Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

I’m just an office manager. link] Bob Borson you are not just an office manager – you are my friend and I think you’re pretty awesome. [link] Bridget Willard Interesting. Apathy for the untrained. link] Bridget Willard Sorry. link] Bridget Willard Aww. Thanks Bob. BTW my eyes are leaking.

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EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Every magazine and blog is running an article about how to plan for 2014. In order to keep my work week productive and manageable, I don’t schedule meetings on Monday. This keeps my day open and my time free to properly manage the remaining days of the work week. Review Financial Reports and Manage Payables.

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Archmark

APRIL 19, 2021

On-page optimization: Ensure you’re using relevant search terms in your URL and title tags. Use alt tags to describe images, as images can’t be ‘read’ by search engine spiders. Offer valuable content packed with your expertise for their blog. It can include blogging, articles, e-books, videos, and webinars.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Pingback: Architecture Blogging: 21 Blog Post Ideas for Professional Architects | Business Blogging Tactics aayushi how about architect + civil engineer…… ???? Might be fodder for a different blog. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' I love you Building - Happy. Send to Email Address.

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Community Architect Daily

JULY 28, 2022

Ruppert says that the team managed to get the demographics right: 45% of all vendors will be black owned and nearly half of all will be woman owned. million rescue money on top of the initial price tag. First there was a funding gap stemming from risen cost, a problem that Mayor Scott deftly solved by putting $4.9

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 5, 2014

She’s volunteering her time and expertise again this year, and will be the design team’s lead architect and project manager. Rik Master, the senior manager of sustainability at USG, says the school is in an historic neighborhood with some beautiful old buildings. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' Your Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 2, 2014

Home / Blog / To Delete or Not To Delete … To Delete or Not To Delete … Bob Borson — April 3, 2014 — 91 Comments There are times when I am a glass is half-full sort of person and there are times when I am a glass-half-full-needs-to-be-poured-over-your-head type person. To sum up, I am not my blog.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 7, 2016

An Email Management System for Architecture Firms. A question I am often asked by members of EntreArchitect Academy is, “How do you manage the many email messages for your architecture projects? Searching through thousands of messages in our email inbox is NOT an email management system. Automating Email Management.

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Community Architect

JANUARY 28, 2022

Many in person meetings in joyless and windowless conference rooms were already largely digital It has been observed that middle managers spend 35% of their time in meetings. The employees in upper management spend 50% of their time in meetings. Their names were on the display, no need to read a name tag across the room.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. If I can come up with a good purpose for Instagram and put it in use, I’m sure I can manage to maintain a decent account.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 15, 2013

I read your intern blog and really enjoyed it so I found myself looking at all of your other ones as well. may I make a suggestion for a blog post? Yet I’ve learned so much and now i feel so much more mature and able to deal with all of the stresses of studio management and presentations ect. Greetings from Florence!

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

I am currently sitting in my preferred “blog-writing” spot on the couch, it’s Sunday afternoon and rather than finish the post I’ve started, I’m more in the mood to work on my vacation plans. Why not do both … a blog post on my vacation? Would love to be tagging along for the ride.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 20, 2014

One upside of working many jobs is that you get to experience all sorts of different project types, firm sizes, and management techniques. If you manage to add these traits to how you go about performing your duties, you will find that you are in an excellent position to take advantage of those opportunities when they present themselves.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 16, 2014

Since I am currently recovering from a 6 hour time difference, about all I have managed to do so far is look through some of the holiday photos I took – it’s what we architects like to do post holiday. I was told to “get out of the picture” and this was the best I could manage. Send to Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I let the site manager for KRob know what was going on and I think they are trying to remedy the situation as we speak. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' fingers crossed!!] kerry hogue when if first moved to dallas in 1977, the KRob was obviously all hand drawn entries. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

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. As a new firm, you’ll have every role and responsibility necessary for managing a firm.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 14, 2014

I got along quite well in this firm, had a terrific relationship with senior management, and they were happy to have me working in the office. For me, the vegetables were the technical aspects of the practice; the project management, client development, building envelop detailing, etc. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.'

