3. • Practice started April 2011; in my 3rd trading year
• Newly located in Hirwaun, off A465
• Sole practitioner: limited company
• Entirely computer-based drawing production (CAD)
• 37 years chartered architect
• 21 years in private practice
• 10 years in Housing Association/Social Housing
• 4 years international development/emergency housing
BASIC PRACTICE DATA
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
4. Key features of service
• free initial ‘home’ consultation (normally 60-90 minutes)
• lump-sum fees & no VAT
• emphasis on building the ‘Brief’ to meet clients needs
• multiple sketch schemes until it is ‘right’ for the client
• close attention, rapid response, excellent communications
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
5. Service areas
• Design
• Planning
• Construction Project Management
• Team assembly (construction or design)
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
6. Design
• new houses
• extensions/loft conversions
• internal re-modelling
• feasibility studies
• offices/commercial
• community buildings
• healthcare/nursing homes
• church re-ordering
• interior design
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
7. Planning advice
• outline and detailed planning applications
• local plan review: objections submissions
• planning appeals
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
8. Construction Project Management
• tendering work and contractor selection
• information review & re-working
• site inspections and quality control
• component selection
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
9. Team Assembly
• trades
• specialists
• professional team
• fees and appointment contracts
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
10. Design project 1: 2-storey farmhouse extension
• BNI introduction
• old farmhouse, split off, remote location
• family, 2 children
• commanding views opposite direction to sun
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
18. Design project 2: new house, Seven Sisters
• site within current settlement limit
• steep, awkward site with mixed views
• client hates ‘modern’!
• 3-bed detached house with huge spaces required
• £0.5m budget
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
25. Project 3: penthouse flat. LB Wandsworth
• surrounded by Conservation Area in Putney
• client’s ideas and sketches rejected by planners
• what can be achieved?
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’
33. How can you
help me?
• medium to larger builders: they advise clients on consultants
• land owners/developers: to unlock land & get max potential
• nursing homes: many are having to expand or reconfigure
Stephen Waldron Architects: ‘serviced design’