Coastal Construction in West Florida

Building in coastal areas requires an elevated commitment to structural integrity, logistics and attention to detail. There are many aspects of building in a flood zone and/or a high velocity wind zone which have laws and regulations involved which simply don’t exist on non-waterfront or non-high velocity wind zone locations. Moreover, the Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) may dictate where and how a waterfront structure may or may not be built. The CCCL also mandates state level involvement in the building permitting process rather than local city or county building department authorities and is more often than not more restrictive than regulations applied to other areas in the coastal building zone.

When building in coastal geography there also may also be a need for a higher degree of logistical effort to transport labor and materials to and from the job site. In certain instances, coastal communities have limited road access, or may be without access roads at all, and labor and materials must be transported by ferry or barge, in some cases utilizing a crane to on-load and offload material from the dock to the barge and then from the barge to the building site. Understandably, this creates added expense and requires an elevated logistical effort to ensure the transportation process is scheduled and completed as efficiently as possible.