Project Management Across Southeast Michigan

Michigan residential construction is governed by state adopted codes, but they are administered locally. The building department that reviews a Highland Township project is not the one reviewing an Ann Arbor project, and the two do not always want the same documentation, the same drawing detail or the same inspection sequence.

Practical consequences worth knowing before you plan a schedule:

• Review timelines differ by jurisdiction and by season. Spring and early summer are slower nearly everywhere.
• Structural changes, additions and new construction usually require drawings and sometimes engineering. Cosmetic work usually does not.
• Electrical, plumbing and mechanical work generally carry their own permits and inspections separate from the building permit.
• Historic districts, lake frontage, wetlands and septic systems each add a review layer that has to be planned around, not discovered later.
• Homeowners associations are separate from municipal review and have their own approval timelines for exterior work.

Praxis Building Group handles permitting as part of preconstruction rather than treating it as paperwork at the end. That is the stage where a schedule either becomes realistic or does not.