A Permit Expediter’s Guide to Austin, TX

Austin, Texas: a place you can find amazing barbeque, fantastic live bands, and a notoriously complicated permitting process. In 2015, Zucker Systems issued a report detailing Austin’s weaknesses in their planning and building department. They go into detail the exorbitantly high costs and wait time that Austin business owners must suffer through just to receive a building permit. For a commercial project, it is estimated that time to complete zoning and permitting could be 12 to 14 months. This puts a large strain, both in time and money, on potential businesses delayed in opening. While Austin has tried to offer …

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Nov 7, 2019 By Bridget Foley

A Day in the Life of a Permit Expediter

A Permit Expediter never has a dull day, especially when he or she is in the field, traveling to and between various city departments to make sure that your company’s permits are processed as quickly as possible. Since the everyday work activities of Permit Expediters can be a mystery to many, even those in the design/construction industry, we at Permit Advisors have decided to demystify the permit expediting conundrum. To uncover the everyday duties of a Permit Expediter, we spent the day with Craig Plezia, a Senior Project Manager at Permit Advisors. With a background in Architecture and Building Design, …

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Feb 5, 2019 By Bridget Foley

Plan Sets and Drawings: What’s Needed for Submittals?

A couple weeks ago, we wrote about how attention to detail can speed up your permit process. In the article, we mentioned that applicants must be prepared to submit several sets of plan drawings so that the sets can be allocated to different departments for review. Let’s discuss this further – what are the different types of plan sets and when are they required? While the types of plan sets vary based on a project’s scope of work, the most common types include architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and civil. Architectural Plan Sets When applying for a building permit or …

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Oct 1, 2018 By admin

Attention to Detail and How it Can Speed up Your Permit Process

If you work in the construction industry, you know that time is money. Architects and Construction Managers are in a race to meet permitting deadlines so that they can avoid delays in construction start-dates and grand openings. With the mad dash to submit project plans for permit approval, details are easily overlooked. Permit applicants with missing plan sets, signatures, and other criteria are typically rejected by jurisdictions and required to come back and submit their plans again. To reduce permit delays caused by re-submittals, we recommend paying close attention to detail. What items do we look at? Wet vs. Electronic …

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Sep 12, 2018 By admin