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You (Likely) Won’t Need a Permit for KitHAUS’s $38K Backyard Studio

Dwell

Since, they’ve shifted their focus to "larger ADU-style modules and smaller, non-permitted studios," Sandonato says. This backyard studio in Seattle was small enough that it didn’t require permitting. The base price on a K3 module is $38,000, plus typically about 15 percent of the final cost to build on site.

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When Do Homeowners Need a Permit for an Addition?

Architecture Ideas

With all the time and effort you’re pouring into this renovation, don’t get caught without the most important thing — a home addition permit. . Additions are designed to add space to your existing lot or building, so they’ll always when do homeowners need a permit for an addition. . Why Do I Need a Permit? How Can I Get One?

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Discretionary Permitting: What Homeowners Need to Know

Santa Cruz Architect

The discretionary permitting process is often used by local governments to ensure that proposed land uses are compatible with existing land uses, and that they do not pose an undue risk to public health, safety, or welfare. as to whether or not the permit should be granted. as to whether or not the permit should be granted.

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Please sire, may I give you free land?

Brandon Donnelly

This is an aerial photo of the construction site at One Delisle : Currently, we are on hold and waiting to pour a number of columns on the ground floor because the city has not yet issued our above-grade building permit. Younger people on the team can’t believe that this is par for the course.

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New York is making rat infestation an issue for construction site managers across the city

Archinect

Among other measures, it will require applicants for certain construction work permits in the city to certify that a licensed exterminator was retained to effectively treat the premises for rodent extermination. The new requirement only applies to job sites in “designated rat mitigation zones” and will take effect in April.

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NYC construction worker fatalities are now at record lows

Archinect

Construction-related deaths are now at their lowest point in the past decade despite an increase in injuries at job sites for the third consecutive year, the reporting showed.

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Herzog & de Meuron's FORUM UZH design moves forward in Zurich

Archinect

Herzog & de Meuron is advancing on the construction of its new FORUM UZH design at the University of Zurich following a permit issuance for the project whose bid was born out of a 2018 international competition.

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