Completed work

Complete projects,
not fragments.

Completed Elbaz Construction guest units, kitchens and accessible bathrooms across South Florida - whole scopes rather than details, because that is what a complete submittal describes. Different properties; each caption says which.

Double-height ADU living room with a white entry door, skylight, wall-mounted television and a railed loft above
ADU living area with a blue tufted sofa and patterned rug looking through to a wood-fronted kitchen beneath the loft
ADU kitchen and breakfast bar with stools, seen past the blue sofa in the living area
ADU interior showing the stair to the loft, a stacked laundry alcove and the kitchen with breakfast-bar seating beyond
Side-by-side front-loading washer and dryer set into the space beneath a dark painted stair, with timber shelving above
ADU loft bedroom under a vaulted ceiling with an exposed timber beam, open to the railing above the living area
ADU loft bedroom with a dark timber bed and dresser, wood-look plank flooring and a vaulted ceiling with an exposed beam
View down from the ADU loft over a black spindle railing to the living area, skylight and breakfast bar below
ADU shower with a blue and grey patterned encaustic-style feature wall, matte black rain head and handheld, recessed niche and a glass door
ADU half bathroom with two open timber shelves on black brackets above the toilet under a sloped ceiling
Studio ADU interior with a grey sectional in the foreground and the bed set against the far wall beneath framed prints
Studio ADU seen across the kitchen range toward the sectional, framed prints and the bed beyond
Studio ADU kitchen with white shaker cabinets, a dark navy tiled backsplash, stainless refrigerator and a white range
Studio ADU sleeping area with a dark slat bed frame, white bedding and a small black bistro table beside a shuttered window
Vaulted studio ADU ceiling with an exposed dark beam, a skylight and a wall-mounted mini-split head above the kitchen
Studio ADU bathroom with a glass corner shower, mosaic shower floor, white shaker vanity with black pulls and wood-look plank flooring
Kitchen with white cabinetry, dark upper units and a marble island seen across the dining table
Cooking wall with a stainless range, wall-mounted hood and marble splashback between tall cabinetry
Tall cabinetry housing built-in ovens beside a wide drawer bank with brass hardware
Kitchen run with white lower cabinetry, brass hardware and a marble worktop under wall units
Open-plan kitchen with a large marble-topped island, dining table alongside and clear sightlines through to the living area
White vanity with a stone top and clear approach space in front of it
Shower floor in hexagonal mosaic meeting large-format wall tile, with a central drain
Bath and shower combination with a wall-mounted rail and a handheld shower on a slide bar

All photographs are of real Elbaz Construction work in South Florida. None was taken in Pembroke Park and none is presented as a Town-permitted project.

ADU interior showing the stair to the loft, a stacked laundry alcove and the kitchen with breakfast-bar seating beyond
A completed Elbaz Construction guest unit in South Florida, photographed on completion. Stair, laundry and kitchen in one volume - three trades and three sets of documents behind a single view.

Building here

A queue you can
fail to join.

Most permitting problems are about content: something is missing from the drawings, a product is unapproved, a calculation is absent. Those come back as comments, and comments are progress. Pembroke Park has a different failure mode, and it publishes it plainly: all submissions require a Building Department Transmittal Form, and any submission missing one will be returned without further processing.

A returned submission is not a slow submission. It is a submission that was never in the queue, so nothing was reviewed, no comments exist, and the Town’s own clock - which it publishes as 15 working days for a written approval or denial - has not begun. That is a scheduling risk with no technical component at all, and it is entirely avoidable.

  • The cover sheet is not optional

    The Town’s wording is "returned without further processing". There is no partial credit for a good drawing set.

  • There are two systems, on purpose

    Broward County ePermits OneStop for the County side; the Town’s own Gov-Easy for permit status and payment.

  • The published clock has a carve-out

    15 working days for a written answer - and the Town states that this does not include Planning and Zoning, Engineering or Fire review.

Talk through your property

Constraint and consequence

What the Town requires,
and what it means
for your paperwork.

None of the below is a statement about your address. It is what the Town publishes about how work reaches it, and what each item does to the way a submittal is assembled.

