A design-build firm that reads the code for a living.
Aduvante is the residential practice of Eras Noel Development, LLC, founded in 2015 and licensed as a general contractor in the State of California, License 1070238.
We design, permit, and build accessory dwelling units, lot splits, additions, and new construction throughout Los Angeles County — all 88 cities and the unincorporated county. If your parcel is in LA County, we can permit on it.
Most firms treat permitting as the annoying part after the design. We treat it as the design problem. Knowing what a particular plan-check engineer in a particular department will flag is the difference between a set that clears in one cycle and one that eats a year.
Our clients are, in the main, families who have owned property in Los Angeles County for a generation or more. That is who walks in the door, and it shapes how we work: published prices, plain answers, and a written scope before anyone pays for design.
We will tell you when a project does not pencil. We would rather lose a $6,000 design fee than put a homeowner into a build that the rent will not carry.
Your drawings belong to you. If you would rather build with someone else, take the stamped set and go.
The person who measures your house draws your set.
No call centers, no outsourced drafting. The person who stands in your driveway with the tape measure holds a degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame — and the same hands that measure your home draw the set that goes to plan check. The firm is run by a Notre Dame graduate who is also a licensed California general contractor, so the drawings are made by people who have built what they draw.
We have gotten plans approved that other people couldn't. Sets that stalled somewhere else — two or three correction rounds deep, going nowhere — come to us, and we carry them to a stamp. That is the actual work: not drawing lines, but knowing what your city's plan-check desk will say before they say it.
We will not promise you zero corrections — anyone who does is selling you something. Corrections are part of plan check. What matters is who answers them, how fast, and whether your set reaches stamped and approved.
How we work
Prices in public
Every fee we charge is listed on the services page. You should not have to sit through a sales call to learn what a drawing set costs.
Permits, not renderings
A beautiful rendering is worth nothing at the counter. We measure our work by stamped sets and finaled inspections.
One point of contact
The same person who wrote your feasibility report answers the phone when plan check issues corrections eight months later.
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