Permits and Codes
How Time-Blocking Changed How I Review Permits
For most of my nine years reviewing building permit applications for a county office, I worked the way I suspect most people in...
Permits and code compliance writer, page 2 of 3
Faye spent nine years reviewing building permit applications for a county office before she got tired of watching good projects stall over paperwork nobody explained clearly. She writes about permits and materials the way she wishes applicants had been told the first time.
Permits and Codes
For most of my nine years reviewing building permit applications for a county office, I worked the way I suspect most people in...
Permits and Codes
Most permit applications I review follow a predictable path.
Permits and Codes
In my nine years reviewing permit applications for the county, the file that stuck with me longest was not a contractor's.
Materials and Specs
Every arched steel building I have ever quoted traces its shape back to a design the United States Navy needed solved in a...
Permits and Codes
Nine years reading permit applications taught me that a contractor's timeline is really a probability estimate dressed up as a...
Materials and Specs
Buyers spend weeks comparing steel gauge and frame spacing, then treat insulation as a checkbox to sort out after the building...