Honolulu Permitting Inspector OK’d His Own Company’s Projects 2 The county permitting department said it had no idea one of its inspectors was approving his own company’s work.
An inspector in Honolulu’s permitting department has been running an electrical company on the side for over a decade and has inspected and approved more than a dozen of his own projects, public records show.
Arthur Suverkropp, a supervising electrical inspector, is also the head of K&A Electric. The Honolulu-based company has applied for some 350 permits from DPP since 2007, according to city permitting data.
On 18 of those permits, issued between 2012 and 2021, Suverkropp is listed as the electrical inspector. In two instances, the permits show that the homeowner had been working with a different electrical company but switched to K&A Electric in the middle of the project.
In response to Civil Beat’s findings, Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting said on Tuesday it had begun an investigation.
Honolulu Permitting Inspector OK’d His Own Company’s Projects
