New Construction Plans in Orlando, FL: Ground-Up Sets From Soil Report to Sealed Permit
HB Design and Engineering produces complete ground-up plan sets for Orlando developers and builders, with architecture, structural, and MEP designed, engineered, and taken through permitting under one roof. On inland Central Florida ground, that set starts with the soil.
Start with the ground
Ground-up work in Orlando lives or dies on the foundation, and the ground here is specific. The metro sits on sandy uplands and poorly drained flatwoods over karst limestone with a seasonally high water table, inside a cover-subsidence sinkhole zone, so settlement and subsurface voids are real design inputs on a new build. There is no coastal storm surge and no HVHZ, so design wind runs lower than the coast, roughly 130 to 140 mph under ASCE 7-22, which changes the envelope and the cost basis. We design the foundation to your geotechnical report for the specific Orange County lot before the structure goes on top of it, then carry that through architecture, MEP, and site work into one permittable set. Get the survey and soil report in hand first, and the rest of the set holds together.
What a complete ground-up set includes
Design:
architectural plans and elevations coordinated with the structure and the site
Engineering:
PE-sealed structural with a foundation matched to your soil report and ASCE 7-22 wind design
MEP:
mechanical, electrical, and plumbing reconciled against the structure before submission
Permitting:
a complete package assembled for the Orlando Digital Permits (ProjectDox) portal, plus flood documentation where the lot requires it
How It Works
Questions we get
Because the ground drives everything above it. Karst limestone and a high water table in a sinkhole-prone zone mean the foundation has to be designed to a site-specific geotechnical report before the structure, MEP, or site work can be finalized. Starting there keeps a ground-up set from unraveling at review or in the field.
The City reviews new residential construction in roughly 4 to 8 weeks and large-scale commercial new construction in 8 to 12 weeks. Because every discipline is coordinated before submission, our sets tend to clear without the multi-cycle resubmittals that stretch most new-construction timelines, and a private provider can compress the queue when the schedule demands it.
Serving:
Orlando, Orange County, and Central Florida, including Winter Garden, Lake Nona area communities, Kissimmee, St. Cloud, and Apopka.
Break ground in Orlando from a set that holds together
Call (727) 320-2361 and start with a foundation designed for the ground you are actually building on.
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