"design approval" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of officially granting approval or authorization for a particular design. Example: The committee was impressed with the proposed building design and gave their unanimous design approval.
"It was management by committee," Mr. Risku said, comparing the company's design approval processes to a "Soviet-style" bureaucracy.
British regulators in December gave conditional design approval to the proposed EPR pressurized water reactors after a four-year review.
Nonetheless, she said, the statue must still be reviewed by the City Art Commission for design approval and by the Department of Transportation for traffic and safety considerations.
The design, approval, and construction of nuclear power plants in the United States typically takes years, and fewer than three dozen new plants are being built or planned.
In this paper, the contributions of these tests to the standard design approval of SMART are discussed.
The UK Health and Safety Executive has invited public input into its Generic Design Approval (GDA) process for the assessment of new nuclear reactor designs (HSE 2009).
Final design approvals come from Mr. Trapani or his uncle, Paolo Bulgari, the company chairman, or another uncle, Nicola Bulgari, the vice chairman.
To complement the entitlements and design approvals, Mr. Pavlina has obtained a grading permit, allowing him to start preparing the land for construction, and he has applied for building permits.
The survey results indicated that design problems (i.e., design changes, constructability problems, delays in design approvals) is the most critical factor.
Ultimately, the design requires approval by the City Planning Department.
The design required approval by the city's Transportation Department and the local community board.
