We draw and file the plans and permits that keep a project legal and moving. Below is what we handle, and when you need it.
The drawn plan showing how a site protects workers, the public, and adjoining property: fencing, sheds, netting, hoisting and loading zones, egress, and fire safety. Governed by Chapter 33 of the NYC Building Code, with site safety requirements set out in BC 3310.
The height of the job decides how the plan is handled. At 7 stories or more than 75 feet, the plan has to be filed with the Department of Buildings and approved before work proceeds. Below that threshold the plan is still required and still has to be on site, but it does not go to DOB for approval. GCs are often caught by one side of this or the other. We handle both.
New construction, conversions, alterations, and facade restorations. Also whenever scope changes on an active site and the plan on file no longer matches conditions on the ground.
Filings for work that occupies or alters the street and sidewalk: lane and roadway closures, sidewalk occupancy, staging, and the drawings DOT requires to grant them.
This includes SCARA filings, the Sidewalk, Curb, & Roadway Application covering work in the public right of way, and vault installations beneath the sidewalk.
Any time construction takes space outside the property line, or cuts into the sidewalk, curb, or roadway. Without the permit the work stops at the property line.
Fire protection plans. As-built documentation of the building’s fire protection systems: sprinklers, fire alarms, standpipes, and fire egress. The record of what is actually installed and where it is.
Letters of no objection. An FDNY determination that a proposed condition does not obstruct fire department access or operations. We prepare the drawings, make the case, and carry the request through to issuance. We file LNOs for construction fencing installed in front of a fire hydrant, hoist waivers on buildings that meet the criteria, and temporary standpipe waivers.
When FDNY needs a record of the fire protection systems in place, or when the site plan puts something where the department would otherwise object and it has to state it has no objection before work proceeds.
Drawings and filings for the temporary structures that protect the public and give crews access to the work: layout, dimensions, clearances, lighting, loading, and pedestrian routing.
Public and overhead protection: construction fences, sidewalk sheds, overhead protection, and engineered enclosure systems. Access and work platforms: pipe scaffolding, pump jack scaffolds, and suspended scaffolds.
Before the structure goes up, and again when it has to be renewed, extended, or reconfigured as the work moves around the building.
The drawings that support a license or access agreement with an adjoining property: exactly what protection is installed, where it sits, what is touched, and for how long. The document both sides negotiate against.
When the work requires entering, protecting, or underpinning a neighboring property, and the owner needs to see precisely what is being proposed before granting access.
The plan for guarding open edges, shafts, and floor openings: perimeter protection, netting, anchorage, and controlled access zones.
On any site with exposure to falls from height, and whenever an inspection turns up a gap in existing protection.
The CCD1 is how you ask the Department to accept a condition that does not fit the standard rule. We prepare the application and the supporting drawings and carry it through to a determination.
Most of what we file are personnel waivers: Site Safety Manager waivers and Construction Superintendent waivers, where two buildings sit on a single construction site and one manager can reasonably cover both rather than staffing each building separately.
When a site has more than one building under a single operation and the staffing requirement, read strictly, would put two managers where one is warranted. The waiver has to be granted before you can staff it that way.
The address, the scope, and what needs to be filed. We come back with the scope of work and a price.
We research the conditions, produce the drawings, and file with the agency. You are not chasing us for status.
We carry the filing through objections and revisions until it clears. Same-day revisions when the clock matters.