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Cheers Mark Mc Swain Certainly counts as bad a design rationale as a management one. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' like your portofolio [link] Bob Borson My firms website is [link] – there is loads to see there. link] Lee Calisti, AIA I do agree with the premise and the way your worded working out differences.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' I try and keep things light and share a thing or two about what I think I know. Send to Email Address. Your Email Address. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Email check failed, please try again.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

The other thing that students (and some professionals) struggle with is the time management associated with communicating your ideas. If you have good time management skills, you can definitely keep a balance of social life and school, but it can get difficult when you also have a job, other classes, and spend 40+ hours a week in studio.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 2, 2014

Robert Rockefeller Bob, my first post on your blog. Not wanting to hold the project schedule up, we tend to be paranoid and think further ahead than the architect (construction management) and the builder. I ama big fan of your blog and your work. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' anyway that apart.

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EntreArchitect

MARCH 29, 2015

The blog is one of the most effective tools a small firm architect can use to foster community. The goal when writing a blog is to gain an audience. If not managed properly, writing a post can easily consume most of a work day to complete. I write for my blog on the same day each week. Schedule time to write.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 1, 2013

You soon learn who is the overachiever and who needs to be managed a bit closer. How it gets handled presents a slippery slope for management. We do not support the “earn while you learn” business model which makes it that much more important that tasks get done in a manageable manner. Send to Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 6, 2014

I’m not sure I would have made this observation had I not started writing this blog and posting my sketches for others to view. Tej Kanitkar Hi, Mr. Borson, first off, longtime reader and fan of your blog. Thanks for your blog- I always look forward to it! It’s kinda freaky to be honest. Douglas McClure I agree.

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Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Home / Blog / Out with the Old, In with the New Out with the Old, In with the New Bob Borson — December 30, 2013 — 58 Comments It’s pre-dawn on a Sunday and I am currently sitting in my kitchen, the rest of my house still in bed, trying to get my bearings in place before the new year kicks off in earnest.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Window tags _in plan??_ I found a whole new appreciation for manual drafting and line weights in the last year of my undergrad (Construction Managment). As soon as I start managing a project under construction, I’ll definitely post more construction photos. A article on layer management would be useful.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 18, 2014

My heartfelt thanks go out to all that participated, and congratulations are in order to the following designers: Designer : Zarina Ateig – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Bio : I’m a recent architecture and project management graduate from Toronto, who moved half way across the world looking for an awesome job. ” a lot.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 30, 2014

To give you an idea, in a comparative test conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratories (a multi-program science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy), researchers built two identical 2,600 sq. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' Send to Email Address. Your Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Luckily for me, I managed to pull myself together in time and figure out how to go about my business. Deciding to write this blog has in many ways become a watershed moment for me in my career. Get yourself an architectural blog and that number will grow to 10 Million times. and What are you actually good at doing?

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 5, 2014

Home / Blog / Goals versus Resolutions Goals versus Resolutions Bob Borson — January 6, 2014 — 21 Comments This is the time of year when people tend to identify something they want to change about themselves and they make a “New Years Resolution” Let me go on the record as saying that I HATE New Years resolutions.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Home / Blog / Responsibility: Don’t Be a Dunce Responsibility: Don’t Be a Dunce Bob Borson — September 16, 2013 — 24 Comments Did you know that the word “dunce” is meant to refer to someone who is a slow learner? But wait, that’s right … those people don’t have blogs.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 18, 2014

It didn’t help matters that the construction company went through 3 project managers and 4 or 5 project superintendents during this project – every time I would make some headway into creating some goodwill between us and the contractor, that person would get fired, or simply disappear. Joe Diaz Bob, thanks for the insight.

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EntreArchitect

JULY 10, 2018

The same goes for tracking time, managing expenses, collaborating with contractors, and viewing financial reports. Little by little it starts to creep up on you and if you don’t know how to manage it, you really can get yourself stuck in a position where you feel really trapped. Fast, easy, maybe even life changing.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

fuhh…~~~ Susan Niblo I am enjoying your blog very much. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' If using software to describe everything, the constrain is time and i dare to be said that it’s frustrating when the client turn down that design and change everything from the start. I couldn’t agree more with you.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 12, 2018

He gave that up to pursue his vision of creating energy efficient healthy homes, first as operations manager at a high performance panelized building manufacturer, then as a residential designer and passive house consultant. I’m overseeing several architects and drafters and also managed business development and marketing.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

Love your blog. Didn’t really manage my time correctly so I ended rushing the model building. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' . “If I had to spend any time in this building, I think I would put a bullet in my brain.” ” I stood up and left, not caring to hear any more. Send to Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

I am frequently asked to tell the story behind how this blog got started and why I continue to write. … 600 blog posts?!?” In school, I found that if I just picked a point in space (typically my actual presentation) and worked to that point, things were more manageable. link] Bob Borson eye on the prize!

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