Your entitlements are approved. Now it’s time to make the vision a reality. Core Design delivers every construction document your contractor needs to mobilize — grading, stormwater, erosion control, water, sewer, and roads — submitted to the jurisdiction within 8 weeks of project kickoff. Permitting included.
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Existing conditions analysis, finished floor elevations, earthwork balance, and detailed grading designed for constructability and cost efficiency. We optimize cut-fill to keep your sitework budget in check.
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Detention, retention, storm drain systems, and stormwater management reports — each one tailored to your specific site and development type. Where most firms apply sweeping assumptions, we perform individualized hydrologic and hydraulic analysis. The result: right-sized infrastructure that meets every requirement without overbuilding — protecting both your buildable area and your budget.
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NPDES-compliant erosion and sediment control plans, SWPPP preparation, and BMP details — from first disturbed acre through final stabilization. Designed to protect neighboring properties and natural resources while maintaining full compliance with EPA standards.
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Domestic water lines, fire flow analysis, and service connections — sized for your specific product type and designed in coordination with local utility providers to ensure capacity, alignment, and constructability from day one.
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Gravity sewer, lift stations, low pressure systems, septic design, manhole placement, service laterals, and capacity analysis. Nobody wants to overpay for sewer — they just need it to work. We design reliable systems at the lowest responsible cost, coordinated with utility providers from the start.
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Street layout, horizontal and vertical geometry, pavement sections, curb and gutter, and ADA-compliant pedestrian infrastructure. Designed to create a functional, seamless experience for the people who will drive, walk, and live on these roads every day.
Most firms take 4–6 months. That's months of carry costs and a GC sitting idle. We commit to 8 weeks — NTP to jurisdictional submittal — because we've built our process to deliver on it: parallel design across all six disciplines, internal QC before anything leaves our office, and a team that isn't overloaded.
A clear, predictable path from approved entitlements to construction-ready plans.
We review your approved entitlement package, confirm scope parameters, and build the base file from your boundary and topographic survey. All six disciplines start from the same coordinated base.
Grading, stormwater, utilities, erosion control, and roadway design happen in parallel. We coordinate internally across all disciplines so conflicts are caught during design — not during plan review or construction.
Every sheet goes through our internal quality control and value engineering process. We verify cross-discipline coordination, code compliance, and constructability — while identifying opportunities to reduce cost without sacrificing performance. Nothing leaves our office until it’s been reviewed for both accuracy and value.
We submit construction documents to the reviewing jurisdiction and manage all agency communication, review comments, and resubmittals on your behalf. You stay focused on the deal — we manage the back-and-forth.
All permitting efforts are included in Core Design. We manage the submission process, track review timelines, respond to agency comments, and coordinate with reviewing departments on your behalf — from first submittal through permit issuance.
Agency moratoria, post-submittal code changes, owner-initiated scope changes, DOT design, additional exhibits beyond standard civil, and off-site improvements. These items can be scoped separately if your project requires them.
Your approvals are in hand. Let's turn them into construction-ready plans.
Start Core Design →These services support your project through construction and beyond. They are scoped and priced separately from Core Design.
We provide proposals and manage communication for all external consultants required to advance your civil scope.
RFI's, submittals, field changes, pond certifications, and site inspections — managed from permit through closeout.
Construction staking and GPS machine models to keep your contractor on grade and on schedule.
Lot-level site plans and foundation staking for vertical construction.
Most firms take 4–6 months to deliver a complete set of civil construction documents. Samford Group submits plans to the jurisdiction within 8 weeks of project kickoff. If we miss that deadline, we discount our fee 25%.
Value engineering identifies opportunities to reduce infrastructure cost without sacrificing performance or compliance. This includes optimizing earthwork balance, right-sizing stormwater facilities through individualized hydrologic analysis, and eliminating over-designed elements that add cost but no value. At Samford Group, value engineering is built into our QC process on every project.
A full plan set typically includes grading plans, stormwater management design, erosion and sediment control plans, water distribution, sanitary sewer, and roadway design. Samford Group designs all six disciplines from the same coordinated base file, and all permitting efforts are included.
Yes. Permitting is included in every Core Design engagement. We manage jurisdictional submittals, track review timelines, respond to agency comments, and handle all resubmittals through permit issuance.
Many firms apply sweeping assumptions and conservative defaults that result in oversized ponds and wasted buildable area. Samford Group performs individualized hydrologic and hydraulic analysis for each site and development type, which produces right-sized infrastructure that meets every requirement without overbuilding — protecting your lot yield and your budget.
Ready to break ground? Tell us the site, the product type, and your target start date — we’ll put together a Core Design scope and timeline.