Design Services, Drafting Services & Building Permit Services
Mark H Smith Designs Inc. seamlessly integrates design, drafting, and permitting—transforming your vision into a construction-ready plan built on candor, creativity, collaboration, and efficiency.
Design services include:
Designing newly constructed custom single family homes, multi-family homes, or providing alterations to an existing building by designing custom renovations and additions that best meet each project’s goals.
Designing building conversions from single family homes into multiple family homes as legal secondary suites, duplexes, and triplexes.
Designing garden suites, laneway suites, garages, workshops and building conversions into garden suites.
Drafting services include:
Drafting a complete drawings package that is able to obtain building permits for the project.
Coordination and design integration with specialized professionals such as arborists, surveyors, structural and mechanical engineers to complete calculations and prepare reports and specialty drawings required by the building department.
Building permit services include:
Preparation, filing and coordination for applications required by the building department in order to begin construction.
Printing and delivery of a complete set of the permit package after it has been released from the building department and the project is ready to begin construction.
We also can provide additional permit services when required to lead and coordinate the project through the Committee of Adjustment (CofA) to obtain a minor variance.
From Possibilities to Plan to Permits
Each project will work through an initial Possibilities stage, and then proceed onto a Plans stage, and finally will complete a Permits stage where it will obtain its necessary approvals and become ready to proceed with construction.
1) Possibilities - Design Services Stage
We start every project with an in person meeting to go over the project’s possibilities and to begin understanding what you envision for this future building project. Things like property location, building type and how your dreams can be made into a reality with the budget you’ve set aside are discussed in detail. We then process all of this gathered information and prepare design proposals. At this point, a design presentation meeting is arranged where we navigate the pro’s, con’s and rough budgets for the project’s design options. Together, we then work through these options to determine which design makes the most sense for you. We iterate the design with you as many times as it takes until a final design is satisfyingly selected as ready to proceed onto the plans stage of the project.
2) Plans - Drafting Services Stage
Once we have worked through options and a final design you are excited to build has been selected, the design is submitted for an initial city zoning review(when applicable) to confirm its compliance. We then coordinate with structural engineers and mechanical HVAC designers to develop solutions wherever necessary. As these additional components are being calculated and determined, the remainder of the drawings and details are compiled for the building permit construction drawings package.
3) Permits - Building Permit Services Stage
Once the building permit drawing package is prepared, we proceed to complete all the necessary application filings and communications with your municipal building department. If the project has additional requirements such as obtaining a minor variance at a Committee of Adjustment, we can provide representation for the project and lead it through this additional planning department requirement prior to obtaining the final building permits. We keep working with the building department and any additional governing authorities until your project has received the building permits and necessary permissions it needs in order to get started with the construction stage.
Curious to learn more about what’s involved in obtaining a Toronto building permit for a residential building project, head over to our Toronto Building permit page to find out more.
Interested in learning more about Mark H Smith Designs Inc.? Visit our About page to learn more.
Head over to our Contact Page to start a conversation and we can begin working together with you to review and assess your project’s goals, context and feasibility and then develop a next step that makes sense to proceed with based on what you would like to accomplish for the project.
Mark H Smith Designs Inc.
Address: 203-50 Cambridge Ave, Toronto,
ON, M4K 2L3
Telephone: 647 609 0333
Email: info@markHsmith.ca
Hours: Monday - Friday: 10a.m.-6p.m.
Saturday, Sunday: Closed
Services:
Design
Drafting
Building Permit Coordination
Service Areas:
Greater Toronto Area(GTA);
Up to 200 km outside of GTA
