Commercial permit resources
Review the development and building permit process to help navigate application requirements.
Development permits
Building permits
- Construct new and/or additions - Part 3 buildings (Building Design Summary)
- Construct new and/or additions - Part 9 buildings
- Interior and/or exterior alterations and change of use - Part 3/9 buildings (Commercial Alteration Design Summary)
- Optional Professional Certificate Program (OPCP)
- OPCP certificate for architectural, structural and mechanical
- OPCP certificate for electrical
- OPCP property owner(s) statement
- Demolition/removal permit application form
- Tanks/fuel dispensing stations - installations
- Above ground tank installation building permit application form
- Above ground tank installation checklist
- Above ground installation of storage tank inside building checklist
- Under ground tank installation building permit application form
- Work completion certificate
- Fuel dispensing station with canopy building permit application form
- Tank removals
- Above ground/under ground tank removal building permit application form
- Certificate of tank destruction
- Other documents
- Architectural design summary
- Structural design summary
- Mechanical design summary
- Mechanical design summary - shell only
- Electrical design summary
- Manitoba energy code for buildings declaration
- Owner statement
- Required professional designer's certificate
- Electromagnetic locks checklist
- Electrical patient care areas declaration
- Manitoba early learning and child care design summary
- Photoluminescent exit signs checklist
- Electrical request for code deviation
- Richardson Report
- Declaration form for building permit application
- Declaration form for development permit exemption
Combined development/building permits
- Signs
- Signs - development and/or building permit application form
- Signs - development and building permit sample drawings
- Letter of authorization - digital signs
- Free-standing signs - structural requirements
- Emergency residential shelters - development and/or building permit application form
- Special events and temporary use - development and/or building permit application form
- Other documents
Trade permits
Other resources
- Wording for professional certification letters:
- Final occupancy
- Interim occupancy
- No occupancy
- Required wording for the final Manitoba Energy Code for Buildings (MECB) certificate of compliance
- Encroachment application
- Seasonal & permanent patios (registration program)
- Barrier-free ramps - code requirements for barrier-free ramps
- Assembly occupant loads - code requirements for spaces regularly used for a gathering of people
- Housing conversion - guidelines for the conversion of a house to commercial use
Note: Confirm addressing requirements for any new construction by emailing PropertyAddressing@winnipeg.ca