Practice Management Questions?
The principals of an architecture firm have recently noticed large differences in the sizes of construction drawing sets, by up to 40sheets, for several projects of similar scope and size. They have asked the PM to recommend construction drawing methodologies in order to properly size a typical set. What methodologies should the project manager recommend?
#1 ) What is instructional systems?
Secure consultant fee proposals before sumitting a fee to the client.
#2) AIA C401 Architect/Consultant, it says that the consultant will get paid once architect is paid by client. How to getting consultant fees upfront before submitting a fee to the client?
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This is a standard practice that most firms follow and is based on AIA documents. You get the fees from all your consultants, and add you own fees and prepare a proposal to the client. Once the client signs your proposal, you can sign your consultants’ proposal.
Once you get paid for a certain percentage of the fee, you can pay your consultant the same percentage if they have finished their portion of the work to the same percentage. If you do not get paid, your consultants do not get pay. You never use your own money to pay your consultants in advance.
Gang Chen, Author, AIA, LEED AP BD+C (GreenExamEducation.com)
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For your second question, it's saying you should get the consultant's *fee proposals* before sending the complete proposal to the client. This isn't actual money, it's the fee the consultants are requesting. In this question, they had WAY overestimated what the consultants fees would be, and it ended up coming out of their profit. If they had waited until they had the consultant's *fee proposal*, they would've known to list a lower fee for them.
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Since part of your question has already been answered, I'll focus only on your question about instructional systems. These are typically drawings that identify default conditions to set the ground rules for how to interpret the drawings set. Examples of this would be drawings of typical mounting requirements (of fixtures, controls, devices, ADA, etc.) or RCP/lighting layouts - with the benefit being that you only then have to document the conditions that are exceptions to the rule. This will not only help an office standardize their documentation, but also reduce the overall number of drawings in a set.
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