Every meaningful home addition requires a permit. The work touches structure, mechanical systems, and the building envelope, which puts it squarely within your local building code and plan-review process. In Charlotte, that’s the North Carolina Residential Code and Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement; in nearby towns and counties, it’s the local jurisdiction, and ReVision manages that process wherever your home is.
In practice, that means three things: your project is reviewed for setbacks, height, lot coverage, and zoning by your city or town (in Charlotte, the City of Charlotte); the building, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical drawings are reviewed by the county or local building department (in Mecklenburg County, with a target turnaround of about seven days for one- and two-family dwellings); and every phase of construction is inspected, from footings to final, before we close it up. Additions always require a licensed structural engineer, because they connect to the existing home and change how loads travel to the foundation.
As a design-build firm, ReVision carries one contract for design and construction — the same team that draws your addition builds it, coordinates the engineer, the city, and the county, and stands behind the result. That’s different from the traditional design-bid-build approach, where you hire an architect, then bid the drawings out to contractors, then renegotiate scope when the numbers come back. For most Charlotte additions, a single-team design-build model is the difference between a project that runs on schedule and one that stalls in coordination.
