Get the latest information on issues affecting your profession. This annual update of the Handbook offers up-to-the-minute tools and practical guidance that you can put to work in your practice today. Included in this year's Practice Update is an overview of new AIA documents and sample contracts that you can view on a CD-ROM (included). Seven new practice profiles demonstrate how firms of all sizes can increase their business and improve their profits by adding new practice methods and services--such as Design-Led Design-Build--to their portfolios. The expanded practice topics section features seven new topics, including proven techniques for improving client communications and four new services--such as building security assessment--that architects can provide. So keep ahead of the curve and order your update right away.
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REDEFINING THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
CLIENT • BUSINESS • DELIVERY • SERVICES
This first volume in an annual series updating The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, Thirteenth Edition brings architects and others working in the architectural community up to date on the current state of the field–from the latest AIA contract documents and issues affecting day-to-day operations to emerging business trends. In three sections, this easy-to-use tool presents accessible, field-tested knowledge on running a successful business:
- Practice reports–Seven practice case studies reveal how firms of all sizes are attracting more business and increasing profits by offering such new services as Building Security Assessment as well as design-led and design-build services. Discover how traditional firms take on new roles and how implementing these practices gets them ahead.
- Practice topics–By popular demand, the AIA has provided eight new Handbook topics.
• Improve your firm’s management by improving your communication skills, human resources, and project closeouts and documentation.
• Expand your business by offering four profitable new services, including BuildingMeasurement, Security Planning, and Value Analysis. - AIA contract documents–Update your files with the accompanying CD-ROM containing all new, revised, and existing AIA contract documents, complete with descriptions of how to use them.
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Firms that form long-term strategic alliances find a powerfully synergistic means of creating new business. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic services agreement, final change order, detailed cost estimating, agreement between architect, nonconforming work, construction management services, agreement between owner, rentable area, project closeout, guaranteed maximum price, substantial completion, detailed estimating, bust times, interiors family, project log, security evaluation, quantity survey, bid date, architecture firms, detailed cost estimates, supplementary conditions, stipulated sum, construction manager, foreign projects, usable area Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Firms that form long-term strategic alliances find a powerfully synergistic means of creating new business. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic services agreement, final change order, detailed cost estimating, agreement between architect, nonconforming work, construction management services, agreement between owner, rentable area, project closeout, guaranteed maximum price, substantial completion, detailed estimating, bust times, interiors family, project log, security evaluation, quantity survey, bid date, architecture firms, detailed cost estimates, supplementary conditions, stipulated sum, construction manager, foreign projects, usable area Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice, Insight Alliance, Practice Topics, Freelon Group, Anderson Anderson, Architectural Record, Charles Nelson, Jeff Wade, North Carolina, San Francisco, Design-Build Led, Documents Committee, Firm Survey, Perkins Eastman, Client May Need These Services, Consent of Surety, Dennis King, Peter Anderson, Representative Process Tasks, Uniform Commercial Code, Architect's Essentials of Presentation Skills, Booz Allen Hamilton, Energy Information Administration, North Raleigh New!
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