DESIGN PROCESS

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It starts with you. We listen carefully to you as you share your thoughts and visions for your project. This is the critical first step in our collaboration designed to ensure the success of your endeavor.  It is imperative for us to get to know you and learn what your goals and expectations are for the project.  These may range from the smallest of details to more far reaching impacts the project will have.  Once we understand your aspirations, requirements and limitations, we have a much clearer sense of what will be required to successfully design your project and transform your vision into reality.

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Our approach differs from the traditional architectural firm’s practice of design as a linear process in which each member of the design team evaluates a project at a particular sequence in the process and in relative isolation.  We have found that there is tremendous value to involve all the key members of the design team from the very early stages of the project.  The input and evaluations of these professionals at this early stage enables a much smoother and well balanced integration of all the building’s systems which, in turn, results in a more efficiently designed, better built, more comfortable and healthier building with ​significantly lower operational costs and with greater environmental performance.  A major benefit of this integrated design process is that we can develop designs that create value for our clients right from the start rather than trying to engineer value into the project later on which often requires additional time and financial resources.

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BASIC PHASES OF DESIGN PROCESS
 

The basic phases of the design process remain the same, but the relative duration of each phase varies from the traditional method.  There is typically more time spent on the Schematic Design and Design Development Phases and less time spent on the Construction Documentation Phase with the potential for significant reductions in the overall timeline.