The other day, I stepped into a meeting at the architect’s office introducing the project to the third party code plan reviewer, who used to be a plans examiner at a local city. The architect’s code consultant had just given notice to join a different jurisdiction for a plans examiner position.
I had worked with both of them when reviewing local amendments for the most recent code cycle, and in the past half year we have all changed positions.
This industry is much more close knit than it may appear, even when the individuals are constantly in flux.