EntreArchitect

JULY 3, 2018

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. Robert Yuen builds tools and software.

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Small Firm Firms Project Architect 52

EntreArchitect

JANUARY 19, 2016

Seven years into owning our own small firm, Annmarie and I decided to make some changes. As a small firm architect with no investors, I use my accounting software to prepare two simple financial reports; my balance sheet and my income statement. Balance Sheet (Assets = Liabilities + Shareholders’ Equity).

Small Firm 52

Small Firm Firms Architect Management 52

EntreArchitect

JANUARY 17, 2017

In the name of diversification, many architects spread their workload across many building types and many markets. Too much diversification though, will dilute your brand and make it difficult for prospects to recognize your firm as a market leader. The Power of Being Centered. Photo Credit: Shutterstock / Min Chiu.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Clients 52

EntreArchitect

MARCH 21, 2017

Fees for Small Firm Architects. During a typical architectural project, we make thousands of decisions, work hundreds of hours and are responsible, by law, for the health, safety and welfare of the people using our buildings. We’re a disgruntled bunch of professionals. We are worth more. AIA Antitrust Guidelines.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Regulation 52

EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Relative to the other expenses of a small firm, professional liability insurance is down right expensive… until you need it. Relative to the other expenses of a small firm, professional liability insurance is down right expensive… until you need it. Have you experienced a situation where your policy saved your firm?

Insurance 52

Insurance Small Firm Firms Architect 52

EntreArchitect

APRIL 12, 2016

In this article Marica shares her recent experience with building a new team for her small firm and how she is being intentional about the culture in which they work. Using an Off-Site Retreat to Build a Better Business. I didn’t realize it at the time but I was beginning to define my firm culture.

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Small Firm Firms Development Developer 52

EntreArchitect

JULY 18, 2017

I’ve been continuously improving my firm’s project management systems since we launched in 1999. Every firm, with any experience, has many of these processes already in place. Before we grab the roll of trace and start sketching with the Sharpie, we gather as much information about the users of our buildings as possible.

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Small Firm Management Firms Project 52

EntreArchitect

JUNE 14, 2016

As small firm architects, we are responsible for so many different roles and responsibilities. In this post, I am sharing 6 tools that I have chosen and currently use to automate my own small firm. 6 Digital Tools to Automate an Architecture Firm. We can build real relationships using these online tools.

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Small Firm Firms Architecture Architecture Firm 52

EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

As small firm architects, work/life balance plays a critical role in the success of our businesses, as well as the success of our families. As small firm architects, work/life balance plays a critical role in the success of our businesses, as well as the success of our families. We call it #ArchiTalks.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Client 52

EntreArchitect

JANUARY 26, 2014

In the spirit of Entrepreneur Architect’s mission to help you build a better business, I will share that private information another day. Every year since Annmarie and I launched the firm in 1999, we’ve had a full workload. Don’t be deceived by the information I am presenting though. Prospects and Projects. How To Use This Data.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Contract 52

EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Creating a Building Rather than Designing It. But his designs were also incredibly difficult to achieve, as his goal was not simply to design a building, but to design a building almost as though it were living; creating a building rather than designing it. Generative Architecture for Small Firms.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Architecture 52

EntreArchitect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Starting a new business as a small firm architect or a new career trajectory is something you must experience on your own. Starting a new business as a small firm architect or a new career trajectory is something you must experience on your own. But it wasn’t going to be easy. You know the saying hindsight is 20-20?

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Small Firm Firms Architect Client 52

EntreArchitect

AUGUST 9, 2016

Build Your Platform. Build a community of people interested in what you do and what you have to say. The post How To Get Published as a Small Firm Architect appeared first on EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects. For some it’s a right of passage – a testament to hard work and years of focus.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Clients 52

Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Revalu platform uses one million data points and an AI -powered accuracy checker to enable architects to compare the environmental impacts of different building materials. She describes "a slight monopolisation happening" over sustainability in architecture, with small firms falling "very far behind".

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Materials Architect Small Firm Firms 129

EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects. Successful businesses must perform certain tasks and techniques consistently in order to be successful. One of those tasks is “sales” No sales. No business. No success. It’s as simple as that. When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Clients 52

EntreArchitect

JULY 25, 2016

For many of us small firm architects, this sounds a bit scary. If scheduled well in advance, communicated well throughout our our firms and project teams, and expectations are well managed before, during and after, shutting down for a week or two is not impossible. My work needed to continue and I needed to get things done.

Small Firm 52

Small Firm Firms Architect Management 52

EntreArchitect

MAY 26, 2014

Many small businesses, including many small architecture firms, after years of finding ways to keep the doors open are succumbing to the years of economic instability and calling it quits. We’re spending only what needs to be spent to build a stronger firm… and much sacrifice remains. I Have Always Found a Way.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Contract 40

EntreArchitect

APRIL 28, 2014

As small firm architects, “balance” should not be our goal. A Benefit of Being a Small Firm Architect. Starting and running a small firm requires sacrifice. As tough as building a better business may be though, the benefits of leading our own firms make the sacrifice well worth the pain.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Structure 40

EntreArchitect

APRIL 6, 2015

Every business, including architecture firms (yes, its true!), Most sole proprietors and small firms I know, struggle to meet the minimum requirements of operation. Since we launched our firm in 1999, most every prospective client I meet asks if Fivecat Studio offers construction services. must earn a profit.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Clients 52

Architizer

MARCH 20, 2023

Judged on the strength of their portfolios, the following trailblazing practices, each with 10 or fewer employees, were all recognized in the Best Small Firm category of the 10 th Annual A+Awards. While they may be small in number, their impact on the global landscape is mighty.

