All Forum Posts by: Raymond Dwyer

General Contractors don't submit plans for permit. They sometimes have architects and engineers on staff, making them a design-build firm, but those architects or engineers are still the ones that submit it, even when on behalf of a larger company. General Contractors sometimes also process the permit application, but will still require drawings, signatures, and other documents by the architect or engineer of record.

Whole reason for this is that the jurisdiction the building is located needs to have a design professional held liable for any faults due to design, as opposed to the construction of that design which contractors are liable for.