Orchestrating Complex Permitting with Precision.
Commun-ET is a permitting and utility coordination firm in Washington, DC that manages permit expediting, entitlements, and dry and wet utility coordination for commercial real estate developers and multi-site owners nationwide.
Permit expediting and utility coordination are what we do every day. As a permitting firm based in Washington DC, we run the full approval path so your project opens on schedule: permitting strategy, permit expediting, entitlements, plan review management, dry and wet utility coordination, energization and meter-set coordination, and inspections coordination.
We work across Washington DC, the Maryland and Virginia corridor, and we deliver national multi-site programs, with active expansion into Delaware, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Our clients include commercial developers, multi-site restaurant and retail owners, general contractors, public agencies, and data center and energy developers.
We coordinate directly with the agencies and utilities that control your timeline, including the DC Department of Buildings, DDOT, DOEE, Prince George's County, Montgomery County, WSSC, MDOT SHA, Pepco, Washington Gas, BGE, Dominion, Delmarva, and Duke Energy.
Behind our team is an AI-assisted platform that reads jurisdictional code, drafts applications, tracks review queues, and surfaces conflicts before they become delays. The technology does the pattern work. Our people make the judgment calls.
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A national practice, run from Washington, DC.
Commun-ET delivers permitting and utility coordination nationwide. Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia are covered markets inside that national practice, alongside our expansion along the East Coast.
Washington, DC
Our home market, run from our office at 100 M Street SE, Suite 600. We manage permit expediting, entitlements, plan review, and right-of-way coordination inside the District.
- DC Department of Buildings
- DDOT
- DOEE
- Pepco
- Washington Gas
Maryland
Suburban Maryland programs across Prince George's County and Montgomery County, including water and sewer coordination and state highway access review.
- Prince George's County
- Montgomery County
- WSSC
- MDOT SHA
- BGE
- Delmarva
Virginia
Northern Virginia and statewide sites, with dry and wet utility coordination, energization, and meter-set sequencing handled alongside local building review.
- Dominion
- Washington Gas
East Coast expansion
Active expansion into Delaware, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, supporting multi-site owners moving down the corridor from the capital region.
- Delmarva
- Duke Energy
Permit expediting and utility coordination services
- Permitting strategy
- Permit expediting
- Entitlements
- Plan review management
- Dry and wet utility coordination
- Energization and meter-set coordination
- Inspections coordination
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Our coverage pages break down the agencies, utilities, and review paths market by market.
Phone, email, and headquarters
Reach the Commun-ET team directly, or send project details through our contact form.
Headquarters
100 M Street SE, Suite 600Washington, DC 20003
National delivery, run from our DC office.
Our Mission
Every project rises or stalls on one thing: approvals. We exist to make that the most predictable part of your build, not the part that keeps you up at night. By pairing seasoned permitting and utility coordination specialists with our PermitPilot intelligence layer, we turn one of the most opaque steps in construction into a clear, tracked, and defensible path from first submission to final sign-off. Whether it is a single location or a national rollout across dozens of jurisdictions, our goal stays the same: get you to the finish line faster, with fewer surprises and nothing left to chance.
Bring us your next approval. We will show you what certainty looks like.
Our Story
Founded on the principle that regulatory friction should not impede progress. We built our proprietary client platform, PermitPilot, to synthesize the combined permitting and utility-coordination experience of our named principals, more than 30 years in total*, into an actionable intelligence engine, and put it in the hands of the operators reshaping the built environment.
* Combined experience of named Commun-ET principals. Read full methodology →
A full-spectrum practice for permits, utilities, and public approvals.
Commun-ET is a permitting, utility coordination, and public engagement firm built for operators who cannot afford to guess. For more than a decade we have moved complex projects, from national quick-service restaurant rollouts to fiber expansions, transit hubs, and civil infrastructure programs, through the approval process across the 30+ jurisdictions we work in most deeply. Every engagement is senior-led, anchored by strategists who have sat on both sides of the reviewer's desk, and instrumented inside PermitPilot™, our proprietary operated service layer, so nothing gets lost between a plan set and a permit. AI does the pattern recognition. Our people do the judgment.
Our five disciplines, External Project Management, Utility Coordination, Permitting Strategy, Public Engagement, and Compliance Audits, work as standalone engagements or as a stitched-together program. We draft submittals, chase reviewers, deconflict subsurface utilities, run community meetings, and hand executives a real-time picture of every milestone. The result is fewer re-scopes, shorter approval cycles, and a defensible paper trail from first application to final inspection, delivered with the clarity and cadence a modern build demands.
External PM
Senior strategists embedded alongside your team to drive complex multi-jurisdictional permitting programs end-to-end. Powered by PermitPilot.
Utility Coordination
Specialized dry-utility, joint-trench, and subsurface coordination across electric, gas, water, telecom, and stormwater networks.
Public Engagement
Community engagement, agency liaison, and hearing preparation that turns public review from a risk into a tailwind.
Permitting Strategy
Senior advisory engagements that map the regulatory path, sequence approvals, and surface schedule risk before a single submittal goes out the door.
Compliance & Audit
Audit-ready document control, condition-tracking, and dispute-defense services for active programs and post-completion review.
Key Personnel
Permitting Managers
Extending Our Capabilities
Commun-ET extends its capabilities through select partnerships with specialized firms. Our Strategic Partners are independent leaders who collaborate with us to deliver integrated services to our clients.