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 …
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DESIGN SHADOW: INTERNATIONAL WORK IN AFRICA, PART CINQ (FIVE)
Yesterday was a great day even though I had to wear the same clothes for from 8 am on Thursday all the way through 4:30 pm on Friday; which included an 8 hour flight during the night. A consultant of ours, who lives here in Johannesburg (J-burg) was here to pick me up from my …
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 DEUX (TWO)
The client and I woke up today with plans to head to the capital of Ivory Coast – Yamoussoukro. They have some buildings there we wanted to tour and inspect, including the Basilica for the Catholic Church. But we had a change of plans… The client and I were traveling with an interpreter to see …
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: TEST FIT
I received a cold call from a potential client the other day. This company’s executive had been referred to me and our company by a number of individuals. He asked if I could meet with him to explore the expansion of his business into a new commercial space – giving them potentially more square footage …
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 -“OAC”: A TIDLIC
“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 …
