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- Change orders and contractor overruns affecting your profit margins.
- What happens when you minimize the participation of the Architect?
- Did we mention the part about the Lawyers?
- Who can authorize changes?
If the documents are unclear you get bids that don't mean anything.
It starts here and gets worse.
A comprehensive list of the problems that can be encountered during a project would take up a large Website of its own.
The most common are:
- Planning Errors and Omissions
- Conflicts with HVAC, plumbing and electrical work and structure
- Structural Inadequacy
- Poor Indoor air quality
- Mold and mildew
- Errors during construction
There is only one group that benefits from bad architectural service... Lawyers.
When you minimize the participation of the Architect by having only permit drawings prepared, two things happen:
- The design documents show merely what the building looks like, rather than how it's to be built.
- The Architect does not participate in the construction process and you lose the person that ensures that what was designed is built.
When a job blows up in your face it's too late to say, 'I should have had an Architect work out my construction details'.
The architect is the legal arbiter of disputes between the Owner and the Contractor and has the final interpretations of the intent of the drawings. When you are dealing with only permit drawings, there are countless details that are not specified.
Vagueness will hurt everyone.
The Architect is the only person who can authorize changes to the construction documents.
When decisions are made in the field on the fly... who pays for the code violations? No matter how you look at it you need an Architect.
So what can go wrong? More than you can imagine if you do not have a complete set of construction drawings and specifications from a Architect committed to quality service.
Now that you know better what do you intend to do?
We suggest you rent the movie 'Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House'. It's a very funny comedy unless it's actually happening to you.
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