Capabilities
Take the whole scope or a single piece of it. Most contractors start with a plan set and end up handing me the permitting too.
The drawings themselves, and the modeling that decides them.
The complete permit drawing package: cover and code summary, site plan with fire setbacks, roof plan and module layout, attachment schedule, electrical sheets, calculations and placards. Delivered as one sheet-numbered, PE-sealed PDF.
String configuration, overcurrent protection, rapid shutdown, grounding and bonding, and a drawn label schedule showing what goes where. Traced end to end so nobody has to infer a conductor.
Layout optimization and yield estimates before the layout is fixed, so modules land where they actually produce and your customer's expectation matches the array.
DC- and AC-coupled systems, including fully off-grid builds. Autonomy, generator integration and load prioritization worked out before hardware is ordered.
Batteries added to a system, or designed in from day one.
Storage added to an existing PV system, or designed in from the start. Working clearances, listing compliance, placards and the code path for indoor and garage installations.
What holds the array down in a 140 mph wind zone.
Carports and canopies, uplift tables, attachment schedules and mounting details. Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance products specified where the AHJ requires them, which in South Florida is most of the time.
From submittal to approved permit, comments included.
Packaged the way your building department wants to receive it. When comments come back, I answer them and revise, included, until the permit is approved. You are not paying per round trip.
The paperwork and the engineering behind it.
Interconnection applications with the supporting engineering: load calculations, main-bus derates under NEC 705.12, and meter or main service upgrades when the existing bus will not carry the system.
After the set is sealed, and before the inspector arrives.
Record drawings after the change orders, plus a punch list and corrective notes before the inspector arrives, so the first inspection is the last one.
Remote or field guidance when a system will not come up, a string reads wrong, or a rapid shutdown device is not reporting.
Independent code-compliance and QA review of a set drawn by someone else, before you buy it, build it, or inherit it.
CAD templates, drafting standards, bills of material and hands-on training for your in-house design team. Several Florida contractors run on standards built in this office.
standards your team keeps
long after I leave
Beyond the drawing
Training your designers on templates, standards and code paths costs me work in the short term and earns better projects in the long term.
When your in-house team handles the routine residential sets cleanly, what reaches me is the work that actually needs a PE.
Scope
Describe the job in two lines. I'll tell you what the scope actually requires, including the parts you do not need to buy.
two lines is plenty,
I'll ask for the rest
