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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Back to talk permitting and pre construction work.  Time got away from me--meant to post this weeks ago.  I'm hoping others find this informative, or interesting, or weigh in with their own experience.  After we engaged the architect, we got her recommendations on an engineer.  We interviewed a couple, but went with her experience.  As a non-engineer, I found it really hard to know who was good. Any engineers out there--few good blog posts or podcasts on engineering work would be really great content.  if we had gone with a design-build firm, with everything handled in house, they would have done all of this for us.  Of course, there is an additional cost involved in that.

Here are a few of the items that the engineering firm handled:
Boundary/Site Topography survey 
Stormwater management plan
Site grading plan
Tree planting plan
Sediment management plan

Engineers will also handle house stake out, brick points, wall check, final house location, grading check and certifications.
While the final bill isn't in yet, we should be right at 15K for everything listed above.  The hourly rates for this ranged between 150/hr for the Principal & Sr Engineer, to 80/hour for the CAD professional, and 65/hour for admin.

The engineer + architect are two pillar who got us through the permitting process.  Which turned into a real problem. Will add that detail in the next few posts.

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