What is it like when doing a building development project?
Here’s a more detailed look at what it’s like for different phases of a Building Development Project:
Design with Permit Approval Phase
The design phase is more than just engaging the designer / architect for your building development project. This phase focuses on creating plans from conceptual to detailed plans, specifications, and drawings, often involving surveyors, designers / architects, engineers, and many other specialists. The earlier you can involve these professionals, the better for your project. All should be involved in the early stage of the design phase so that they can discuss and agree on the project goal, the requirements and their priorities, the expected measurable rating of the house, etc. as the design requirements. To facilitate a more efficient team work, modern collaborative design tools that facilitate remote meetings should be used. Their inputs can impact the project design which may have dependencies on each other. These inputs not only affect the outlook, as well as functions and features to the newly built buildings, they can also affect the cost, schedule, quality, and the final value of the buildings significantly.
A design brief should be prepared to align all the specialists in order to kick-start the design phase effectively. You should prepare a design brief that includes listing out the condition of satisfaction and your top key requirements with their priorities. This design brief not only helps in selecting the designer and the specialists who will best suit for your project, you would also know how to accept the deliverables from all these professionals.
Typically, the time for this phase will take 3-9 months.
Once the design is completed, the designer will prepare the set of construction plans and information for the building permit submission to the municipality planning department to obtain the necessary permits and approvals. There are different costs associated with the permit approval submission.