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Coming Fast: A Driver of Industry Change

SW Oregon Architect

It is increasingly common for the BIM model to be controlled by the contractor, and other roles subsumed beneath it, that of architects included.” The problem is attaining this mastery is presently beyond the reach of most small firms.

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Behind The Design 003: Canal House by The Ranch Mine

EntreArchitect

The Ranch Mine. Firm Address. We were 50/50 equity partners in the project with the General Contractor. With contractor? We had complete control over the design of the project with input from the General Contractor and 50/50 partner of the development. Project Name. Canal House. Project Location. Phoenix, AZ.

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Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

This is the transcript from EntreArchitect Podcast Episode 226, Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects. If you don’t know how, learn how by downloading our free course profit for small firm architects today at EntreArchitect.com/freecourse. Start Transcript. LePage: . My name is Mark R.

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Profile of an Architectural Intern – Part One

Life of an Architect

A while back I wrote a post titled “ Architectural Interns ” where I stated: Other than slowing things down, interns aren’t very useful in small firms because we run fast and lean. There are at least a thousand more me’s out there, looking for a gig like mine.

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A Day in the Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

It’s not too often that these projects stop evolving at the end of the construction document phase – and being around to make sure that the contractor has the answers they needs – when they need them – and we can make sure that the design vision is able to be carried through into the finished project.

Architect 101
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The Ultimate Guide to Streamlining Your Architectural Production Process

EntreArchitect

Mine is assembled in a Word document, and is laid out as a narrow column that fits a half-width of my standard NCS sheet module. The only place ‘contextual’ notes are used is in detail drawings (where keynotes are not as effective for the contractors). Step 1: Your Master Specification. Step 4: Scheduling. Fourth is scheduling.

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Growing Beyond the Sole Practitioner (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

You are listening to EntreArchitect podcast, so that makes you a member of our dedicated community of small firm architects. This is episode 225 and this week my friend Cavin Costello is back from The Ranch Mine and he’s back to talk about Growing Beyond the Sole Practitioner. Start Transcript. LePage: .

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