TIDLIC. At work we try very hard to be accountable to the hours it takes for a person who is assigned to a project or task. It’s the only responsible thing to do when it comes to keeping employees employed and running a financially sound business. To this end the Project Managers (PMs ) assign …
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DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA, PART SIX
To see the first posting on this series go here Today went by fast. We started early and headed to a stone supplier and fabricator and looked at the range of stone slabs that come out of the Africa, called “African Range.” We have selected one of these for the project. We also have a …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA, PART QUATRE (FOUR)
Today we – the whole team of 7 – minus one, drove to the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. This was the place we started to go when we had the bus incident. It took us about 3 hours… Blah! But it was good to see the country side and we had good conversation and fun. …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA – PART TROIS (three)
This post is a continuous posting of a business trip to Africa. Go here for the first of the series post. Today we started the day by meeting as a group. Last night the rest of our Utah base team arrived – the lead Architect, and 3 of our consultants. With these new arrivals and the local …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA – Part Un (one)
Bonjour! I have recently returned from French speaking Cote D’ivoire (Ivory Coast) Africa. I was there to spend a week working to establish relationships with local manufacturers and suppliers and also to inspect the quality of construction for newly completed construction work. This is all for an up and coming building project in the city …
DESIGN SHADOW: LARGE SCALE MOCK-UP
Clients that will be putting a lot of capital towards a project, want to make sure their money is well spent. They are particularly concerned about getting everything they need and want. This is especially true when an Owner is building a large scale project that has many interest groups – or different users or …
DESIGN SHADOW: INTERIOR ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES
Our team of Architects and Interior Designers recently had the space plan and exterior design for a new project approved by the Owner. Now it’s time to define the interior architecture and designs. We call this establishing the vocabulary of the building. Today I spent time thinking with my pen and fodder (tracing paper). This …
DESIGN SHADOW: WORK ORDERS & INVOICING
“Work orders”, or project scopes of work, have been coming in which is typical for this time of year. We have a client that contracts with us work to be done on many of their existing buildings. This year we are managing work for 15 of these buildings. This work can range from replacing and …
DESIGN SHADOW: PROJECT DOCUMETATION
Since I have spent the last number of weeks on a job site managing and completing the installation of a project, it’s now time to complete the record keeping part of the project…the part that we never talk about in school. Most commercial clients like a type of product specification and material/finish binder – architectural …
DESIGN SHADOW: LOBBY FURNITURE SELECTION
Often I have little small projects that come up. Little projects that pay by the hour and don’t take much coordination on the meeting end of things – but more time on following the design through and getting all the product ordered and to the site. Currently one of these projects is for a small …
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