Permitting pathway and cost exposure review

What the review answers

Before you commit design money, you need to know what has to be permitted and what could cost more than planned. This review is the part of our site feasibility review and site assessment that answers both. It is a decision-grade screen, not a design.

When you need it

• Before closing, or before you award design.
• When a site has more than one agency in its path: a city or county, TxDOT, TCEQ, a floodplain administrator or a fire code official.
• When you are choosing among several sites.

What we do

1. Desktop diligence first. Jurisdiction and ETJ, flood zones, soils, wetlands and streams, drainage, road frontage authority, and the utility path.
2. Walk the site. One walk against a field checklist, with each item marked Verified, Flag or Open and GPS-tagged photos.
3. Build the permit matrix. Every permit, with its agency, its trigger, its typical duration and its fee.
4. Set the critical path. We start the longest clock first, so nothing waits on something that could have started earlier.
5. Rank the cost exposures. For each abnormal condition we find, a desktop order-of-magnitude range, its quantity basis, and what would confirm or remove it.

What you get

• The permit matrix and the critical path.
• A risk register and a cost table, ranked.
• Our recommendations, including the survey, geotechnical or wetland work still needed, and in what order.
• All of it in a site assessment report sealed by a Texas professional engineer.

What affects time and cost

The draft report reaches you within 3 business days after the site walk and receipt of your site information, and the final follows one round of your comments. Scheduling the walk and agency responses are outside that clock. The durations in the matrix are typical, not promises: each agency sets its own review time.

The cost ranges are not an opinion of probable construction cost. They tell you which conditions to price, such as a water tank or hydrant a fire code official may require, before you commit.

Each site is a fixed fee, credited toward the permitting scope if you proceed with us. A multi-site program gets portfolio pricing, sequenced by geography.