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Do Small Firm Architects Need Professional Liability Insurance?

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Relative to the other expenses of a small firm, professional liability insurance is down right expensive… until you need it. If our business systems failed and the firm was required to defend itself without a policy, we certainly would have been crushed by the costs involved in such a legal action.

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Behind The Design 006: Get Space Vancouver by Jarod Hall of di’velept design

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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. With clients? With contractor? How involved was your client throughout the design process? Click here to learn how.

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Dezeen survey finds 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse Brexit "catastrophe"

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The EU is a vital market for UK architects and construction industry. It is even harder for small firms to compete on salaries." "One Our contractors quite often mention that skilled labour is in shorter supply, which leads to less quality on site and higher prices for labour." Salaries have risen.

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Building An Agile, Lean Practice in the Digital Age

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As many of you may already know, tomorrow is a big day for small firm architects. . The past 5 years have seen a dramatic shift in the architecture industry. Larger firms are going after smaller projects that they wouldn’t have touched before. Sprinting series. To some extent, this definition is true.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Provide Construction Administration On Every Project

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Here is a recent comment from the group; “I need to get better at selling my clients on construction administration. I had a recent client back out on (the service) because my drawings were essentially too well done. Once they saw the final drawings, they decided the contractor could handle it without my involvement.”.

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Is your architecture website hurting your firm?

EntreArchitect

That approach leaves potential clients struggling to understand what makes one firm better than the other. Prospects won’t understand the value your firm provides unless you communicate it. This lack has larger repercussions for the industry at large, resulting in: Increased commoditization (which drives firm fees down).

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The Future of Practice Operations

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At the core, it layers all the data we need in one place and outputs different forms of visuals for you to make design decisions with your team, consultants, or clients in much less time. Every firm in the architecture industry depends on a variation of spreadsheets. show our clients exactly what they’re paying us.