Permit Office (AHJ)
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County — Department of Codes and Building Safety (Metro Codes)
Davidson County (Metro Nashville) · Tennessee
MEP, structural, civil, and energy-compliance engineering for Nashville projects — permitted through Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County — Department of Codes and Building Safety (Metro Codes) and designed to the city's adopted codes and amendments.
Coordinated mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design — engineered as one system, stamped by licensed professionals, and documented for fast permit approval.
Structural systems designed to the loads your state actually imposes — gravity, seismic, wind, and snow — with drawings built to get approved the first time.
Site engineering that clears local review — grading, drainage, and utilities designed to each jurisdiction's published standards from day one.
Energy compliance handled as engineering, not paperwork — documentation matched to the exact code edition your permitting jurisdiction enforces.
Because Nashville runs its own building department, it adopts and amends its own code edition and does not simply default to Tennessee's statewide 2018 IBC minimum — so we verify the exact edition and local amendments Metro Codes currently enforces for each project. Local layers that reshape design include Metro's stormwater management regulations, floodplain ordinances tied to the Cumberland River corridor, and the Metro zoning/overlay framework.
Nashville is among the South's hottest construction markets, driven by a healthcare-industry cluster (hospital systems and HCA headquarters), a booming hospitality and entertainment sector downtown, sustained corporate relocations (including major tech and financial campuses), and heavy multifamily and mixed-use growth. That pace has stretched Metro Codes' review capacity, making early stormwater and floodplain coordination essential to schedule.
Reviewed 2026-09-11. Code editions and local requirements can change; confirm the current requirements with the authority having jurisdiction before design.
Nashville and Davidson County operate under a consolidated Metro government, so Metro Codes is the single AHJ for the county. Commercial plan review and permitting run through Metro's online portal (the ePermits / eplans system), with electronic submittal and multi-discipline review. Metro Codes publishes review timelines and offers pre-application and larger-project coordination; site plans and stormwater review are handled alongside building permits, and Metro Water Services reviews the stormwater and grading package separately from the building set.
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