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Who Needs To Know?

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Firms are sharing project contracts and budgets more openly across teams as a matter of staff engagement. Landscape architecture offices are competing for creative, productive talent in spheres much broader than their peer groups in other design offices. PAUL KISSINGER, FASLA: They have to know the contract. It’s kind of basic.

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Managing Your Client’s Happiness

EntreArchitect

One of the keys to success for small firm architects is client satisfaction. Keep the client happy throughout the project and that happy client will lead you to more happy clients. Our clients don’t like surprises. Manage their expectations and you will manage their happiness.

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Better Project Management for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

11 Steps To Better Project Management Systems for Architects. One of the most important of all the tasks we perform as architects is Project Management. If managed poorly, a single project may set our progress back years. If managed well, it can take us to great heights. Create systems for success. Listen carefully.

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What’s the Best Testing Order for ARE 5.0?!?

Young Architect

Practice Management (PcM). Project Management (PjM). Project Planning and Design (PPD). Practice Management Exam (PcM). This exam is all about establishing a business, laws, ethics, contracts, and business structure. Project Management Exam (PjM). Think: Management of resources. Here’s an example: 1.

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How the AIA’s New Custom Residential Agreements Help Custom Home Architects and Contractors

EntreArchitect

President, Bell Architecture APC and Leonard Kady, FAIA, Principal, Leonard Kady Architecture + Design. The first AIA Contract Documents (ACD) of their kind, ACD’s new Custom Residential Documents streamline the contractual process for architects by tailoring them for the distinctive requirements of the custom residential construction market.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Invoicing clients, . Managing their clients and employees. Sure, sometimes designing and drawing pretty pictures are part of an Architect’s day, but that’s really just a very small piece of every project. Unlike school, time and money sometimes dictate the design of the project. Working on construction drawings.

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Entrepreneur Architect Academy 012 | My 10 Rules for Better Project Management

EntreArchitect

We started with your Personal Productivity and we’ll wrap it up here with Project Management. One of the most important of all the tasks we perform as architects is Project Management. If managed poorly, a single project may set our progress back years. If managed well, it can take us to great heights.