Architect Blog

The new Owner of a two story free-standing 8,665 sq. ft. office building in Lafayette, Colorado hired us to provide Architect services for her speech therapy and educational services business, working as a Tenant Improvement Architect. Her intent is to provide educational therapy services on the first floor for kids and the second floor would be offices. There’s therefore two Occupancy Group Classifications that must be considered (E and B respectively), before we design, pro

An old two story, brick building of 8,000 sq. ft. became occupied by a new Owner whom purchased the building for investment and his business in Arvada, Colorado. The previous owner operated an automobile business in this building and now the occupancy changed to accommodate a different use as a developer company. We were hired to provide design and construction Consulting work, mainly for coordinating the Owner’s direct-cost contracting trades, providing our formidable pack

For a typical two story custom home project, approximately 90% of the project costs are associated with construction costs. The remaining 10% is associated with architecture and engineering fees. So when it comes to evaluating a project’s costs, this is the area to focus on, regarding the many line items compromising this cumulative end game price. There are about (26) subcontractor Trades and about (10) material supplier Trades, that add up to (36) project line item ‘costs'.