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Originally Posted by ArtyLady
I take offence at your first sentence  my grandfather, father and uncle were architects, and my sister is an Architectural Technician. If you don't understand their charges then you need to look into what it takes to qualify, run a business, pay staff etc. |
I said I was making a generalisation with the last sentence!
It's not that I don't understand the charges, it's more to do with you commission with a near water tight contract for X amount of money and they spend considerably more and then try to claw it back despite the brief not changing in the slightest, and with no notification from them midway through that the fee needs to increase. Then if you don't pay, you then have an unhappy architect, and an unhappy contributor to a project isn't good for anyone involved! It's happened more than once on projects I've been involved with just within the past few years. I know you can say that this happens throughout the industry, but on these occasions there was no obvious cause for the additional work other than the architects wanted the schemes to look better - which is strange considering once the engineers have had their go it ends up looking completely different!
I've actually got a lot more respect and admiration for Architectural Technologists as they actually have an idea of what can and cannot be built.
For what it's worth, Planners are generally good at leading/co-ordinating projects. (No I am not a planner!
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