Most permit expediters in Philadelphia are purely administrative. They take your paperwork, drop it off at the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I), and wait. If there is a missing detail, a structural flag, or a zoning error, you get hit with a rejection—delaying your timeline by weeks or months.
We do things entirely differently.
Philadelphia Expediters is run by a team of licensed Structural Engineers, Architects, and General Contractors. We submit and secure permits for our own multi-million dollar developments every single day. We know the Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code inside and out.
We have repeatedly secured permit approvals in less than a week. We aren't just talking about simple EZ permits—we achieve this turnaround on full new construction and major alteration projects. Our resounding speed and success come down to a proven method. While we do leverage the city's expedite fee, the real secret is our engineering foresight. We know exactly every file, form, and report required for upload before we even log into the eCLIPSE system, eliminating the back-and-forth requests for information that stall most projects.
L&I places a heavy emphasis on structural integrity, which often results in what feels like an endless requirement for Professional Engineer (PE) stamps on your paperwork. That is exactly where our team excels. We are structural engineers with active PE stamps. We know precisely what the latest structural requirements are because we engineer and review these documents daily.
You are in GREAT hands with the team at Philadelphia Expediters.