Architectural Services
Our core architectural services includes:
Sketch Design
- Analysis of your design brief and site specific requirements
- Analysis of statutory regulations that apply to your site (including planning and building regulations)
- Prepare sketch drawings to best describe our proposal, likely to include plans, diagrams and/or sketches to explain the design to you
- Prepare design briefs for the consultants
- Arrange and attend meetings with client, relevant authorities and consultants as required by the project
- Prepare preliminary selections of materials and finishes
Design Development
- Develop the approved sketch design into a final design solution with drawings and details to best explain the design
- Coordinate the design work by consultants with the architectural design
- Prepare appropriate drawings and reports for planning application (as appropriate to the project)
Design Documentation
- Prepare drawings, details and schedules to best enable your project to be tendered
- Coordinate the design work by consultants with the architectural drawings
- Prepare a specification describing materials, finishes and workmanship to compliment our architectural drawings to be tendered
Contract Administration
- Tendering (if required)
- Administration
- Prepare documents for you and your builder for signing
- Undertake regular site inspections
- Coordinate consultants
- Provide instructions to clarify the contract documents, as required
- Administer variations and obtain your approvals to make any changes to the contract documents
- Arrange and attend site meetings as required by the project
- Provide you with regular reports on your project
- Assess progress claims, issue progress certificates, assess other such claims
- Prepare defects lists towards the completion of your project
- Issue notice of practical completion