Permit Plans in Fort Lauderdale, FL: Sets That Clear LauderBuild the First Pass
HB Design and Engineering produces complete permit plans built for Broward County's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone and the City of Fort Lauderdale's digital review, so your set clears LauderBuild the first time instead of coming back with a comment letter. Architecture, structural, and MEP arrive coordinated in one package.
What Broward review actually demands
Fort Lauderdale runs every submittal through LauderBuild, its Accela-based portal, and no longer takes paper. Because all of Broward sits inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, a permit set is incomplete without 170 mph wind-load documentation, a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA) or Florida Product Approval on the windows, doors, and roofing, and, on most lots near the Intracoastal and the beach, flood elevation built to the city's two-foot freeboard above Base Flood Elevation. Miss any of it and the 30-day review clock restarts. We fold all of it in before the set is uploaded.
The Lauderbuild Process
What You Get
A complete, code-compliant set under the Florida Building Code 8th Edition (2023), formatted for clean LauderBuild upload
170 mph HVHZ wind-load calculations with NOA or Florida Product Approval references on every envelope component
Flood-zone compliance and freeboard elevation for coastal AE and VE properties
Comment responses and resubmittals included, handled by the professional of record
Why sets bounce in Broward
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Missing or mismatched product approvals on HVHZ envelope components
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Wind-load documentation that does not match the drawings
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An incomplete package that restarts the review clock
Who we work with
Developers, general contractors, and builders permitting anything from Las Olas tenant build-outs to multifamily and mixed-use in Flagler Village and the downtown corridor.
How It Works
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Send us your drawings and scope.
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We assemble the coordinated set with the wind, product-approval, and flood documentation Broward requires.
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We prepare and submit through LauderBuild.
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We answer Building Services Division comments and resubmit through approval.
Questions we get
The three most common reasons are an incomplete package, missing Miami-Dade NOA or Florida Product Approval on HVHZ envelope components, and wind-load documentation that does not match the drawings. Every comment letter restarts the city's review clock, so we assemble each set with the product approvals, wind calcs, and flood details already in place.
Yes. Architecture, structural, and MEP are drawn in-house and reconciled against each other before submittal, so the sheets agree. Conflict between separately hired consultants is the most common reason a Broward set loops through review, and coordinating in one office closes that gap.
Break ground from a set that holds together.
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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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