architecture, planning, engineering & building commissioning consultants
architecture, planning, engineering & building commissioning consultants
Everyone involved in a building project wants it to be successful. This includes the stakeholders, design team, architects, engineers, contractors, lawyers, and sub-consultants. However, it is not enough to ‘want’; there are key design factors that determine whether a building project will turn out to be successful or not. The purpose of this book is to highlight those factors that can make or mar a building project. These factors affect all kinds of building projects regardless of budget, size, or opportunity. Inside, you will find solutions to factors that contribute to errors, omissions, and inaccuracies in the bid documents so that they may be corrected prior to construction.
As far as building projects are concerned, everyone is responsible regardless of what role or function. Any error that is not discovered at any stage can go on to affect other areas. Often time, the error snowballs into multiple problems. For instance, a simple flaw in the contract documents can metamorphose into a design flaw that can end up undermining the entire project. Smart developers, architects and contractors understand and appreciate the value of a clear and concise set of bid documents.
It should be said at this point that there are no perfect sets of documents. As all humans are involved, there is bound to be some measure of deficiency. This book exists to reduce those deficiencies to the barest minimum and to provide added value with recommended corrective measures and tools that the reader can take action on existing projects.
The world of architecture and construction is rife with design flaws that are usually kept secret from building owners, owner representatives, procurement officers, and facility managers. The results are unplanned cost overruns, inaccurate cost estimates, design errors, added time, and reduced resources. A careful study of this book will reveal the inner workings of the design and construction industry. This will help you understand how construction projects are planned, frequent design flaws, and how to optimize contract documents. The principles in this book were distilled from years of experience and constant learning. They are specially curated to help the seasoned and non-trade professionals spot built-in problems and flaws that typically escape the untrained eyes.
The goal of this book is to help you save time, money, and resources. If your building project works out without major disputes, delays, or surprises, then this book will have achieved its purpose. The content of this book includes design and construction secrets, problematic design issues, case studies and solutions. While you can begin at any chapter, it is advisable that you go through the book sequentially. This will provide a gradual but sure reveal into the inner workings of the design and construction industry.
By reading this book, you are taking the first step towards managing and reducing construction errors relevant to your building project!
THE BIGGEST SECRETS OF THE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REVEALED
THE BIGGEST SECRETS OF THE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REVEALED
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See illustrations of competition entry, The Knollies, submitted by APECx LLC Principal Architect, Kenneth D. Michel published in T3XTURE journal NO.4.
Jury Comments: " The Knollies project is whimsical and certainly adds a flair of fun. The concept speaks to the swimmable and fishable harbor, and acknowledges the history of lighthouses to the harbor and bay."
For this issue, T3XTURE collaborated with the Baltimore AIA and the Baltimore Architectural Foundation to organize a series of presentations and a competition to promote fresh thinking about edge specifically addressing the Baltimore Waterfront. In 2015, Baltimore’s Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative set a goal of a swimmable and fishable Inner Harbor by the year 2020. We asked, How might the edge of the harbor change?
We invited a diverse group of thinkers: philosopher, environmentalist, ornamentalist, an ecological engineer, architect, landscape architects, educators, authors, and geographer, to address our questions about the future of Baltimore’s edge. In the spirit of the Sun Magazine article, we also invited Maryland architects to present visions of a swimmable, fishable Inner Harbor. In 1985 Baltimore Sun Magazine invited architects to imagine Baltimore in 2010 or 25 years into their future. In Laura Fry’s article, After the Millennium: Baltimore in 25 Years, four proposals addressed the Inner Harbor, which in the early 1980s had become an international model for revitalizing cities. Issue No.4 of T3xture is a collaboration with the Baltimore AIA and the Baltimore Architectural Foundation to organize a competition and a series of papers to promote fresh thinking about edge specifically addressing the Baltimore Waterfront. In 2015, Baltimore’s Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative set a goal of a swimmable and fishable Inner Harbor by the year 2020.
T3XTURE is an annual, international publication for architects, artists, writers, and designers interested in the haptic in architecture and art. Texture in architecture is the layering of geography, structure, space, constructions, materiality, digital fabrications, passages, ideas, and the movements of human activity in a composition, thus determining the overall qualities of a form or place. T3xture seeks to elevate the discourse on texture to the level currently paid to space and tectonics. Each issue collects architectural projects, drawings, poems, and photographs from contributors from all over the world.