Construction permit support for your build in Bali

The common Bali shortcut is buying a minimal drawing set for approval while building something different. It works until it doesn't: the mismatch surfaces when you sell, insure or extend, and retrofitting legality costs multiples of doing it once. Because our permit drawings and construction drawings come from the same office, they are the same drawings — the file describes the actual building, setbacks are checked against the actual boundary survey, and nothing needs re-inventing later.

Support runs from zoning confirmation before design starts, through the technical drawing and calculation package, to coordinating submissions and answering technical queries until approval lands. Where a plot carries land-status complications, we work alongside your notary rather than pretending to be one. And we'll be straight about timelines: approvals here move at administrative speed, so we run the paperwork in parallel with detailed design instead of after it.

How building approval actually works here

Since the national rules changed, the old IMB has been replaced by the PBG — Persetujuan Bangunan Gedung — issued before construction, with the SLF certificate confirming the finished building matches it. The file behind a PBG is technical: architectural drawings, structural calculations referencing an actual soil test, sanitation and drainage plans, all consistent with each other and with the zoning attached to your plot. Reviewers check consistency more than beauty, and inconsistent files are where months disappear.

That's the quiet advantage of preparing the file inside the design and build process: the soil report, survey and structural design already exist, produced by one team, so the approval package is assembled rather than invented. We've watched owners lose a season while a consultant redrew third-party plans just to make the paperwork agree with itself.

What we do — and what we don't

Our lane is the technical file and its journey: drawings, calculations, supporting documents, submission and query handling for projects we design or build. Inside that lane we take responsibility in writing — if a reviewer queries the structure, the engineer who designed it answers, usually within days.

Outside that lane, we'd rather point you to the right specialist than improvise. Legalising a building that already exists without documents, resolving land-title questions, or licensing consultancy for a build we're not involved in — those are different professions, and Bali has good ones. Keeping that boundary clean is why our timelines hold: the file we submit describes a building we engineered ourselves, on ground we tested, drawn by people who will stand on site when it's inspected.