Permitting

In Tampa Bay, permitting is frequently the critical path, and it is almost never the line item that owners plan around. Jurisdictions differ, review cycles differ, and a project that touches a right-of-way, a utility, a water management district, or an existing structure can be waiting on several approvals that do not run in parallel by default. Treating the permit as paperwork at the end of design is how a schedule loses a season.

We work out who needs which stamp, in what order, and what the drawings still owe the reviewer before submittal. That includes identifying the approvals that gate other approvals, the ones that expire, and the ones that require a separate consultant's report. Where a comment comes back, the goal is to answer it completely the first time — resubmittals are expensive in weeks, not dollars.

Permits are then scheduled with the rest of the work. Buyout, long-lead procurement, mobilization, and inspection hold points are sequenced against realistic review times rather than optimistic ones, and the schedule shows what actually cannot start until a specific approval lands. Owners get to see the dependency instead of being told about it after the fact.

Permitting coordination is part of construction management and project management, and it runs alongside design-build work as well. We do not certify or stamp drawings; we coordinate the professionals who do, and we keep the approval path on the schedule.