Since early 2012, I have been writing about the business of architecture, a subject that has since become the primary focus of Panfilo. You can review a chronological listing of all of my business content here, or search the below index on articles related to project delivery.
Project delivery, cost management and construction tendering
- Cost planning 101, 17 December 2013
- The perils of tendering, 11 February 2013
- Slow architecture, 24 September 2012
Rules for exceptional documentation
Grouped under the tag, rules for exceptional documentation
- From CAD to BIM, 23 July 2019
- Follow the rules, and then don’t, 25 January 2019
- Bury an Easter egg, 24 January 2019
- Check, double check, triple check, 23 January 2019
- Dimension backwards, 5 December 2018
- Write what you mean, 4 December 2018
- Draw bigger than necessary, 3 December 2018
- Draw general to specific, annotate specific to general, 30 November 2018
- Draw at the scale to be printed, 29 November 2018
- Specify the what and the how, draw the where and the how much, 28 November 2018
- Draw (or write) everything only once, 27 November 2018
- Rules for exceptional documentation, 26 November 2018
How long does architecture take
Grouped under the tag, the best things in life take time
- Construction, 22 April 2014
- Tendering, 17 April 2014
- Documentation, 16 April 2014
- Design development, 15 April 2014
- Town planning, 14 April 2014
- Sketch design, 11 April 2014
- Research, 10 April 2014
Things that go wrong on site
Grouped under the tag, disaster lessons from site
- A soft deadline, 20 April 2015
- Incomplete works at handover, 13 April 2015
- A rogue trade, 9 February 2015
- A pause in construction, 27 January 2015
- Irregular site meetings, 19 January 2015
- An unsubstantiated provisional sum, 12 January 2015
- Progress payments by stage, 5 January 2015
- Pre-contract confrontation, 28 December 2014
Image:
- Mihaly Slocombe studio, photo by Tatjana Plitt.