“OAC” – Owner, Architect and Contractor meeting. I didn’t know that term in school, but it is a acronym thrown around weekly now. There are various types of meetings to get a project concept-ed, off the ground and running – or building – in our line of work. Once a contractor is brought on board, whether …
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DESIGN SHADOW: CAULKING – A TIDLIC
Now that we are about a month out from “turn over” – the date that the contractor turns the building over to the Owner I am spending at least one day a week if not two, walking the project and inspecting progress of materials and finishes going in. Today I met with one of the …
DESIGN SHADOW: A DESIGNER’S ROLE ON THE TOTEM POLE
I am working on a project where the firm I work for is the local architect and we are partnered with a larger national firm from another state. The national firm leads out on the architecture and interior design and we support where we can and then are responsible for getting ready all the documents …
DESIGN SHADOW ON PROBLEM SOLVING AND ANTIQUE LAMPS
This has been an interesting couple of weeks. I would love to say “today I did …” and name a specific item. Right now I am all over the board on multiple projects doing site inspections, creating/maintaining budgets, preparing purchase orders for and buying furniture and following up on vendors that are providing products for our …
DESIGN SHADOW ON STRESS
I am sitting in a plane headed to Chicago, IL. Neocon or bust. This flight time has come as a needed break from a busy, non stop week… A week that I could feel the pressure and stress weighing pushing me down. The week started with some bad news concerning the representative for my client, …
INTERIOR DESIGNER’S RESOLUTION TO STONE PARTITIONS
I spent a potion of the day trying to think through and resolve a problem that hasn’t been resolved with our restroom partitions as written about in a previous entry. As a recap, the sub contractor – stone and tile supplier – didn’t bid out stone partitions per our drawings. When they submitted their shop drawings …
HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA – FURNITURE AND PRODUCT MARKET
Today I awoke in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s another day at the High Point Furniture Market for me. This is my second full day here and even though I have walked over 9,000 steps each day (plus my 4 mile run today) I am feeling good and have one more day in me. I am …
PURPLE FABRIC UPDATE – WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
Remember when I talked about a fabric that was a color that I didn’t like so much? Well that fabric has shown its ugly head. I spent this week working on a new problem. I usually write about items that are done on a day to day basis, but this one has taken lots of …
RESTROOM SPACE PLANNING – ADA
I worked this afternoon with an intern architect on a submittal that came in from our stone sub-contractor. The submittal was for stone partitions for some restrooms in a commercial building. The stone for these partitions is specified as 1 & 1/4″ thick slabs of a marble called “Perlatina.” The submittal was to verify their layout for …
ARCHITECTURAL/INTERIOR DESIGN PUNCH LIST: A TIDLIC
Today I was out of state on location for a project where we are building student housing for a University. We spent the day inspecting and “punch listing” the site. This usually means a lot of blue tape all over the building…much to the GC’s displeasure. I don’t have any recollection of ever discussing this side …