ADU kitchen and breakfast bar with stools, seen past the blue sofa in the living area
A completed Elbaz Construction guest unit kitchen in South Florida. A scope like this touches building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical - four disciplines whose paperwork has to arrive together.

The transmittal form goes on top

Every submission. The Town has published the consequence of forgetting it, which makes forgetting it an unforced error rather than bad luck.

Revisions have their own form

The Town states that all permit revisions, shop drawings and deferred engineering submittals require a Broward County Uniform Building Application. A revision is not a smaller version of the original submittal.

County approvals come back to the Town

Approved Broward County certificates are emailed to the Town. That handoff is a step somebody has to actually perform, and it is easy to assume it is automatic.

Status and payment live elsewhere

Gov-Easy handles viewing the permitting process and paying fees - card only, balances in full, plus a 3% processing fee, and you need the application or process number to pay.

The clock excludes three departments

Fifteen working days is for the building answer. Planning and Zoning, Engineering and Fire are outside it, so a project touching those is a longer project by definition.

The permit card lives outdoors

The Town states the card and attached documents shall be available and accessible outside the property to the inspector during all inspections. Not in a folder in the van.

15

working days the Town publishes for a written approval or denial - explicitly excluding Planning and Zoning, Engineering and Fire review

Two packages, same drawings
ElementMissing the transmittal formRouted correctly
What the Town does with itReturns it without further processingAccepts it into review
What you learnNothing about the designWritten comments, or an approval
When the 15 working days startThey do notOn acceptance
What the County seesNothing yetThe ePermits OneStop application, in parallel
Where you check progressNowhere - there is nothing to checkGov-Easy, by application or process number
What it costA cycle, for a cover sheetNothing extra

The drawings are identical in both columns. Everything that differs is administrative, and all of it is inside your control.

Stills from the two completed units on this page. They illustrate the stages; they are not photographs of the stage named beside them.

How we run it

Eight stages,
routed deliberately.

The sequence we follow on a Pembroke Park property. Half of it is about making sure the right document reaches the right system in the right order, because that is what this Town is strict about.

  1. 01

    Look up what is already on the address

    The Town publishes that permits issued on a property from 1988 to the present can be reviewed through its online permitting software. That is a long history and it is worth reading before forming any view about the house.

  2. 02

    Register before we need to

    Each contractor must register with the Town, showing proof of qualifications, before obtaining a permit. Registration is done early rather than discovered as a blocker on the day a submittal is ready.

  3. 03

    Survey and scope

    What you want, what the building will allow and what a survey finds - including what a previous owner did without a permit, which the property’s own record often hints at.

  4. 04

    Decide which reviews the scope triggers

    Building alone, or building plus Planning and Zoning, Engineering or Fire. This matters in Pembroke Park specifically, because the Town’s published clock covers the first and explicitly excludes the other three.

  5. 05

    Assemble the package, transmittal form on top

    Drawings, product approvals, calculations - and the Building Department Transmittal Form, without which the Town returns the whole thing unread. This is the cheapest step in the project and the most expensive to skip.

  6. 06

    Run the County side in parallel

    Broward County ePermits OneStop where County approval is part of the route, with approved certificates emailed to the Town. Two systems, one programme, and somebody actually performing the handoff.

  7. 07

    Construction, with the card posted outside

    Built to the approved documents. The permit card and its attachments stay accessible outside the property, because the Town states the inspector must be able to reach them during all inspections.

  8. 08

    Inspections and closeout

    Requests placed inside the Town’s stated calling window, then the permit is closed out rather than left open against the property.

Approvals

What goes where,
and in what order.

The Town is broad about what needs a permit and states it directly: you need one to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, remove or demolish any building or any part of a structure, and if the work entails changes to the occupancy. That is a wide definition and it is meant to be.

The interesting part is the plumbing behind it. Two systems are in play, and they do different jobs. Broward County ePermits OneStop handles the County side, with approved certificates emailed back to the Town. The Town’s own Gov-Easy handles permit status and fee payment. Knowing which is which, before a deadline, is most of what running a project here well consists of.

