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What Happened To MyCorbu

6/25/2021

MyCorbu

Building Acoustics For Architects

6/23/2021

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...

The 1 Reason To Plan Before You Design

5/4/2021

Planning

I got the opportunity to design some school buildings right out of college. They were fairly large projects taking six months to a year for the design phases. There was lots of time to recover from missteps. After a couple of these I got an admin building for a small school district. By comparison this was a three-bedroom house in scale. Before I had a handle on what the project would entail, I started focusing on the entrance and how I wanted that to work. After a day or two, the question came. "What the hell are you doing?" I explained about the importance (to me) of the entrance. "Do you even know if this is going to be 1-story or two? Does it fit the site?"

Architectural Bookkeeping App Evaluation

5/2/2021

Architectural Bookkeeping Evaluation

Most small firm architects are unhappy with their bookkeeping application. This is an evaluation of what is available.

The Masonry Advantage

2/21/2021

Masonry

Masonry is unique among building materials.

What's The Cheapest Way

2/15/2021

Nature encourages economy and so does human nature.

What Does An Architect's Fee Include?

2/7/2021

Fees

The short answer is Basic Services.

Daily Timekeeping

1/31/2021

Timesheet

If you don’t document your time daily, is it timekeeping or something else?

Rule Of Thumb for Expansion - Up? Out?

1/23/2021

Expansion

Look At What Others Do For A Clue.

Conference Room Layout Rule Of Thumb

1/9/2021

Conference Room

SIZING A Conference Room

Planning As A Service

1/2/2021

Planning As A Service

You should get paid for the planning work you do.

Seasons Greetings 2020

12/16/2020

The Blueprint-Reading-Challenged

12/12/2020

'Reading blueprints' is not an innate talent.

How To Design - Schematic Design

12/6/2020

Schematic Design

The benefits of this Seven Step Process of Schematic Design

Why You Should Understand The Personality of Software

11/28/2020

Personality

Image Credit: thebullbustercafe

Getting more than intended from software.

Cut And Fill Made Easy

11/22/2020

Cut and Fill

This can make engineers crazy.

Design Fees

11/15/2020

Design Fees

Estimating design fees is part science and part art … OK …
it’s math and guessing.

Publishing to Build Your Niche

11/14/2020

Flowchart

The purposeful way to develop a niche from nothing is to publish.

The TOC

11/7/2020

Table Of Contents

Uses For The Technical Specifications Table Of Contents

Using And Setting Up Trello

11/2/2020

Trello-PM

This is one of the chapters in my e-book, Trello-PM. I want to give you a glimpse at what it is like to get set up with Trello™. See what you think...

Financial Management for Architects - Fundamentals 1

10/25/2020

Financial Management for Architects

Fundamentals - How an Architectural Firm Works

TWINDOW STORY

10/24/2020

Twindow Story

A Story About Natatorium Windows

Planning A Basement - Rule Of Thumb

10/18/2020

Basement

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

Marketing - Simple, Cheap And Easy

10/9/2020

Marketing Planner

FeeCalqs 2

10/3/2020

FeeCalqs

Determine an appropriate architectural fee in minutes
instead of hours (days?).

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