Working with Others

BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – BLUEPRINT HOME DESIGN CONSULTANTS

WORKING WITH OTHERS

I can reckon only one condition worse than governance and that is more of it. Before The Architect

Working together . . .

"How available are you when questions arise during construction?" asked a recent, prospective client.

AG and The Missus are available for questions about home designing and home building from the first moment of a client prospect's presentation to well after the dealing's done and the residents are resident. Most of the time, such interrelationship occurs up to general contractors start general contracting. Those times involve, principally, working with clients, and may involve working with third parties, including but not limited to suppliers, technical representatives of this and that, engineers, etc.

The one group with whom AG and The Missus have never so far worked in home designing alongside clients is with any building authority having jurisdiction. Once in a while, a client will ask 'em for a clarification of a local amendment to a Code or their interpretation of something or other, but only once in a while. Governance, especially enabling governance, has not been in home designer life experience in working with clients. Kudos for never-before-seen, so thorough plans, yes. Any other interaction - not that there's been much of it - has been obstructive and unhelpful and, by memory's recall, not too bright. Moral: High, shared standards of home designing and home building each day keep government away.

Overall, once the home building begins, the well-experienced general contractor and crews are not only well-experienced in home building but also, given the general state of home designing comprehension and home plan construct, are also well-experienced in adapting to not only materials and conditions, but plans that gap all sorts of details from footings to ridge vents.

AG supposes that he's eminently available when questions arise during construction, though it’s almost never happened –

One dimension check in a majorly complex foundation wall line while the formwork was going in

One dimension check in a roof dormer setup

Advisory that a client had better consider getting some other truss guys to form up the roof after the client quoted the engineer’s opening, written comments . . . doofus . . . drivel . . . d’uh

Preparatory to building, advisory to a client that the two engineers, each with his own construction company, might be held suspect court of interest conflict harkening the shrill sounds of kaching-kaching, given their extraordinarily extraordinary foundation plans

Predominantly, post-design matters get resolved by

	Clients who know whassup with the plans and the build, based on their developmental experiences with Before The Architect, including a close read of the e-book – a complimentary part of working with Before The Architect
	General contractor and subs who know that the client knows whassup with the plans and the build (more important than all the rest taken together) . . . good contractors and subs’ll seek you out for advice and consent, happy not to design on the fly for folks who haven’t a clue and lesser contractors and subs’ll run like their hair was on fire or bitch and moan and deride and blame, blame, blame
	The detail of the plans – gotta have it, gotta know it and gotta know why it’s what it is . . . on you
	The beneficial relationship which keeps on giving from a careful selection of the general contractor

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