical conversations.

Jason Pasiut, CBO, CASp Director of Building Department Services

Jason brings 25 years of experience across nearly every role in building safety — from inspector and plan reviewer to building official and operations director. He holds Certified Building Official and CASp designations and a master's degree in public administration, and works directly with jurisdictions managing staffing transitions and growing workloads.