FREE REPORT · 14 PAGES · PUBLISHED 2026

What 374 Texas Projects Tell Us About Commercial MEP Engineering

Cost benchmarks, project mix, and what actually compresses the permit cycle — pulled from 374 anonymized Texas commercial MEP engagements. No fluff, 4 charts, the same data we sanity-check our own quotes against.

What is inside

  • 1. Executive summary — three findings on one page
  • 2. Methodology — sample composition (374 projects, 35 cities, 23 use types)
  • 3. Project mix bar chart across the 8 most-common use types
  • 4. Top 10 Texas cities by project count + AHJ commentary
  • 5. The 93% statistic on TX code-basis adoption
  • 6. Industry construction cost benchmarks ($/sf) by use type
  • 7. Top 5 things that delay Texas commercial MEP permits
  • 8. The 5-step compression playbook (offsetting actions)
  • 9. AHJ familiarity matrix — jurisdictions we ship in
  • 10. Recommendations for owners, GCs, and architects

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    The numbers in the report

    374
    TX projects analyzed
    35
    Texas cities covered
    93%
    on modern code stack
    14
    states licensed
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