Tell us hear the primary type of architecture your firm focuses on. Is the focus primary commercial or residential? Does the firm focus on a particular market? And what is the primary locale your firm focus its work.
For those that are students, tell us where your are going to school and maybe where you want to end up.
My firm focuses on commercial and will take on anything reasonable but schools. The primary locale is Maine and surrounding New England.
For those that are students, tell us where your are going to school and maybe where you want to end up.
My firm focuses on commercial and will take on anything reasonable but schools. The primary locale is Maine and surrounding New England.
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Tue, November 30, 2004 - 6:20 PMI’m a civil engineering student living in Portland OR.
I would like to work with alternative building materials, which immediately makes me sound like a hippy. When all I really want to do is make housing affordable without fucking up the planet. I think everyone can agree that it needs to be done sooner or later. So why not now? There are a lot of people out there doing this stuff but they have to live in places without building codes. I’d like to do real test on the alternative building materials, determine what the real costs and benefits are and then make them available to everyone.
I’d really like to work with efficient design too. It seems like most houses are a series of boxes randomly put together with no consideration on the plumbing, electrical, waste and HEATING, (these are things that get added later). -
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Wed, December 1, 2004 - 3:44 PMI'm an architectural designer here in Paris. I'm working on a museum right now at an international japanese firm, but I used to build commercial architecture (garden centers) before for a very french firm... I used to have more responsibilities at the last firm because we were about three people all together, but now I like what I do more. Our work is just more beautiful than just building boxes.
I'm also getting my degree at the same time. I hope to become an architect in may or july. I need to present a final project proving that I can do architecture. It takes six years here to become an architect, but because of the European Union, things are changing, and there are rumors that it will take about eight to ten years... a little like the States.
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Tue, July 26, 2005 - 4:40 AMIs Value Engineering just fun? I have a project that is $4 million over and we are probably only 50% down with CDs. The Exterior elevations have some fat but we are locked in with what we can do by the city planning department. We have a interior designer that is doesn’t understand HVAC duct runs. We have an Owner that can not pull the trigger on some items to let us change the documents until the eleventh hour. I can say at lease this much for the Owner he does not want to cheapen the look or feel of the building.
A mechanical engineer that we use said this, “You never save money, you just move it around.”
I done complaining for this week.
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