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FRESH OFF THE KEYBOARDS - MULTIUSE PROJECT Here is a multi use multi family project with 480 dwelling units, restaurants, retail and structured parking. Archline's scope of work was to take the Architect's Schematic and Concept Design and to develop the Architectural Construction Documents, which included two building types and 251 sheets of drawings.  Permit Set for Multiuse Project                                  Click to see a larger image   The Architect's team included all of the major building construction dicsciplines. The team used Revit, BIM 360 Design, Bluebeam and Dropbox. Weekly online meetings were held with representatives from all disciplines in attendance, typically including about two dozen participants. During the week between these meetings various combinations of team members would meet online separately as needed to coordinate various aspects of the work which might not b...

MANY US ARCHITECT ENTERPRISES - GONE IN FIVE YEARS? Things are  changing fast in the architectural profession and they are going to be changing  even faster during the next five years. Many architecture firms currently have business plans that will not allow them to make it to the other side. You should probably consider changing your  business plan now to assure that you are still here in five years. It is an obvious fact that office buildings are failing. You can stay with them and suffer the consequences, or find another way to work. Some office building owners are closing down or repurposing facilities. Other office building owners are slipping into insolvency and bankruptcy.  Lenders try to pass off failing office buildings as being due to high interest rates, and at some point interest rates may come down, but the problem is probably mostly not related to interest. People are spending a lot of time and money, supporting their places at work in office buildings,...

  A VISIONARY KEYNOTE SPEECH ABOUT PROBABLE DEVELOPMENTS OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FIVE YEARS Peter Ziehan, who is a business consultant, New York Times best-selling author and futurist, last year presented a visionary keynote speech about probable developments over the course of the next five years at a conference sponsored by Kansas City based Burns & McDonnell, a 6.9 billion dollar per year AE firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. It was 90 minutes long, but covered a lot of very sobering events he sees as coming to pass, and I made a summary of his presentation, linked below: Peter Ziehan Keynote Speech Presentation Tagged at the end of this summary are my own visions of what I see happening in the AE industry over the next five years. Some of it in the AE industry is already happening. Economic pressures are and will increasingly compel AE firms like yours, indeed all business enterprises, to make significant changes in order to thrive, indeed just to survive. Distance w...

THE DIGITAL NOMAD GUIDE FOR ARCHITECTS Who are the digital nomads? This document describes who the digital nomads are and how some of them work for the AE industry. Some CEOs of traditional and conventional AE enterprises have dropped out and have joined the ranks of the digital nomads while still serving their same clients. I suspect that this may be the beginning of a trend which could eventually completely transform the AE industry. The term, digital nomads, implies that they move around and some of them certainly probably do. However, many if not most of them remain in one place for extended lengths of time and work for many different enterprises in many different places. So when we refer to digital nomads it is not so much the digital nomads who move. It is the succession of work assignments which do the moving. Digital nomads can mobilize together very quickly with other digital nomads and client enterprises, and they can liquidate just as fast when assignments are complete. Digi...