Architectural set
Plans, elevations, sections, schedules, details, reflected ceiling information and coordinated design intent.
Luxury Homes · Project Delivery
Turn the design into coordinated information that can be approved and built.
Construction documents and permitting for custom homes, renovations and development work, connecting architectural intent with consultants, codes, agency responses and field use.
The idea
The drawing set is where ambition accepts responsibility.
Construction documents must do more than describe appearance. They coordinate dimensions, assemblies, systems, consultant information, life-safety requirements and the details needed for agency review and construction.
Apel Design develops and tracks that information with the project team, responding to review comments and maintaining the design thread as technical resolution increases.
Knowledge + experience
Information organized for approval and execution.
The exact drawing and consultant scope follows the project, jurisdiction and professional agreements.
Consultant alignment
Structural, civil, MEP, energy, landscape, pool and specialty information coordinated around current documents.
Code + agency path
Applicable code research, planning conditions, application requirements and submittal milestones tracked.
Plan-check responses
Agency comments organized, assigned, answered and incorporated into the coordinated set.
Design continuity
Material, façade, opening, lighting and interior decisions maintained as technical information develops.
Issued information
Permit, pricing, construction and revision sets clearly identified so the team can work from current documents.
Selected work
Technical resolution protects the finished work.
Architecture gains credibility when the detail, consultant coordination and built result remain connected.
The path
Develop, coordinate, submit and respond.
Develop
Advance the architecture from approved direction into dimensions, assemblies, schedules and details.
Align
Coordinate disciplines, responsibilities, required studies and conflicts across the consultant team.
Submit
Prepare the architectural package for the applicable planning, building and supplemental review path.
Respond
Address agency comments and keep the approved information aligned with design and construction decisions.
Questions
Useful clarity before the first conversation.
Does a permit set include every construction detail?
The required content depends on the project, agency and agreement. Permit information and construction information overlap, but pricing, fabrication and field execution may require additional development and coordination.
Can Apel Design coordinate planning and building review?
Yes. The practice has experience preparing applications and exhibits, coordinating consultants, tracking submittals and responding to agency review comments.
Who provides architectural services?
Michael B. Maclaren, AIA, is the architect of record. Architectural services are performed in association with him under the applicable project agreement.
One continuous thread
These do not happen in isolation.
Site engineering, approvals, documentation and building systems all constrain each other. On our projects they are resolved together, by one team, rather than handed between consultants.
Documents that get built
Drawings carried into the field.
Every image below is from an Apel Design project.