DOB Leads · New York City

Find NYC mechanical work before it goes out to bid

MEPSub reads New York City’s open building data — DOB NOW filings and permits, violations, HPD heat complaints and Local Law 97 energy limits — and turns it into a ranked list of jobs and building owners worth calling. Right inside MEPSub, one click from a lead.

Six ways to find work

Every public record that means a mechanical job

Each list is filtered to your trades and boroughs, scored, and linked to the people behind it.

Before the award

DOB NOW filings with HVAC, plumbing, sprinkler or boiler work and no permit pulled for your trade yet — scored, one card per job, with the owner, engineer of record and expediter.

Violations

Open DOB and ECB violations sorted by trade, so a building that has to fix its boiler, gas piping or plumbing shows up as a job — missed inspection filings on their own list.

Heat & hot water

HPD violations and this month’s complaints for no heat, no hot water, gas shut-offs and plumbing — with the managing agent registered with HPD and the last boiler permit.

LL97 energy

Buildings of 25,000 sq ft and up that are over their Local Law 97 limit, estimated from LL84 benchmarking with the official limits — fuel mix, owner of record and the yearly fine from 2030.

Who won

Lost a bid on an NYC address? It is watched for 18 months, and the GC and trade permittees that show up are listed — likeliest job first.

People

Leaderboards of engineers, GCs and competitors by the work they file and win, so you know who to know.

What it finds

One day of NYC data

A real snapshot from October 14, 2026 — HVAC, plumbing and boiler filters, all five boroughs.

2,475jobs before the award406 moved a stage that week
3,076open violationsfor HVAC, plumbing and boilers
9,571buildings with heat or hot-water issuesopen HPD heat, hot water and gas violations
19,763buildings over the 2030 LL97 limitabout $1.1B a year in fines
From record to lead

Open it in the morning. Call before lunch.

The overview shows every list at a glance and picks the jobs worth a call today. One click turns a record into a MEPSub lead — with the job, the owner and the contact details — and it flows into an estimate and a proposal like any other lead.

  • A tile per list with open counts and what is new this week
  • “Worth a call today” — the top jobs from every list on one screen
  • Phone, email and website for the businesses behind the records
  • Create lead, Not interested and owner do-not-contact in one click
  • Filters by trade and borough, cards or table view
  • Daily digest of what changed
Worth a call today
Before the awardBoiler replacement · Bronx · filed, no plumbing permit yet
Heat & hot water42-unit building · 3 open “no heat” violations · managing agent on file
ViolationsGas piping · ECB violation open 38 days
LL97210,000 sq ft office · over the 2030 limit · est. fine $186k/yr

Illustrative rows — your list shows real NYC records for your trades.

GC & owner risk

Before you bid or sign, look up the general contractor or the building owner in the same NYC records: open violations, fines and how their jobs have gone. A second add-on that sits next to DOB Leads.

Built for NYC contractors

DOB Leads works inside MEPSub, so the job you find becomes the estimate, the proposal, the project and the invoice without re-typing. Available as an add-on — contact us to switch it on.

Questions, answered

Where does the data come from?

From NYC Open Data: DOB NOW job filings and permits, DOB/ECB and DOB violations, HPD violations, complaints and registration contacts, LL84 energy benchmarking and PLUTO. MEPSub syncs it on a schedule and shows when each dataset was last updated.

Which trades does it cover?

HVAC, plumbing, sprinkler and boiler work are flagged on filings, permits and violations. You choose your trades and boroughs in the filters.

Is it only for New York City?

Yes, today it covers the five boroughs. Other cities and New Jersey are on the list for later.

How do I get it?

DOB Leads and GC & owner risk are add-ons to your MEPSub workspace. Contact us and we will switch them on for your company.

What happens when I call a lead?

Create lead turns the record into a MEPSub lead with the job, the owner and the contact details, so it flows into an estimate, a proposal and the job like any other lead.

Call the job before the bid list goes out

DOB Leads is an add-on for NYC contractors on MEPSub. Tell us your trades and boroughs and we will switch it on for your company.

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