Desk 03 · 3 stories
Trades, Permits & Inspections
The permit counter, the inspection sequence, and the trades whose queues quietly run your project.
Featured guide
Millwork: The Trade That Becomes the Schedule
The bar, the banquettes, the host stand, the shelving: custom millwork is the trade that defines a hospitality room and, mismanaged, defines its schedule too. Field notes on the shop-drawing loop, field measurement, finishing time, and the install that everything else waits for.
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The complete desk
All Trades, Permits & Inspections guides
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Playbook
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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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.
