^Praxis - Fragen aus London
An Deutsche Architekten ab ~35:
Wer hat Lust Fragen zur eigenen Erfahrung und Praxis in Deutschland zu beantworten?
Ich schreibe einen Essay fuer meine Aufnahme in die ARB Kammer in England. Es geht um Internationale Architektur Praxis im Vergleich zu der in UK und ich habe einen Katalog mit Fragen zu Deutscher Praxis zusammengestellt:
(Wer lieber ein WORD dokument haben moechte schreibt mir am besten ein email)
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Hier der Katalog - Antworten auf Deutsch oder English
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The University of Greenwich
Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Practice (with ARB / RIBA Part 3 recognition) P11224
ARCT1031 THE ARCHITECT & SOCIETY revisits THE (G)LOBAL ARCHITECT
List of Questions for Architects based in Germany
1. Company Profile
1.1. Age of your company:
1.2. Type of company registration:
1.3. Size of company:
1.4. Percentage of architectural compared to non-architectural staff:
1.5. Your position:
1.6. Your qualification/registration:
1.7. Do you have a unique selling point or specialisation?
2. Professional Bodies
2.1. Is your practice a member of the VFA ? (Verein Freischaffender Architekten Deutschlands E.V.-there is no equivalent in the UK)
2.2. Is your practice a member of the BDA? (Bund Deutscher Architekten-like RIBA in the UK)
2.3. Is your practice registered with a Chamber or Architects? (Architektenkammer-like ARB in the UK)
3. Clients
3.1. Who are your main clients?
3.2. Do you have many returning clients? What kind of projects do they return with?
3.3. How do you get new clients?
3.4. Do your clients think of you as the Masterbuilder (Baumeister) or more of a creative designer?
3.5. What are the project sizes and and contract values (lowest, average, highest)?
3.6. Where do you see advantages and disadvantages when working for Developers?
3.7. Do you sometimes work for General Contractors? Maybe give a percentage also.
3.8. Do you need to qualify to work for large contractors? (in the UK one may become a part of a General Contractor’s ‘Framework’)
3.9. Regarding the value you add to your clients projects, which aspects of your 'Leistungsbilder' do you tend to agree on most with your clients, which ones the least? This may also be understood in the wider context of the project.
3.10. When clients seek compensation from architects how is this usually dealt with? Court, tribunal or similar?
4. Market
4.1. Is your practice working internationally?
4.2. If yes, in which ways has the workload developed during the last 10 years in the European Union?
4.3. Which qualities of your practice do you try to portrait to your clients? How has this changed in the development of the European Union?
4.4. What is the percentage of registered architects to non-registered Dipl. Ingenieurs?
4.5. How do you think is such a role affected by an increasingly complex construction industry sharing the design and construction management with increasingly more knowledgeable construction companies and developers with more specific and more efficient strategies?
4.6. How do you think has the role of the architect evolved over the past 50 years?
4.7. How do you think has the role of the architect evolved over the past 20 years?
4.8. How do you think has the role of the architect evolved over the past 10 years?
4.9. In which ways do you think is the German architect challenged by the open European Market and how does he adapt to remain competitive?
5. Practice
5.1. Do you use a Bautagebuch and what do you use it for (book for daily record keeping)?
5.2. Who is your Bautagebuch made available to?
5.3. Do you use BIM software? Are there or will there be any requirements in Germany to use such a program?
5.4. Are there significant differences between the federal states (Bundeslaender) that affect the practice of an architect?
5.5. What are the most common circumstances for an architect to set up a practice?
5.6. How does your practice operate with Professional Indemnity cover (PI insurance)? And how many years post completion of a project do you need to carry this insurance?
5.7. Do you have any project based insurance cover in Germany?
6. Projects in general
6.1. Do your projects usually cover all work stages – i.e. Design (Entwurf) + Planning (Planung ) + Construction (Bauleitung)?
6.2. Are you sometimes only appointed for a portion of a project? For example any of the general phases listed above?
6.3. Do you sometimes help clients to develop the idea of a project? For example with commercial clients, do you get involved in developing economic strategies to improve their business model?
6.4. Does your practice get involved in:
6.4.1. town planning?
6.4.2. Landscape/garden projects?
6.4.3. Temporary or mobile construction projects, exhibitions, etc.?
6.5. Do you provide services to your clients that are not picked up within the HAOI? If yes, how to you produce estimates for such work?
6.6. Do you employ sub-consultants and how does this affect your liability?
6.7. Which procurement methods does your office get involved with and which types of projects are these applied to?
6.8. Who manages health and safety on site?
6.9. Do you produce Maintenance & Operation Manuals and/or Home Owner User Manuals?
6.10. Do you provide services to clients after completing their project? Do you get involved in maintenance or repair works?
6.11. Has your company developed its own building projects? If yes what are these projects and how was their success measured?
7. A specific project
7.1. Please give an example of a specific project you have recently completed:
7.2. Your scope of works/services:
7.3. Your appointment:
7.4. Design Team Structure –who is employed by whom?
7.5. Procurement method:
7.6. Who coordinates the consultants and construction teams and what is the client responsible for?
7.7. How long was the tender period?
7.8. Did the tender come with conditions?
7.9. Construction contract?
7.10. Which parties managed quality throughout and what are your instruments to insure quality on site?
7.11. What were your tasks during the construction phase?
7.12. What were your tasks before and after completion?
8. Fees/ Cost
8.1. What are the most profitable projects and which ones tend to lose money?
8.2. What are the major cost factors for your practice (please give percentages for wages, IT, rent, insurance, marketing etc.)
8.3. In the early phases of a project, feasibility (Grundlagenermittlung/Vorplanung), do you tend to charge hourly rates, lump sums or is this speculative and picked up through HOAI following appointment?
8.4. Do you think the building costs usually reflect the value of design achievements?
8.5. Does it encourage good architecture?
8.6. Does it award sustainable designs?
8.7. Does it boost innovation?
8.8. Would you in some cases prefer if there was no regulated fee calculus?
8.9. Do you feel the HOAI needs to be revised? If yes, then what are your primary concerns?
8.10. Are some clients willing to accept fee proposals that are set higher than HOAI guidelines? If yes, during which phases and for which values that your service imparts are such increases likely to be accepted for?
8.11. Have you come across projects where are Bonus was awarded? What type of project was this and what was the Bonus for? Do you tend to agree such Bonus in your appointments?
8.12. Do you think there are disadvantages in having regulated fee scales?
8.13. Do you think there should be a regulated fee scales for projects above 5m?
8.14. How do you charge/invoice for your work usually?
8.15. Do you use time sheets to monitor costs? If not, then how else is cost measured?
8.16. Are you aware of your companies’ business plan? if yes is it a 2, 5 or 10 year plan?
8.17. In which ways does your company support staff progression/professional development?