Legal on paper, not just built.

Two kinds of people call about permits here. The first is planning a real project and wants it filed properly from day one. The second already has the problem. A lender pulls the record on a Bermuda Riviera ranch and finds a reroof from 2003 with no final inspection. A Florida room off Bayview Drive was closed in and air-conditioned by an owner three deeds back. Jalousies became sliders in Coral Ridge Isles one summer, unpermitted. A lift went in behind a Sunrise Intracoastal house because the barge arrived and the paperwork never did.

Coral Ridge is inside Fort Lauderdale city limits, so the file opens at the Development Services Department, goes to its Building Services Division for review, and moves through the LauderBuild portal. Broward then adds its own layer on top: the county Board of Rules and Appeals maintains the local amendments to the Florida Building Code, certifies the plans examiners and inspectors assigned to your job, and issues the interpretations that settle disputes. Nothing in the building envelope clears review without approval documentation valid in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, installation details included. Bay Colony and Sunrise Intracoastal add association review on a separate clock.

PGX Builders Group is a licensed general contractor, not a permit expediting service, so the name on the application is the name that answers for the work. Where a submittal needs an architect, an engineer or a surveyor, we bring one in and coordinate the set. Plan review comments get answered once, properly, instead of bouncing back three times. A supervisor is on site when the inspector arrives. Across more than twenty years here and 150-plus remodels and additions, all of them permitted and inspected, the expensive failures we have watched people inherit were almost never structural. They were clerical, and they waited.