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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. Entrants to the profession these days show a desire, principals and practice consultants say, for genuine enrollment in their firms and to support the firm’s evolution. This is not in our contract.

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A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects

EntreArchitect

Originally published in 2013 as Part 4 of the original EntreArchitect Academy Blog Series, this final article of our month dedicated to Business Development shares my firm’s simple sales system. When we present our initial schematic designs to our client, we are selling. A Simple Sales System for Small Firm Architects.

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The Best Architect Exam Prep Resources

The Architect's Guide

Project, Planning, & Design (PPD). Project Planning & Design (PPD) is an exam that tests your ability to design sites and buildings. It should be called “Schematic Design.” This exam is five long hours of you applying all of your critical design thinking to show that you can properly design a project.

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Successful Project Planning for Small Firm Architects (Transcript)

EntreArchitect

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. Listen to this podcast episode or download the audio file here.

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Becoming an Architect: What You’ll Need to Know

Young Architect

Candidates most commonly work within architecture firms where they begin to become familiar with the application of their education. They may assist in design projects, prepare documents as well as research specific building codes and many other tasks. Includes schedules, budgets, coordination, process and lots of AIA Contracts. .

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Managing Your Client’s Happiness

EntreArchitect

One of the keys to success for small firm architects is client satisfaction. With so many roles and responsibilities as a small firm architect, how might we ensure that our clients’ expectations are well managed? How do you communicate the completion of Schematic Design Phase and the commencement of Design Development?

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How to Find an Architect

Life of an Architect

If the projects are spread out between schematic design, design development, construction drawings, and construction administration, you can get away with larger ratios because the different level of skill positions required for each task can be sasigned to different individuals in the office.