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Hospitality build-out guidance
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Desk 03 · 2 stories

Trades, Permits & Inspections

The permit counter, the inspection sequence, and the trades whose queues quietly run your project.

A colour-rich view of a hospitality build-out, illustrating accessibility is a design input, not an inspection problem
A colour-rich view of a hospitality build-out, illustrating accessibility is a design input, not an inspection problem

Featured guide

Accessibility Is a Design Input, Not an Inspection Problem

Projects that treat accessibility as a code checkbox meet it twice — once as a design constraint they ignored and once as a correction list they funded. A playbook for building it in from day one — clearances, counters, restrooms, routes — and why the retrofit always costs more.

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All Trades, Permits & Inspections guides

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    Field Guide

    Hire a General Contractor, or Run the Trades Yourself?

    Self-managing your build-out looks like saving the GC fee. What you are actually doing is hiring yourself for a full-time trade you have never practiced. An honest decision framework for the most consequential hire of the project.