For architects & planners · Hawaiʻi

Frame scope and schedule before the contract locks in a timeline you can't hold.

KILO gives architects a parcel-level read on cultural-resource, shoreline-setback, and regulatory exposure at the feasibility stage — so the schedule and fee you commit to reflect what the site will actually demand.

The problem

A schedule promised at SD is a schedule you own.

Architects commit clients to scope, fee, and a timeline early — often before anyone knows whether the parcel will trigger an archaeological inventory survey, a §6E-42 review, or a shoreline-setback variance. When that surfaces at permitting, the schedule slips, the fee erodes, and the conversation with the client gets difficult.

The information needed to scope honestly exists in public data. It has just never been assembled at the parcel level, fast enough to use during feasibility.

At feasibility

Know what the site will demand — before the fee proposal.

KILO reports a parcel's cultural-resource sensitivity, the full water picture (wastewater + supply feasibility + nearshore quality + federal CWA §401/§404 triggers), and — for near-shore parcels — how much of the lot is actually buildable today and under each sea-level-rise step. Each output is cited and carries a confidence breakdown, so you can tell a client what is solid and what is provisional.

It tells you when to advise an AIS, a monitoring scope, or a setback variance up front — and build the months and the fee for it into the proposal, instead of absorbing them later.

What the ordinance leaves you

How much of this lot can you actually build on — now, and in 2050?

Honolulu's ROH §26-1.4(b) sets a shoreline setback, and SMA applications must show the parcel against three SLR scenarios. KILO intersects live SLR-XA polygons with the parcel and reports buildable area at each step:

Worked example · A representative shoreline-abutting Oʻahu parcelParcel area 4,800 sq ft
Setback encumbered60 ft · ROH §26-1.4(b)1,200 sq ft
Buildable nowToday3,600 sq ftABOVE FLOOR
@ 1.1 ft SLRSetback dominates3,600 sq ftABOVE FLOOR
@ 2.0 ft SLRSLR-XA dominates2,800 sq ftABOVE FLOOR
@ 3.2 ft SLRSLR-XA dominates1,300 sq ftBELOW FLOOR
Color-coded against the 1,500 sq ft minimum-buildable-area floor the same ordinance protects. Shoreline approximated from the SLR-XA Vegetation Line (2005–2008); a DLNR-certified shoreline survey supersedes for actual permitting.
How it works

Three steps, before the fee proposal.

01
Screen at feasibility
Enter the parcel and get its cultural-resource, shoreline-setback, and buildable-area read before scope and schedule are committed.
02
See what the site demands
Where an AIS, a cultural monitor, or a setback variance is likely — each surfaced with its statute and citation.
03
Scope it honestly
Build the months and the fee for it into the proposal, instead of absorbing the slip when it surfaces at permitting.
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