Key takeaways
- Since June 29, 2026, requests for Electrical Development Inspections are submitted and managed in a new module, DOB NOW: Inspections Plus, instead of DOB NOW: Inspections.
- It launched alongside the 2025 New York City Electrical Code coming into DOB NOW: Build, which brought new questions and requirements to electrical filings.
- Special inspections have not moved. TR1 categories and the agencies that perform them are where they were.
- Two modules with similar names is exactly the kind of thing that sends a request to the wrong place and costs a week.
In this article
The Department has been moving everything into DOB NOW for years, one function at a time. This one is worth noting not because it affects most readers today, but because of where it points.
What moved
The Department announced it in two stages. First a notice that the 2025 Electrical Code would launch in DOB NOW: Build and that a new inspections module was coming: COMING SOON: Launch of 2025 New York City Electrical Code and New Inspections Plus Module in DOB NOW. Then the confirmation, in a notice dated June 8, 2026: Follow-up 1: Launch of NEW DOB NOW: Inspections Plus Module. Beginning June 29, 2026, requests for Electrical Development Inspections are submitted and managed in the new DOB NOW: Inspections Plus module instead of in DOB NOW: Inspections.
So the scope today is narrow and specific: electrical development inspections.
What did not move
Special inspections did not move. The TR1 categories on your permit, the agency that performs them, the reports that get filed — all unchanged by this.
It is worth being plain about that, because "Inspections Plus" sounds like it covers everything and it does not. If you are a general contractor scheduling concrete, masonry, soils or steel inspections, nothing about your process changed on June 29.
The distinction between the inspections the city performs and the inspections a special inspection agency performs is the one we set out in special inspection versus DOB inspection: who checks what. Inspections Plus sits on the city's side of that line.
Why it is worth knowing anyway
Three reasons.
Names that look alike cause mistakes. DOB NOW: Inspections and DOB NOW: Inspections Plus will sit in the same menu for a long time. A request filed in the old place for a function that has moved does not fail loudly; it sits.
The 2025 Electrical Code came with it. Electrical filings in DOB NOW: Build gained new questions and requirements at the same date. A job with an electrical scope met both changes at once.
Modules rarely stay single-purpose. The Department said Inspections Plus launches "starting with electrical inspections". That phrasing is not accidental, and it is the reason this belongs on a watch list rather than in a drawer. This is the same pattern as licensing moving into DOB NOW: one function first, the rest later.
What to do
- If your job has an electrical scope, check where the inspection request is being made. Two modules, similar names.
- Tell whoever schedules inspections on your team, which is often not the person who reads service notices.
- Do not assume your special inspections have changed. They have not.
- Watch for the next function to move. The wording suggests electrical is the first and not the last.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly moved to Inspections Plus?
Requests for Electrical Development Inspections, from June 29, 2026.
Have special inspections moved?
No. The TR1 categories and the agencies that perform them are unaffected.
Why are there two inspections modules?
The Department launched Inspections Plus as a new module, starting with electrical inspections, alongside the 2025 Electrical Code in DOB NOW: Build.
Does this change anything for a general contractor with no electrical scope?
Not today. It is worth knowing because of where the Department has said it is heading.
Where can I read the notices?
On the Department's service updates page, and both links are in the first section of this article.
Conclusion
A narrow change with a wide hint. Electrical inspection requests moved; nothing else did. But a module called "Inspections Plus" that launched "starting with electrical" is not going to stay that way, and the cheapest time to learn where a request goes is before the request is urgent.
Written by the engineers and laboratory technicians of Metric Consulting and Inspection, a Class 1 special inspection agency with a DOB-licensed concrete testing laboratory in Hicksville, New York, serving NYC construction since 2003.