Architects & Building Construction
Trained and professionally licensed architects design and plan buildings and supervise the building construction. An architect must know all the required building codes and standards, allowing him to utilize various construction methods available to construct a client’s building. Architects ensure that projects remain within actual costs and construction schedule limits.
Advanced education combined with an internship with specialized training to gain practical experience are prerequisites before an architect can earn a license to practice architecture. The development of the profession as a whole, through the formal study of architecture at academic institutions, ensures that public safety is safeguarded by an architect’s responsible decisions.
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When conducting architecture as a business; technical knowledge, management, and an understanding of business, is as important as design. At the start of a project, a client offers an architect a commission, usually requiring the preparation of feasibility reports, the design of a building or several buildings, and the spaces in and around them.
The architect must coordinate the work during the construction phase. The architect must understand the client’s requirements when designing the building. Structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers and other specialists form part of the design team. The design team is coordinated by the architect throughout the project, from planning to completion.
An architect must work long hours when working towards a deadline. Architects regularly visit job sites as well as clients but are usually office-based professionals. During their careers, architects can elect to become involved in project management, construction management, interior design, property development, facilities management, or other related roles when they have sufficient experience.
Architects are responsible for preparation and coordination of technical documents such as construction drawings and specifications. The work is priced and the building construction is done from the construction drawings and specifications. Development and building permits, requiring compliance with health and safety, building and relevant regulations, is obtained by the architect.
Architects put projects out to tender on behalf of their clients, and advise clients on the award of the project to a builder or general contractor. An architect reviews subcontractor shop drawings and technical submittals and issues site instructions and payment certificates to the contractor. Architects provide construction contract administration, and control the progress of work.
An architectural designer or an architect primarily involved in the design of buildings, requires good creative skills, artistic talent and imagination. Building designers, or architectural technicians, are non-registered designers unable to legally refer to themselves as “architectural” designers. Although most students of architecture are trained as designers, many do not become designers in practice.
