One addressee
Application, queries and decision all pass through the same authority. Nothing travels back and forth between a city and a district.
Authorised to submit building documents in North Rhine-Westphalia
Building applications in Mönchengladbach, ready for the city to review
Mönchengladbach is an independent city, so your application does not go to a district administration but to the city building authority itself. We assemble the documents so that the authority can start reviewing rather than start asking.
The kind of housing going up at the edge of the Mönchengladbach districts
- Project
- New build, extension, conversion, change of use
- Authority
- Building authority of the City of Mönchengladbach
- From one office
- Drawings, description, structure, thermal performance
- Signature
- Authorised to submit in NRW, V3693
One city, one building authority
In the towns nearby a district administration still sits between the client and the permission. In Mönchengladbach it does not. As an independent city it runs its own lower building authority, and that changes one thing above all: there is exactly one place where your file arrives and is reviewed.
Local rules decide early
The development plan, design requirements and separation distances decide more about your project than any drawing does. We read them before the design begins.
Complete beats fast
A file without gaps gets reviewed. A file with gaps waits, and the waiting is the most expensive part of the whole procedure.
NoteWhat that office wants to see is the same across North Rhine-Westphalia. How complete it arrives decides whether the review runs or waits for a request for more.
What belongs in the application
These are the documents a building authority in North Rhine-Westphalia usually asks for. Which of them your project actually needs depends on its type, size and location, and is settled in the first conversation.
Application form
The official form, filled in completely and signed by the client and the author of the design.
Official site plan
From the land registry office or a surveyor, showing the parcel, the boundaries, the distances and the levels.
Building drawings
Plans, sections and elevations at the required scale, dimensioned and legibly labelled.
Building description
Construction, materials and fittings in exactly the form the official document requires.
Areas and volume
Floor areas and gross volume, from which the authority works out its fee.
Structural evidence
The structural design with a member layout and a calculation that can be checked, from the same office as the drawings.
Thermal performance
The calculation for the building envelope, matched to the heating and ventilation that is planned.
Drainage and parking
Foul and surface water up to the public connection, plus the number and position of the parking spaces.
NoteSpecial buildings, sites outside the built up area and changes of use call for further documents. You hear which ones beforehand, not from a request for more information.
From the first conversation to the decision
Six steps, in this order. At every point you know what is happening, what we need from you and what comes next.
Conversation and groundwork
Project, plot and timing. We look at what the development plan allows and say whether a preliminary enquiry is the cheaper route.
Design
Plans, sections and elevations take shape and are agreed with you. Changes are still quick and cheap at this stage.
Submission drawings
The design becomes drawings at the required scale, together with the building description, the floor areas and the volume.
Evidence
Structure and thermal performance are calculated and added as checkable documents, matched to exactly these drawings.
Submission
The file is checked for completeness, signed and lodged with the building authority of the City of Mönchengladbach.
Queries and decision
If more is asked for, we answer and submit it until the decision arrives. You do not have to go to the office yourself.
Not sure which step your project is at? Describe it briefly and we will place it for you.
Go to the enquiryYour project, briefly described
Three details are enough for a call back: your name, a telephone number and a few sentences about the project. Everything else we settle by phone.
- Telephone
- +49 2432 907 93 00
- info@ks-ingenieur.de
- Office address
- Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
- Main website
- ks-ingenieur.de
- Call back
- On working days, usually the same day or the next.
NoteThe enquiry commits you to nothing. You get an assessment of which documents are needed and, if you want, a quotation under the HOAI fee scale.
What the practice takes on
Design, drawing and calculation all happen in one place. That is why the plan, the structure and the thermal calculation agree with one another instead of contradicting each other during the review.
Design
Detached houses and apartment buildings, from the first sketch to the finished submission documents.
Application documents
Drawings, building description, calculations and forms, assembled in full and signed.
Preliminary enquiry
Settles the decisive question about the plot before the full application costs work and fees.
Structural design
Calculations, member layouts and construction drawings, for the evidence now and for the site later.
Thermal performance
The calculation for the building envelope, worked out for the heating and ventilation that is planned.
Surveying the existing
Measuring and digitising existing buildings where drawings are missing or no longer match what was built.
Not sure which of these your project needs? Ask us, the assessment costs nothing.
Go to the enquirySix pictures from the procedure
From the plot through the drawing and the stamp to the finished house. Click a picture to see it large.
NoteThese are illustrative pictures of the work described, not photographs of individual projects.
Mönchengladbach, district by district
The practice sits in Wassenberg on the Lower Rhine and works across the whole city of Mönchengladbach: from Rheydt and Odenkirchen through Wickrath and Giesenkirchen to Rheindahlen, Hardt and Venn.
City districts we submit for
- Mönchengladbach
- Rheydt
- Odenkirchen
- Wickrath
- Rheindahlen
- Giesenkirchen
- Neuwerk
- Hardt
- Eicken
- Holt
- Venn
- Hehn
- Bonnenbroich
And the surrounding towns
- Korschenbroich
- Jüchen
- Viersen
- Willich
- Schwalmtal
- Niederkrüchten
- Wegberg
- Erkelenz
- City
- Mönchengladbach
- Administration
- An independent city with its own building authority
- Practice
- Leichweg 3, 41849 Wassenberg
- Telephone
- +49 2432 907 93 00
NoteWhat is approved without difficulty in one district can fail on a design requirement in the next. So we always read the planning rules for your plot rather than for the city in general.
Common questions about the building application
What clients in Mönchengladbach most often want to know before they appoint a practice.
Who receives my building application in Mönchengladbach?
The lower building authority of the City of Mönchengladbach. Because the city is independent of any district, it runs that authority itself, so no district administration is involved. The application is lodged by the author of the design together with you as the client.
Does my project need a building application at all?
That depends on size, use and location. Some work needs no permission, some runs through a simplified procedure and some needs the full application. Describe the project in two sentences and we will place it for you.
Who is allowed to sign a building application?
For most projects the building regulations require an author of the design who is authorised to submit building documents. This practice holds that authorisation in North Rhine-Westphalia under the reference V3693.
How long does the procedure take?
The work in the office can be planned; the review at the authority only partly. We give a realistic frame at the start and say early if something slips. A complete file is the biggest lever you hold yourself.
What does a building application cost?
The fee for design and calculations follows the HOAI fee scale and depends on the scope. The city charges its own fees on top, worked out from floor area and volume. You get a quotation with the scope of work beforehand.
What do you need from me?
Ideally proof of ownership with the parcel number, a current site plan and your ideas for the building. If any of that is missing we tell you where to get it.
Do you also do the structural design?
Yes. The structural evidence, the member layout and the construction drawings come from the same office. The drawing and the calculation therefore agree, and queries from the checking engineer go through one contact.
Do you stay involved once building starts?
If you wish we take on site management or construction supervision in building and structural engineering. You tell us how far that involvement should go.