Working with a DOB expediter: what they actually do
'Expediter' gets thrown around loosely. Here's what the role actually covers — and why we keep it in-house instead of handing it to a third party.
An expediter's job is to move a filing through the Department of Buildings efficiently — but the term covers a wide range of actual involvement, and it matters which kind you're getting.
What the role covers
Preparing the filing package, submitting through DOB NOW, responding to plan-examiner objections, and scheduling the inspections and sign-offs that follow approval.
The gap in a hand-off model
When permitting sits with a separate expediter who wasn't in the design meetings, objections take longer to resolve because someone has to translate between the architect, the expediter, and the builder — and that translation costs time.
Why we keep it under one roof
Our team files what our team designed, so an objection gets answered by someone who already knows the intent behind the drawing — not by someone reading it cold for the first time.
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