INFILLED VEHICLE OPENINGBATHKITCHENLIVING / SLEEPINGENTRY

Simplified sketch, for explanation only. It is not a permit drawing and not a plan of either project shown on this page.

From first call to closeout

  • The Building Department Transmittal Form

    On every submission. The Town states that anything arriving without one is returned without further processing.

  • Permit revisions

    Require a Broward County Uniform Building Application, along with shop drawings and deferred engineering submittals.

  • Broward County ePermits OneStop

    Create an account, apply, and email approved County certificates to the Town. The Town publishes this as its County route.

  • Gov-Easy

    For viewing permitting status and paying fees. Card only, balances in full, plus a 3% processing fee, and you need your application or process number.

  • Contractor registration

    Each contractor registers with the Town, showing proof of qualifications, before obtaining a permit for construction.

  • Signatures on the application

    The Town points at Florida Statute 713.135 in its own answer about what signatures an application requires.

  • The permit card on site

    Available and accessible outside the property to the inspector during all inspections, with its attached documents.

  • Planning and Zoning, Engineering, Fire

    Named by the Town as reviews that sit outside its published 15-working-day window. A scope touching them is a longer programme.

A returned submittal teaches you nothing

A rejected one at least comes with comments. This is the argument for spending ten minutes on the cover sheet: not neatness, but the fact that the alternative produces no information at all.

None of the above is a statement about your property. The Town of Pembroke Park Building Department determines what any specific address and scope requires, and requirements change. We confirm what your project actually needs before anything is filed, and beyond the Town’s own stated 3% card processing fee and its published 15-working-day window - quoted with its exclusions - we do not publish fees, durations or any assurance of approval.

Cost and time

What moves the number,
and what moves the date.

No figures here. In a town where an administrative slip costs a whole cycle, the honest conversation about time is not about how fast anyone works.

01

What moves the cost

  • How many reviews the scope triggers

    Building alone is one thing. Building plus Planning and Zoning, Engineering or Fire is a different project with a different coordination cost.

  • Revisions during construction

    They carry their own County application here, so a mid-build change is paperwork as well as work.

  • What the property record shows

    Permits back to 1988 are visible. What that history contains - especially what it does not contain - can change the scope before it changes the price.

  • Structural alteration

    Openings, spans and load paths need engineering, and engineering needs to be in the drawing before it can be in the submittal.

  • Occupancy change

    The Town names it explicitly as triggering a permit. It is a different category of project and should be priced as one.

  • Scope added after filing

    The most reliable way to turn one review cycle into three, and here it brings a County form with it.

02

What moves the schedule

  • Getting the package complete

    Including the transmittal form. This is the single cheapest week anyone can save on a Pembroke Park project.

  • The Town’s 15 working days

    Its published window for a written approval or denial - and only for the building answer.

  • The three excluded reviews

    Planning and Zoning, Engineering and Fire sit outside that window. If your scope touches them, plan for it.

  • The County side

    ePermits OneStop runs in parallel, and approved certificates have to be emailed back to the Town by somebody.

  • Product lead times

    Ordering after approval is a date; ordering before it is a risk.

  • Inspections

    Requested inside the Town’s stated window and sequenced through construction, with closeout at the end.

Owner’s guide

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Six things worth knowing
before anything is filed.

Not rules - the Town writes those. These are the things that most often change how a Pembroke Park project runs, and most of them are administrative.

01

Ask which system each document goes to

Town or County, Gov-Easy or ePermits OneStop. It sounds like trivia until a deadline is a week away.

02

Read the 15 days with its exclusions attached

The Town publishes the carve-out itself: Planning and Zoning, Engineering and Fire are not in it. Quoting the number without them is how expectations get set wrong.

03

Look up the address before you buy or brief

Permits from 1988 to the present are visible through the Town’s software. An hour there is worth a lot of assumptions.

04

A revision is a County form

Permit revisions, shop drawings and deferred engineering submittals all require a Broward County Uniform Building Application. Budget the process, not just the change.

05

The card goes outside

Available and accessible outside the property to the inspector during all inspections. A simple thing that fails inspections when it is not done.

06

Payment has its own rules

Card only, balance in full, 3% processing fee, and you need the application or process number. Worth knowing before the person paying is not the person who filed.

