Between the Department of Buildings, the Fire Department, the Environmental Control Board, and the zoning authorities, a permit passes through more hands than most people expect. An expediter is the interpreter between your design team and the agencies.
Not a fixer. An interpreter.
What delays a permit
- Zoning envelopes that conflict with what was drawn.
- Missing energy or egress documentation.
- Occupancy or use group misclassified.
- Prior violations on the property nobody checked for.
Most rejections are documentation problems rather than design problems. That is good news, because documentation problems are preventable.
How we file
Assessment and zoning validation. Does this need a variance or a special permit? Better to know now.
Document preparation. PW1 forms, TR1 and TR8, environmental review.
Submission coordination through DOB NOW, which is exacting about metadata.
Response to objections, answered with code citations rather than argument.
Sign-off support, through to the Temporary Certificate of Occupancy.
By property type
Residential brings zoning lot merges and occupancy conversions. Commercial brings fire protection and mixed-use classification. High-rise and institutional bring ADA, FDNY inspections, and structural safety review.
Three things people believe that are not true
That an expediter can bypass DOB rules. No one can. What we do is remove the reasons DOB says no.
That anyone can file online. DOB NOW is a filing system, not a form. It demands technical precision.
That expediting is only for large projects. The small ones stall for exactly the same reasons.
Why us
We coordinate with DOB, FDNY, and DEP, and we handle the CCD1 and ZRD1 reconsiderations and variance applications that a filing turns up, rather than handing them back to you.