Have you experienced any challenges or misunderstanding when working with a contractor for a building project? Please briefly describe the challenges.
If you are willing to share, which project have you worked on in your firm that has experienced many challenges and problems due to issues between architects and contractors?
What do you hope to resolve between you as the architect and the contractor when experiencing some issues?
There are near daily problems on all jobs. There is an intrinsic, insurmountable conflict of interest between parties. Contractors win jobs by over-promising control of budget. Architects over-promise on quality of delivered project. And this struggle can be described as soft science. If you could pinpoint when a specific assembly or system will turn to shit, then you could do some quick maths and argue in terms of life cycle costs. But it will always be subjective speculation.
Best is to work on projects where no one gives a shit (especially the Owner). This is why working on public projects is the best. The MAGA wall may not turn out to be cheap or of even passable quality, but contractors and architects can lock hands in comradery coast to coast and sing Kumbaya all the way to the bank.
I understand your concern. I am just gaining inputs from different experiences just to witness the similarities and differences people can get. I did make a questionnaire regarding this topic, but in case the questionnaire could not get sufficient responses I thought using a forum page might be helpful.
Mar 4, 19 9:06 pm ·
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curtkram
i definitely think you should include rusty's comments about not giving shit making things easier
Issue between architects and contractors.
Have you experienced any challenges or misunderstanding when working with a contractor for a building project? Please briefly describe the challenges.
If you are willing to share, which project have you worked on in your firm that has experienced many challenges and problems due to issues between architects and contractors?
What do you hope to resolve between you as the architect and the contractor when experiencing some issues?
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There are near daily problems on all jobs. There is an intrinsic, insurmountable conflict of interest between parties. Contractors win jobs by over-promising control of budget. Architects over-promise on quality of delivered project. And this struggle can be described as soft science. If you could pinpoint when a specific assembly or system will turn to shit, then you could do some quick maths and argue in terms of life cycle costs. But it will always be subjective speculation.
Best is to work on projects where no one gives a shit (especially the Owner). This is why working on public projects is the best. The MAGA wall may not turn out to be cheap or of even passable quality, but contractors and architects can lock hands in comradery coast to coast and sing Kumbaya all the way to the bank.
when is your homework due?
the end of this week. thanks for asking
Cool, but this is not how you do research.
I understand your concern. I am just gaining inputs from different experiences just to witness the similarities and differences people can get. I did make a questionnaire regarding this topic, but in case the questionnaire could not get sufficient responses I thought using a forum page might be helpful.
i definitely think you should include rusty's comments about not giving shit making things easier
Nope.
The challenge is simply to get built what is drawn and to draw what is to get built, no need to overcomplicate things.
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