The architectural services we provide are designed to offer you the education, training, experience and vision to guide you through the entire design and construction process. From helping you define what you want to build to helping you get the most for your construction dollar. Working with contractors and other construction professionals, we’ll help you facilitate a well-designed project that meets your needs and works with your budget and time frame.

Stage One: Important First Step: Inital Fesability Study

Stage Two: Programming / Schematic Design: Deciding What to Build
Architect and client discuss the goals, needs and function of the project. Design expectations, available budget, pertinent building codes and zoning regulations are reviewed and analyzed. The architect prepares a written statement setting forth the design objectives, constraints and criteria for the project including site and system requirements.

Stage Three: Design Development: Developing Initial Design Concepts
Once you’ve defined what you want to build, the architect will draw up a series of rough sketches known as schematic designs. These sketches will be refined and revised until a solution is developed that meets your needs. You’ll get a rough preliminary estimate of construction costs at this stage.

Stage Four: Construction Document Preperation
Detailed drawings and specifications are prepared that the contractor will use to establish actual construction costs and to build the project. These drawings and specs will become a part of the contract. They set forth in detail the requirements for the construction of the project.

Stage Five: Bidding/Negotiation
This phase is when the bidding documents, which consist of drawings and specifications, invitations to bid and bidding instructions are sent out to several different contractors. Once bids are received the architect will do a bid review, tabulation
and recommendation. Also, the architect will assist in negotiating and furnish a fairly accurate contractor
agreement. There may be negotiations as well.

Stage Six: Construction Administration
When construction begins, the project moves from an abstraction to a physical reality. Construction administration services include support and assisting the contractor, scheduling and administering job conferences, reviewing and approving the contractor’s applications for payment, change, orders and submittals. We follow through the project in its entirety by
maintaining an impeccable file documentation on each specific project.