Contract administration helps you make sure that the new build or renovations project is constructed in accordance with the terms of your contract with your builder.
Month: June 2021
Selecting the Right Builder for Your Project
Builder Selection: After the Design Process is completed, you will be in a position to commence building. You may have a Builder already in mind and wish to receive and negotiate your Builder’s offer or you may prefer to go through a tender process with a number of Builders/tenderers, to get multiple offers and select… Continue reading Selecting the Right Builder for Your Project
Design Fees
Your design fees are an important consideration when selecting your Building Designer. So it is important to know up front what the Building designer is offering to deliver and what his/her fees are likely to be.
Design Journey for Meeting Your Aspirations
The Building Design process involves 3 design stages: Schematic design, Design Development, and Construction Documentation, at the end of which you can start building.
Healthy House for Your Well Being
A home that is free from condensation and mold, harmful internal air pollutants and irritants, pests, and noise is kind to you because it promotes your physical health and mental well being.
Passive House: The Ultimate in Efficiency & Comfort.
When your home is a Passivhaus, it is exceptionally kind towards you and the natural environment by ensuring your thermal comfort at minimal energy cost, while delivering clean air in a well built home.
Passive Solar Design Makes the Most of Our Sun’s Energy
A kind home regulates how much solar radiation enters your home to help keep you thermally comfortable. Such a home is sometimes called Solar Passive.
Supportive Accessible House Design for Your Safety
When your new or renovated home design is tailored to meet your needs now and can be modified easily in the future, then your home is kind to you because it can support you now and when your needs change.
On Writing Your Design Brief
It is vitally important to develop a comprehensive Starting Design Brief for every building design, which will evolve and change as the design progresses. Any changes are best made with your on going active involvement and approval.
Your Building Project Budget
Working out your building project budget is no easy matter. In this post we show you what is and is not included and give you an indication of how your budget changes as the building project progresses from the early ideas to the finished build.
Building Designers’ Copyright
Copyright does not protect design ideas. Instead copyright protects the person who expresses the design ideas in a physical material form.
Things to Note Before Our First Meeting
Before we can do any business with you, there are things that you should know about including: the information that we must have, the BAL levels that we can design for, copying other designers’ drawings, and our building cost estimates.