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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. A grand stair: obstacle and opportunity (Photo: Philipsen) The project, designed for $40 million is behind schedule now, even though the shell has been complete for some months.

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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. Schedule Project Tasks. Take 10 Minutes of Quiet.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 5, 2014

I have been asked to help spread the message of a program called “ AEC Cares “ as they tackle this year’s project – a non-profit children’s day care. This is the fourth year that AEC Cares is taking on a charitable project that will take place the day before the American Institute of Architects opens its Annual Convention.

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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…… ???? link] Bob Borson thanks Tina Caroline My husband is an electrical engineer (we met on a project) and I’d have it not other way.

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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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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

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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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

In this moment, most people are concerned about how their project will be received but the real value lies in the time spent presenting. The person in school that you thought had terrible designs – but could talk about their project - will be your boss. may I make a suggestion for a blog post? Greetings from Florence!

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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. I used to talk about the projects in the latest design magazines, the current exhibition at the museum – whatever that was going on – with one of the design partners all the time.

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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

MARCH 2, 2014

Home / Life in General / Introducing the CHouse Modern Introducing the CHouse Modern Bob Borson — March 3, 2014 — 27 Comments First off let me acknowledge that I need to start working on better names for my projects … first it was the ‘ KHouse Modern ‘ and now we have the ‘CHouse Modern.’

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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. done and gone.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Being able to tell someone what to do is not the key to a successful project, it’s all about collaboration. Furthermore that the more opinions they sought out the more confused they seemed to be getting and therefore this project will stall unless they made some clear cut decisions. I trust you.” Devina Wahyudi Hi, Bob.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 7, 2014

When you’re in school, you don’t get to decide the project type you will be working on – that gets determined by your professor. Surviving Architectural School Despite the urban legends that you’ve heard about that person who stayed awake for 6 straight days to finish his project, Architecture school is terrific.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Bill Reeves I’m not sure most people understand the work that goes into a project and therefore the value of our work. We were fired from a project by a husband and wife because I didn’t already have the project done. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' Oh yeah … inspiration.

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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. Great tip, right?

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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. Sketching Out a Design Solution I received an email asking if I would share details from some of my projects. Tej Kanitkar Hi, Mr. Borson, first off, longtime reader and fan of your blog.

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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. An example: apparently there was a budget of about 350-400 hrs on a project. He relayed to us that we had taken over 800 hrs for said project.

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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. It took time to gain an audience.

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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. homes, one made of SIPs and one with conventional wood framing and fiberglass insulation.

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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

MAY 18, 2014

Having children on the judges panel is extraordinarily valuable and I would recommend to anyone considering entering a playhouse into this competition in the future that they ask a child to review their project. We’ve spent countless hours in the school’s computer lab working on studio projects and eating too much takeout.

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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). Also, I would love to see more project photos on Instagram if possible. In your second floor plan image, you mention making the window tags non-directional.

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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

JUNE 18, 2014

I had a commercial project that I inherited when I started working at a new firm that had just started construction. It was a publicly bid and awarded project and I had no knowledge of this particular construction company. Going through this experience fundamentally changed who I was and how I did my job.

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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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EntreArchitect

JULY 10, 2018

I’m working on a couple projects, local projects in lA. And so we were working with some clients that have a few projects and they’ve hired us to try to do a little bit more interesting work than what they’re probably used to. Find what you need fast and make more money on every project.

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EntreArchitect

JUNE 12, 2018

Do you know how to calculate the exact amount you need to charge your clients in order to earn 20 percent profit on that project? Ended up working there for over 10 years in pretty much every capacity, but mainly as a designer and as a project manager, for the last several years there I managed the design department.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Okay, maybe some go into the project drawer. This is a sketch from project that I am currently working on – the KHouse Modern. I am a big believer that if your drawings look like you cared when you drew them, the contractor will pick up on that when they are working on the project. I couldn’t agree more with you.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 27, 2014

They don’t realize how difficult it is to stand up in front of a room full of your classmates and professors and “explain” why you designed your project the way you did. It sucks” FYI, he lost the project. That project died that week and the client sold the property for a huge profit. Love your blog.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Home / Design / KHouse Modern – Progress Update 03 KHouse Modern – Progress Update 03 Bob Borson — October 14, 2013 — 36 Comments If your new here at Life of an Architect, say hello to the KHouse Modern project. One other item that we are considering is the texture on the concrete walls that are in use on the project.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Even thought this is a cost+ project, the contractor has prepared a budget bid price and we have made some revisions to save some money – most of which were structural changes. This rendered site plan still shows the vegetative roof – something that we were pursuing since this will be a LEED for Homes certified project.

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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?!?” I have pretty much worked every weekend for the last 6 months on my side projects and it felt weird to just do nothing. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' thanks bob.

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Life of an Architect

OCTOBER 27, 2013

002″ (all hatches projected and cut) 2. 002″ (all projected lineweights and annotations) 3. Xiaosheng Wu Hi bob Your post is great, and I start writing my own blog because of that. I managed to pare down the list to a handful of useful abbreviations and banned the rest. ie @ 1:100 or 1/8″:1′: 1.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Tears for Fears – Songs From the Big Chair My first project where I was the lead project manager was a condominium in Tampa , Florida. As I get older I look back across my 32 years in this profession and see how one project of one moment, good or bad adds up to the whole of my career. Send to Email Address.

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Life of an Architect

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

For this reason, It’s difficult for us (as management) to require our employees to work at a different set of requirements than we ourselves are prepared to work. This means that as a younger person, you get to share in the excitement that an owner generally has over the development and construction of their new project.

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