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The Commercial Design Process: How it Works in Cape Town

DesignScape Architects

Commercial architectural design is a complex, multi-layered process that requires detailed planning, research, and collaboration. Undertaking your own commercial design project can feel a little daunting. This blog will cover: What Is Commercial Architectural Design? In Cape Town, architects operate the same as anywhere else.

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Meet the Team: Who Works with an Architect on a Design Project?

DesignScape Architects

Whether you are designing a traditional home or your interests lie in large scale commercial buildings, you will find many different people involved in the construction process. Especially for commercial properties or a project that requires cost and construction time to be accurate. Let’s get started.

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The high cost of low maintenance

BD+C

This article will identify the primary causes of engineering failures, define proactive versus reactive maintenance, recognize the reasons for deferred maintenance, and identify the financial and safety risks related to deferred maintenance. The longer maintenance is deferred, the more the structure deteriorates.

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Career as an Architect-Building the Future!

The Arch Insider

This is applicable to residential, commercial, as well as industrial properties. Apart from that, making the structures visually appealing, and designing the interiors, and the landscape; could also fall under the scope of work of an architect, varying from client to client. However, the role of an architect extends way beyond this!

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Career as an Architect-Building the Future!

The Arch Insider

This is applicable to residential, commercial, as well as industrial properties. Apart from that, making the structures visually appealing, and designing the interiors, and the landscape; could also fall under the scope of work of an architect, varying from client to client. However, the role of an architect extends way beyond this!

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Grenfell Tower in West London: Fire Inquiry

e-architect

Naming specific policies here, he said “Deregulation and the ‘war on the culture of health and safety’ facilitated the use of the inflammable cladding that destroyed Grenfell Tower… privatisation weakened public services and introduced conflicts of interest between safety and profit as we have seen in the testing and certification regimes”.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

link] Tyler Adams Since I’ve used this in a commercial application, I can answer to this, at least to a degree. As a structural engineer they do present issues when lateral loads start becoming large enough that the standard Simpson strap-tie holdowns cannot resist those loads. link] Michael T. Man was meant to work.

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