House Plan Sealing
Purchased plans engineered for your lot and sealed for Georgia permit submission — foundation, framing, bracing, and connections.
Learn more →Structural Engineer Licensed in Georgia
Georgia just leapfrogged the entire Southeast: on January 1, 2026 the state adopted the 2024 International Residential Code with Georgia amendments — the most current residential code cycle in the country. That's genuinely good for homeowners, but it also means plan sets and framing habits built around older codes now get flagged in review. Oakline designs to the 2024 code natively, and seals residential structural drawings across Georgia remotely.
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What We Do in Georgia
Serving Atlanta and its suburbs, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Athens, Macon, Lake Lanier, and the North Georgia mountains. Every project is personally engineered by Cody Johnston, PE, MBA — one engineer, no hand-offs, and drawings your builder can actually build from.
Foundation Design
Footings, slabs, piers, and walls designed from your site conditions — not a generic detail sheet.
Beam & Framing Design
LVL, steel, and engineered-lumber sizing for renovations, wall removals, and "beam by others" notes on your plans.
Learn more →Additions & ADUs
Structural design that ties new construction into your existing home correctly.
Learn more →Georgia runs the 2024 IRC — the newest code in the nation
Effective January 1, 2026, Georgia enforces the 2024 IRC and 2024 IBC with the 2026 Georgia amendments. Because Georgia is a mandatory-code state for the structural chapters, this applies statewide — Atlanta suburbs, Savannah, Augusta, the mountains — everywhere.
The 2024 IRC references the newest generation of design standards: ASCE 7-22 wind maps, the 2024 National Design Specification for wood, and updated bracing and connection provisions. In practice, that means wind design values shifted across the state, deck and guard provisions tightened, and several framing details that passed under the old code now need engineered justification. A stock plan drawn even three years ago is a code cycle and a half behind what a Georgia reviewer is checking today.
This is where having an engineer who works in the 2024 code daily pays off: we design to the current tables and standards from the start, so your permit review doesn't turn into a round of red-line corrections.
From Savannah wind to mountain snow
Georgia spans three structural climates. The coast — Savannah, Brunswick, the Golden Isles — carries hurricane wind design and wind-borne debris provisions comparable to the Carolinas. Metro Atlanta and the Piedmont are calmer wind country, but red-clay soils, basements, and steep infill lots keep foundation and retaining design front and center. And the North Georgia mountains — Blue Ridge, Blairsville, Clayton — add snow loads and mountainside foundations that flatland framing tables were never written for.
Georgia's growth means a huge share of our work here is sealing purchased house plans for new builds — from Atlanta-exurb subdivisions to lake houses on Lanier and Hartwell. The 2024-code update made that sealing step more valuable, not less: it's the difference between plans that sail through review and plans that bounce.
How Remote Engineering Works
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Send your plans. Upload your plan set through our site — any size, straight to our secure project drive. Cody reviews them personally, for free, and comes back with straight advice and a firm price, usually within a day or two.
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We engineer to the Georgia code. Foundation, framing, bracing, and connections designed for your specific lot — with the governing code edition noted right on the drawings so your reviewer sees it immediately.
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You get sealed drawings. Digitally sealed PDFs under Georgia PE license #PE052555, ready for permit submission — and Cody stays available to answer reviewer or builder questions after delivery. Most plan sealing projects finish within 2 weeks.
Verify the License
Cody Johnston is a licensed Professional Engineer in Georgia — license #PE052555, issued by the Georgia Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Don't take our word for it: verify it with the state board →
Also licensed in six additional states — see all license states.
Georgia Questions, Answered
What building code does Georgia use in 2026?
The 2024 IRC and 2024 IBC with 2026 Georgia amendments, effective January 1, 2026 — currently the most up-to-date state code adoption in the country. It applies statewide.
My house plans were drawn a few years ago. Are they still OK in Georgia?
They'll likely need a structural update. The 2024 IRC uses newer wind maps and design standards than plans drawn to the 2018-era codes. We redesign the structural system to the current code and seal it for your permit submission.
Do you cover North Georgia mountain builds?
Yes — snow loads, steep-slope foundations, and tall walkout basements are exactly the conditions that push a home beyond the prescriptive code and into engineered design. All handled remotely with sealed drawings.
Building in Georgia?
Cody personally reviews your plans — flagging structural issues, finding ways to save on your build, and giving straight advice for the right foundation and framing choices specific for your lot. Free, no obligation, and he can also give you a firm engineering price in a day or two.
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