Gary Fisher is the Building Official for the County of Goochland, Virginia. His responsibilities include handling day-to-day administration of the county’s Department of Building Inspection, including the supervision of 7 employees, assisting with commercial plan review and inspection audits, assisting permit technicians with complex incoming permit applications, providing code interpretations, overseeing plan of development plan review, establishing written policies and procedures, assisting with fire marshal duties and providing technical related assistance to other personnel within the Department of Community Development. Prior to joining the County of Goodland, Gary was a Code Consultant and conducted plan reviews, field inspections and provided expert testimony for a variety of commercial building. He has reviewed large complex industrial facilities such as an ethanol plant, high-rise buildings, and one million square foot warehousing facilities providing in depth plan review comments, detailed inspection reports and valuable expert insight and interpretation of the ICC Codes.

He holds several ICC Certifications including ICC Certified Master Code Professional, ICC Certified Fire Code Official, ICC Certified Mechanical Code Official, ICC Certified Plumbing Code Official and ICC Certified Building Code Official.