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What's The Cheapest Way

2/15/2021

 
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Nature encourages economy and so does human nature.

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Rule Of Thumb for Expansion - Up? Out?

1/23/2021

 
Expansion
Look At What Others Do For A Clue.

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Conference Room Layout Rule Of Thumb

1/9/2021

 
Conference Room
SIZING A Conference Room

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How To Design - Schematic Design

12/6/2020

 
Schematic Design
The benefits of this Seven Step Process of Schematic Design

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Planning A Basement - Rule Of Thumb

10/18/2020

 
Basement
​Basements sound like a really good value -
​residential, yes; commercial, no.

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Accessible Plus

4/4/2020

 
Accessible Plus
​When your occupants are truly disabled, the ADA is inadequate. 

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Stories

3/28/2020

 
Stories
The inherent costs of your number of stories.

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The Technical Design Diagnostic

2/1/2020

 
Technical Design Diagnostic
Leverage Design Time
The best way to understand what a good design solution requires is NOT to start designing.

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Why Your Logo Should Be Square

1/11/2020

 
Logos

Square saves a lot of aggravation


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Commercial Stair Layouts - Rule Of Thumb

11/3/2019

 
Stairs
Stairs can ruin the design budget. Early planning is the antidote.

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The Inherent Premium For A 2-Sty Building - Rule Of Thumb

8/11/2019

 
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This is not at all obvious, but here is how it works.

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How Codes Affect Design - Rule Of Thumb

6/30/2019

 
CODES
Just about every project needs to address zoning and building codes.

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The Six Key Issues

4/14/2019

 
6 Key Issues
Every project faces 6 key issues.

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Coffee Bar Planning

3/17/2019

 
coffee bar
Our design of coffee bars / kitchenettes improved
immensely after we designed one for ourselves.
 

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How A Site Analysis Impacts Your Project

10/7/2018

 
Site Analysis
A Site Analysis is a tool for maximizing the opportunity that your project represents by telling you up front which paths of site development will lead to achieving your goals. ​

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Building Acoustics For Architects

9/18/2018

 
Acoustics
We have all experienced rooms with poor acoustics, particularly unwanted sound transmission. To avoid poor acoustics you need to design a workable solution and you need to see that your solution is implemented. 

Good Architectural Acoustics requires the use of just five simple concepts...

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Trash

7/29/2018

 
Trash
Have you ever tried to incorporate trash collection into a project during Construction Documents?

It is a mess, and the results will be less than stellar unless you go way in the hole by reworking lots of earlier decisions.
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How to avoid the situation next time is the topic of this post.

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Putting A Project Out For Bids

7/2/2018

 
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​Over the years we have bid a lot of projects both privately and publicly. We have also documented our process to avoid 'reinventing the wheel'. The following describes the steps in our process. Several of the documents or forms that we use are downloadable by clicking their name. Perhaps this will be helpful to you. 

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The Ideal Janitor's Closet

6/11/2018

 
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Most of us don't give a thought to a Janitor's Closet. We put a sink in a small room of 5'x5' and move on.

Well there's a little more to it if you want the space to serve the building owner. We learned what is really needed when we designed a supply warehouse for Banana Republic / The Gap. The owner's project manager, who was in charge of supplying the whole company with stuff for operating the individual stores, was basically an executive janitor.

​We received very specific requirements for the janitor's closet. I am passing on his wisdom to you.

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Zoning Analysis Tools

6/4/2018

 
Zoning
Zoning is an odd duck. Zoning is unique among codes because you might not be able to build.      Period.

Every other code will allow you to proceed if you can show compliance, which is generally just a matter of money - more of it.
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With zoning, no amount of money can buy permission to proceed if you don't meet the requirements.   Sometimes you have to wait a year before re-applying!

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Flat Roofs

5/28/2018

 
Flat Roofs

Flat Roofs Don’t Leak

Flat roofs have a bad reputation for leaks, but I don’t think flat roofs leak. My experience is that any leaks aren’t due to poor roofing or poor roof materials. The leaks are due to the flatness of the roof, which encourages use of the roof for HVAC equipment. 

Here is why that is a leak-producing situation, and what you can do about it. 
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Standard Details

5/20/2018

 
Standard Details
Image from Vulcraft
The ‘Standard Details’ concept is deceptively simple. “An easily accessed library of building details that describe how you like to do things.” Everybody gets that. 

Have you ever tried to do it?

Successfully?

I found success elusive. But it is worth a try. Here is why ...
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Project Delivery 101

5/6/2018

 
Project Delivery
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A year after I started my own firm, I was invited to design a hangar for my Dad's golfing buddy, who happened to have started an airline that was growing by leaps and bounds. We designed projects for his airline for about twenty years until they were bought out by one of the major airlines. One of the main skills that allowed us to keep up with their growth was my knowledge of project delivery methods - mostly book-learning, driven by interest.


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Designing A Truck Dock

4/22/2018

 
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There are a number of things about a truck dock that add up to truck docks needing to be more than an afterthought. 

I am not thinking of a distribution center when I say that. The docks are the central focus of that kind of building and will get plenty of attention. I am thinking here of the incidental truck dock that may be a convenience or an efficiency measure. In that case safety is a paramount concern, but every truck dock that isn't part of a professional trucking operation should have a safety focus because people will sometimes use the dock who haven't been trained. 

The first design step is to contact a local manufacturer's rep for dock levelers. They can look at your situation and give you great advice about the best way to set up the dock.
Here are a few things to consider about the dock, the building and the equipment:

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Need More Light Shelves

4/2/2018

 
There must be something wrong with this idea


The first sustainable project that I had a chance to be part of was offices for a Dutch candy manufacturer in the late 1990s. Among other things accomplished, we used Photovoltaic Panels as window awnings - collecting and using the sunlight while shading the window glass. I am sure that is where this ideas comes from: using reflective glass to form an exterior light shelf that also shades the window below. That is what my crude sketch below is trying to describe.

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