Studio ADU sleeping area with a dark slat bed frame, white bedding and a small black bistro table beside a shuttered window
A completed Elbaz Construction studio guest unit in South Florida, photographed on completion. Not photographed in Pembroke Park.

What it is like

Living with a project
that is mostly logistics.

The honest version of the experience, including the parts where the administration genuinely matters more than the trades.

  • We check the cover sheet twice

    It is a small thing that costs a whole cycle, and it is the failure mode this Town has published.

  • You will hear about two systems

    Because there genuinely are two, and confusing them is the second most expensive mistake available here.

  • Decisions arrive in batches

    We will ask for product selections and finishes together, because they go into the same package and a package is what gets submitted.

  • One point of contact

    The same person from the first visit to the walkthrough. Design, permitting and construction sit in one company, so a reviewer’s comment does not wait on a hand-off between two firms.

  • The site itself is ordinary

    Protection, containment, deliveries, dust and noise are managed as on any job, and any association hours are respected without being asked. The permit card stays posted where the inspector can reach it.

  • Closeout is not optional

    Permits are closed out. An open permit stays with the property and reappears when it is sold, when it is someone else’s leverage.

Questions

Ask the
awkward ones.

Six categories. Pick one and the answers change.

Not answered here?

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It is the Town’s own cover sheet for a submission. What makes it matter is the published consequence: the Town states that all submissions require a Building Department Transmittal Form and that any submission missing one will be returned without further processing. A returned package produces no comments and starts no clock.

The Town publishes that the Code allows a period of 15 working days to provide a written answer by either approving or denying an application - and it states in the same breath that this period does not include review time for Planning and Zoning, Engineering and Fire. We always quote both halves.

Then the published window does not describe your project, and we say so at the start rather than letting you discover it. Which reviews a scope triggers is something we establish before drawings are finished.

No. The Town states that all permit revisions, shop drawings and deferred engineering submittals require a Broward County Uniform Building Application. A revision follows a different route from the original submittal.

View down from the ADU loft over a black spindle railing to the living area, skylight and breakfast bar below
A completed Elbaz Construction studio guest unit in South Florida. Not photographed in Pembroke Park. Every element visible here was described in a package before it was built, and packages are what this Town is strict about.

Why Elbaz

What we will actually
put our name to.

  • Licensed, bonded and insured

    Elbaz Construction is a licensed Florida general contractor, CBC1265280. Permits are pulled in the company’s name.

  • We register before we need to

    Contractor registration with the Town is done at the start, not discovered as a blocker on the day a package is ready.

  • We treat the cover sheet as part of the design

    Because in this Town it decides whether anything gets read at all.

  • Design and construction in one contract

    The people who draw it are the people who build it, so a reviewer’s comment comes back to the team that can answer it.

  • We say what we do not know

    Which reviews a specific scope triggers is the Town’s to determine. Any contractor quoting you the 15-day window without its exclusions is telling you less than the Town did.

  • Permits closed out

    Every permit we pull is closed out at the end of the job rather than left open against the property.

No awards, no rankings and no numbers we cannot show you. Everything above is either public record or visible in the work on this page.

Reviews

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Tell us about the property

What helps on the first call

The address, roughly when the building was built, what you want to change, and whether the use of any space is changing. The address is what lets us read the permit history rather than guess it.

What happens next

We check what is already permitted on the property, then survey it, and we establish early which reviews your scope will actually trigger - because that, not the drawing, sets the programme here.

What you will not get from us

The 15-day figure quoted without its exclusions, a promised approval, or a fee from a table. The Town publishes its own carve-out and we repeat it.

Preferred contact method

We use your details only to respond to this enquiry. No lists, no resale.

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Your details are with the Elbaz Construction team and we will come back to you, usually the same or next working day. If it is urgent, call (754) 236-0675.

Get the package right
the first time.

In Pembroke Park a complete submission gets comments and an incomplete one gets returned unread. Start with a survey and a conversation about which reviews your scope actually triggers.

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Open-plan kitchen with a large marble-topped island, dining table alongside and clear sightlines through to the living area