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How to Make More Money as a Small Firm Architect

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Like any small business, architects must pay the typical operating expenses required to remain buoyant, such as utilities, professional service fees, consultants’ fees, insurances and several other overhead expenditures. Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), must earn a profit.

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Almost 40 Tips for Starting an Architecture Firm

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Almost 40 tips for Starting an Architecture Firm. After obtaining my license as an Architect in New York, I brainstormed several long term goals and decided to start a personal blog, develop design projects, and learn everything that I could about starting an architecture firm.

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Behind The Design 005: River House by H. Sloane Mayor of UK Architects

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Consultants. Firm Address. Yes and as I joined with UK Architects we continue to provide a fee estimate based on construction cost and estimated hourly output with some tasks, such as meetings, billed hourly. Project Name. River House. Project Location. Hanover, NH. UK Architects. Architect’s Name. Sloane Mayor.

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Behind the Design 002:HillHouse by Zack / de VitoArchitecture + Construction

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Consultants. Firm Address. We typically bill T&M, with an estimated cap which has a percent of construction cost adjustment. EntreArchitect: Behind the Design is a weekly blog series where we feature work designed, developed and/or built by small firm entrepreneur architect members of The EntreArchitect Community.

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The 6 Critical Steps to a Profitable Architecture Firm

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Wintner, AIA, Emeritus, an architecture management consultant and co-author of the book, Financial Management for Design Professionals: The Path to Profitability. The following is a direct, effective and accurate method for starting the financial management (FM) planning process for your firm, regardless of the size of your firm.

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Every Architecture Project Has Four Corners

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Successful project delivery relies on the manager’s understanding of the constraints and goals of the project, both those of the firm and those of the client. Estimated Cost of Construction. Work with your cost estimator to make this happen. Corner 4: Estimated Cost of Construction. The Four Corners of Every Project.

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New Year. New Budget.

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This past week, at EntreArchitect Academy , we launched the new Academy format with a live expert training session presented by Rena Klein, FAIA of RM Klein Consulting titled Financial Management: Key Concepts. Our budget will allow us to estimate our revenue and expenses for the year. Keeping It Simple. Cut unnecessary expenses.