
This article is written by a Pacific Palisades Architect, who designed and built a new custom home for himself and his wife in The Palisades in 2000 and resided there for many years.
After being in the design and construction industry for over (35) years, I want to provide the opportunity for suggested guidelines for property owners to consider, preface to rebuilding their new home. Obviously each homeowner’s scope of work, budget, site conditions, family needs, etc. will be different, but there are formidable guidelines to be considered preface to hiring a general contractor.
Formulating these guidelines necessitates a significant amount of time/effort, professional experience and quantitative/qualitative parameters to ‘assemble’, so that comparative analysis of potential services can be evaluated.
Typically and especially in light of these current unfortunate post-fire circumstances for the displaced homeowner, professional assistance from a Consulting Architect would be one source of services alleviating greatly the homeowner’s valuable time from this laborious process. After the decision has been made to rebuild, forming a preliminary ’team’ for the new home design and construction project even before the actual architecture firm is hired, can provide significant benefits.
These include the reduction of the overall project timeline; allow a patient collaboration of design and construction professionals ‘brainstorming’ a best-plan-of-action to achieve with the property owner; and adjust the preliminary scope of work to the available budget, before architectural plans have even been started.
Our website provides an Inquiry form with some basic information to provide, regarding your project and type of services requested. Upon receipt, we’ll get back with you in a very timely manner for further discussion of your scope of work. Hopefully there will be a fit for both of us and a plan on how to proceed can be developed.
Whether we work together or not, the best to you always for a successful new custom home project in the wonderful community of Pacific Palisades!
Barry R. Shaw AIA, GC
BSA Inc. Design & Construction
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