The Builder — Leslie House, 913 SW 15 Avenue, Miami

Design intent this specific only survives if one party owns the whole chain. Academia Development Corp came into Leslie House as that party — awarding and buying out the trades, reviewing the engineering, carrying the permitting, and self-performing the work no subcontractor would hold the line on.

License: CGC1528882 — Certified General Contractor, State of Florida
Also holds: Roofing and plumbing licenses of record on this project
Self-performed: Roofing · Plumbing · Shell
Managed: Trade award and buyout · engineering review · permitting · sequencing
Coordinated: City of Miami Building, Public Works, Miami-Dade DERM and WASD, and the utility
Scope: Ground-up new construction on a constrained infill lot

License and trade-of-record lines are taken from the permitted contractor records. The coordination line is attested by the builder.

On site

What that looked like.

01The crane rigged in the street, working over the neighboring building. Sequencing this lot was the job.

02Column formwork, rebar and steel stacked on a footprint with no lay-down space.

Roofing, self-performed. Academia holds the roofing license of record here, so the membrane over a roof that is also… — 03Roofing, self-performed. Academia holds the roofing license of record here, so the membrane over a roof that is also the ceiling is its own signature, not a subcontractor's.

Plumbing, self-performed. The manifold is Academia's own license of record too — every fixture on its own run… — 04Plumbing, self-performed. The manifold is Academia's own license of record too — every fixture on its own run, isolatable at one valve.

Shell, self-performed. Placing a floor plate in a single pour, on a lot with no room to stage and a neighbour on each… — 05Shell, self-performed. Placing a floor plate in a single pour, on a lot with no room to stage and a neighbour on each boundary.

Specification

What that looked like.