Empowering Florida Communities to Thrive
Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc. (CGA), a SAFEbuilt company, is a multidisciplinary community development and engineering practice serving municipalities, counties, and public agencies across Florida. It specializes in outsourced building department services, including plan review, inspections, permitting, code compliance enforcement, and permit technician staffing. It also provides construction engineering and inspection (CEI), civil engineering, transportation planning, landscape architecture, urban design, land surveying, and municipal data technology solutions.
Comprehensive outsourced building department resources to ensure code compliance, permitting efficiency, and administrative support for municipal and county governments.
Comprehensive administration, staffing, and operations support to manage a municipality's complete building department.
Expert evaluation of architectural and engineering construction plans to verify compliance with the Florida Building Code and local regulations.
Field inspections across structural, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing disciplines to ensure safe construction.
Diplomatic and structured operations to gain compliance with community standards, local land use, and property maintenance codes.
On-call, daily backlog, or long-term staffing of professional permit technicians to streamline administrative processing.
Certified building officials to provide overall leadership, quality control, and general building department administration.
Construction engineering and inspection verifies public infrastructure work.
Field quality assurance for construction activity.
Inspection support for highways and municipal projects.
Engineering review during public works delivery.
Transportation engineering improves roadway and mobility systems.
Design support for connected transportation networks.
Planning support for roadway upgrades.
Engineering support for community connectivity improvements.
Planning and zoning services support community development reviews.
Planning support for local development policy.
Review support for development submissions.
Administration support for zoning and agency coordination.
Landscape architecture designs resilient community spaces.
Design of civic and community open spaces.
Planning and design for parks and recreational corridors.
Design of streetscapes that reflect community identity.
Surveying and mapping support public works and development programs.
Survey services for land and infrastructure projects.
Mapping support for planning and public works.
Geospatial data support for development and infrastructure.
Implements tailored software systems to streamline government administration, inspections, and permit tracking.
A proprietary web-based government tracking platform enabling mobile field operations, real-time tracking, and automated recordkeeping.
Operational support and management services to maintain municipal buildings and community facilities.
Government · Transportation · Infrastructure · Parks & Open Space · Multifamily Residential · Land Development
Hillsboro Beach, FL · Government · 2022 · Client: Town of Hillsboro Beach, FL
Site plan review and approval for an 11-acre, 100-unit redevelopment project integrating multi-family development while conserving environmentally sensitive coastal land. It also includes providing technical expertise and coordinating with FDOT to redesign and elevate A1A to address sea level rise.
Miami Beach, FL · Parks & Open Space · Client: City of Miami Beach, FL
Landscape architecture and urban design services for the iconic public recreational corridor in Miami Beach.
Broward County, FL · Transportation · Client: Broward County, FL
Construction engineering and inspection services supporting road networks and public highway infrastructure.
Estero, FL · Government · Client: Village of Estero, FL
Provision of outsourced municipal building department operations, code compliance, plans review, and building inspection support.