New Construction Plans in St. Petersburg: One Coordinated Set From Concept to Permit
HB Design and Engineering draws ground-up plans for St. Petersburg developers and builders, with architecture, structural, and MEP under one roof and permitting run by the engineer of record. You break ground from a set that was reconciled in house before it reached the city.
Design, Engineering, and Permitting in One Set
Design
Architecture, structural, and MEP are drawn by one team so the sheets agree before submittal.
Engineering
ASCE 7-22 wind loads, a continuous load path, and flood-zone elevation details are built into the plans. Foundations are engineered for St. Petersburg's sandy soil, high water table, and AE/VE flood zones.
Permitting
The coordinated set is filed and shepherded through the City's ePlan review by the engineer of record.
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Why Downtown and Infill Raise the Bar
St. Petersburg is in a dense building cycle. The downtown mid-rise and multifamily pipeline and the Gas Plant District redevelopment around Tropicana Field have the city's reviewers seeing ambitious work daily, and they expect a complete, code-compliant set. On the infill side, historic districts like Old Northeast, Kenwood, and the Grand Central District put new developer product next to older building stock under tighter review. We are headquartered here, so we design each set to the specific lot, flood elevation, and district context from the first sheet.
Who we work with
Developers, general contractors, and builders putting up single-family infill, townhomes, multifamily, and mixed-use across the peninsula.
How It Works
01 Start With Your Project Information
We start from your survey, soil report, and program to understand the site, project scope, and design requirements.
02 Coordinate the Full Set
We coordinate architecture, structural, and MEP into one set and confirm flood zone and setback requirements.
03 Value-Engineer the Project
We value-engineer the structure and systems against your budget while maintaining code compliance and required performance.
04 Submit and Respond
We file the coordinated set through ePlan and answer review comments as engineer of record.
Questions We Get
Yes. Architecture, structural, and MEP are all in house, so the set is coordinated before it reaches the City of St. Petersburg rather than reconciled after the fact. One engineer of record owns the project, so there is no finger-pointing between separate consultants when a field condition changes.
Yes. New construction and major infill in districts like Kenwood and Old Northeast have to respect local preservation guidelines on scale and massing while meeting current Florida Building Code, wind, and flood requirements. We design the set to clear both the district review and the building permit.
Break ground from a set that holds together.
Call to scope your St. Petersburg build.
Serving: St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, including Historic Kenwood, Historic Old Northeast, the Grand Central and EDGE Districts, Snell Isle, Shore Acres, and downtown.
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