To be fair, if you find yourself defending your design, you are with the wrong client. It should never be on the chopping block, once a project starts. If it is, then the budget is being mismanaged by either the client or the contractor. Or, the client fashions themselves as a bit of a designer. […]
Make sure your Conceptual Design and the corresponding Construction Documents are 100% complete before you begin construction. And push back against clients and contractors that want to push you to “whip up some basic drawings just to get started.” All fixtures, finishes, lighting, furniture, equipment, and every single material and effect needs to be sorted
That’s right. You are an architect, not an engineer or a contractor. So, don’t do their job for them. Simple as that. At the end of the day, you are not an engineer or a contractor (though you may have natural talents in these areas). Due to our experience and abilities in these areas, over
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Prologue: The Data Let’s get down to the brass tax. As a global species, we are now pumping almost 40 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. And over the past 50 years alone, global temperatures had risen by approximately 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The two trends are in lockstep with one another
We’re getting ready to roll out an entire month (4 blogs in total) of sustainability design themed essays and we wanted to take care with the first one to discuss what the basic premise of Net-Zero design is and some strategies to implement this important sustainable design approach. Just briefly, Net-Zero Energy, often abbreviated as
