Architectural Office Standards and Practices: A Practical User's Guide ANNOTATION
Architects and designers in professional practice will use this concise handbook to fully systematize operations and maximize efficiency in their offices. Packed with ready-to-use forms that can be easily customized for business letters, memoranda, and project data, it provides every type of standard letter and checklist needed to run a successful design firm.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
This definitive resource developed under the auspices of the Denver,Colorado,Chapter of the American Institute of Architects,offers step-by-step guidance on setting up standard records,drawing data,and project data for the professional architectural design office. Here,the architect can learn,or refresh,such skills as proper drawing coordination,starting for projects,performing building code reviews,and maintaining construction contract documents. The book is chock full of every sort of standard letter,form,and checklist ever likely to be needed in the course of running a successful design firm.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
In order to systematize operations and maximize efficiency in the architectural office, this practical guide provides explanations, with ready-to-use forms and checklists, for such as functions as standardizing common drawing procedures; coordinating complex drawing elements; organizing tasks and responsibilities for critical phases of a project; streamlining decision-making; performing quality assurance and coordination reviews; simplifying routine administrative procedures; handling applications for payment; reducing errors and oversights in working drawings; and managing the commonplace paperwork characteristic of construction projects. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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