North Bend building permits
Department contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for North Bend, Washington.
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Building department
- Address
- 920 SE Cedar Falls Way, North Bend, WA 98045
- Phone
- (425) 888-1211
- Office hours
- Not published on the pages read for this entry — confirm before travelling.
- Website
- Official site
Codes adopted
The State Building Code is in effect in every county and city in Washington, and its minimum performance standards may not be diminished locally. A local amendment that affects single-family or multifamily residential buildings is not effective unless the State Building Code Council approves it; amendments to non-residential provisions carry no such approval requirement.
- International Building Code — NBMC § 15.04.010, and NOTE THAT NO YEAR IS NAMED: "The current edition of the International Building Code, including Appendix E, published by the International Code Council, as adopted and hereafter amended by the State Building Code Council in Chapter 51-50 WAC, is hereby adopted by reference with the following exceptions: excluding Chapter 1."
- International Residential Code — adopted at NBMC Chapter 15.06.
- International Mechanical Code — adopted at NBMC Chapter 15.10.
- Dwelling construction under the Uniform Building Code — NBMC Chapter 15.05, a separate chapter from the IRC.
- NBMC Chapter 15.02, Construction Administrative Code — North Bend's own administrative chapter, which is why Chapter 1 of the IBC is excluded from the adoption.
- RCW 19.27 — the Washington State Building Code, and Chapter 51-50 WAC, the state's amendments to the building code, which North Bend adopts "as adopted and hereafter amended".
Permit types & fees
Building Permit
Required for construction, alteration and repair work in North Bend, under the International Building Code as adopted at NBMC § 15.04.010, with permit procedure coming from NBMC Chapter 15.02 rather than the IBC's own Chapter 1.
See fee scheduleVerify a Contractor Licence
Washington contractors register with the Department of Labor & Industries. Registration is a STATE record; North Bend does not issue it.
See fee schedule
North Bend's permit history isn't searchable here yet
This page covers what the permit requires. What we don't have for North Bend yet is the record of permits actually issued — the history you'd search by street address. That is a gap in our coverage, not a statement about any particular property.
Your email, and the place — never an address. We only use it to tell you when North Bend lands. Privacy.
New residential construction activity
New privately-owned residential construction onlyHousing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).
- Latest month (2026-07)
- 1units
1 buildings · $1.5M valuation
- Trailing 12 months
- 13units
9 of 12 months reported · #25 in Washington coverage by units
- Year to date (2026 YTD through 2026-07)
- 4units
4 buildings · $3.3M valuation
7 month(s) reported to Census
- Full year 2025
- 51units
51 buildings · $30.3M valuation
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-07 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Washington building activity
Tips & gotchas
- THERE IS NO EDITION YEAR IN NORTH BEND'S BUILDING CODE ADOPTION. It takes "the current edition" and follows the state automatically — unusual, and it means the code cannot go stale the way a year-pinned adoption can.
- IBC CHAPTER 1 IS EXCLUDED. Permit procedure, enforcement and appeals come from NBMC Chapter 15.02, the city's own Construction Administrative Code.
- Appendix E is adopted with the building code.
- Residential work has two chapters: NBMC 15.05 (dwelling construction under the Uniform Building Code) and NBMC 15.06 (International Residential Code).
- Fee amounts are not printed here — ask the city for its current schedule.