Architecture Firm 101

Architecture Firm Firms Small Firm Architecture 101

EntreArchitect

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Success is no longer a figment of our dreams, but a reality of our daily process. But It Has Not Been Easy. In 2008, after nine years of hard work, long hours and tremendous progress, things started to change. The economy was showing signs of the approaching storm clouds. Those plans included reducing hours and cutting salaries. Survival is Success.

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Small Firm Firms Architect Client 40

EntreArchitect

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Empowering architects to better serve the world with more than 681,000 total downloads in 2021, the EntreArchitect Podcast has grown to serve small firm architects from every corner of the planet. In this episode, we talk about their work as residential builders and share how other small firm architects can do it too.

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Small Firm Firms Architecture Firm Consulting 98

Architizer

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We’re delighted to introduce a NEW Best Firm Category to the 11th Annual A+Awards : Best X-Small Firm. Firms employing 1-5 staff are invited to throw their hats in the ring: Start Submission. If I asked you to describe the portfolio of a firm with five or fewer employees, what types of projects would you envision?

Architecture Firm 66

Architecture Firm Firms Small Firm Architecture 66

EntreArchitect

AUGUST 22, 2021

I recall when I worked with a large firm, a Steelcase sales rep was in the office going over a project. She informed us that one of our former clients was looking to buy a 52-story building and occupy it themselves. It was a major accomplishment at the time for the firm. John Kennedy of Louisiana, “…the short answer is yes!

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IT Firms Information Client 52

Deezen

JANUARY 12, 2022

In the third of the video Dezeen interviews filmed with Richard Rogers in 2013, the late architect discussed the Lloyd's building in London and the backlash prompted by its radical design. The building proved just as divisive as its forerunner in Paris. I mean, if we were building more-or-less a fun palace in Paris, this is a club.

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Building Insurance Technology Technology 70

Architizer

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The firm’s outstanding portfolio is a testament to its range and expertise, encompassing hospitality, retail, cultural, residential and corporate spheres. Rooted in a solid conceptual approach, the firm elevates functional design into inspiring schemes that envelop the senses.

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Firms Architecture Firm Architecture Small Firm 94

EntreArchitect

JUNE 19, 2019

It was a name on which we could begin to build our new brand of architecture. Michael Graves, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid; each built a firm and a strong brand using their own names. For the rest of us though, creating a new entity filled with character and creativity will help us build a memorable impression. That’s your brand.

Building 52

Building Architecture Small Firm Firms 52

Architizer

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AEC professionals are tasked with designing buildings that not only comfort, please and inspire their inhabitants but also meet the extraordinary challenges of today’s society. Catalyst Building by Michael Green Architects, 10th Annual A+Awards Finalist in the Architecture +Sustainability category. Start your submission today. .

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Environment Architect Small Firm Firms 98

Architizer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Calling all architects, landscape architects, interior designers and creative minds from around the world: This is your chance to celebrate your work on the global stage, and establish your firm as an innovative thought leader in the AEC industry.

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Space Architecture Firms Renovation 114

EntreArchitect

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The knowing application of physical realities with evolutions of the way we know how to build we can change our methods by reveling in our motivations first, outcomes second. It is not “technology” or “building” it is adding the human element that makes Craft. We add unnecessary complexities, criteria, even fully silly extrapolations.

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Building Architecture Technology Technology 52

Architizer

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a norm, society frequently sees architects as singular entities that design buildings and spaces through creative inception. Additionally, while large firms dominated the industry in terms of staff and revenue, small firms prevailed in terms of popularity. Indeed, one cannot operate without the other.

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Engineering Engineering Architecture Small Firm 135

EntreArchitect

MAY 25, 2015

For architects, especially those in small firms, nothing has changed much in the past 40 years. While most businesses have moved forward with modern business practices in management and human resources, the small firm is left behind and is having problems maintaining a strong productive team. It Begins On the First Day.

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Architecture Firm Firms Small Firm Building 52

Architizer

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The A+Awards is the largest architectural awards program celebrating the world’s most innovative buildings and spaces. While renowned architects deserve their praise, there are countless designers and creative minds working behind the scenes in firms around the globe, without whom the world’s best buildings could not be brought to fruition.

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Project Firms Architecture Architecture Firm 94

Archmark

MARCH 29, 2019

Recently, we asked Richard Marshall, Principal with Perkins+Will , about the importance of marketing for small firms, “The best organizations view marketing as just as important a skill set as design. If you don’t build a pipeline of work you have no work.”. “ If you don’t build a pipeline of work you have no work. ”

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Firms Building Architect Clients 95

SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 9, 2022

I recently happened to read two especially thought-provoking pieces online about the future of BIM (Building Information Modeling). He posits the future of BIM will not be BIM at all but rather a new technology— Building Information Optimization. The x-factor is the complexity inherent in the design process and making of architecture.

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Industrial Management Information Contractor 193

EntreArchitect

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Celebrating 7 Years Serving Small Firm Architects. All this month EntreArchitect is celebrating our 7th-anniversary serving small firm architects around the world. I promised to build an online platform to provide the information, business resources and training that was so lacking in our profession at the time.

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Small Firm Firms Architecture Firm Management 52

EntreArchitect

JANUARY 9, 2023

This could include designing a new building or improving upon an existing design. These include the energy efficiency tax credit, which allows architects to claim a credit for designing buildings that are more energy efficient, and the small business health care tax credit, which helps small businesses pay for employee health insurance.

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Architecture Firm Firms Insurance Architecture 97