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Architectural Design

2014 - present

Role: LAM Part 2 Graduate Architect

Employer: GDP Architects

RIBA Stage 2: Concept Design

  • Correspondence with collaborating foreign architect

  • Design reviews with client involving high-level management

 

RIBA Stage 3: Spatial Coordination & Stage 4: Technical Design

  • Drawings preparation and submission for Planning Application

  • Drawings preparation and submission to Fire Department

  • Drawings preparation and submission for Building Regulations

  • Design coordinations with consultants and specialists (acoustic, AV, facade, lighting)

  • Tender drawings preparation and submission

  • Tender briefing and evaluation

  • Contract drawings preparation and submission

  • Value engineering report preparation

 

RIBA Stage 5: Construction

  • Material selections review with client (including costing exercise)

  • Responding to contractor's submittals (requests for information, material submissions, work method statements and shop drawings)

  • Preparing contractual letters to contractor (underperforming, non-compliance to contract)

  • Preparing concern letters to consultants and specialist consultants

  • Design Change Request paperwork (e.g. design variations, provisional sum items, client's request)

  • Factory Acceptance Test (lift carriage)

  • Construction quality inspections

  • Stone dry-lay inspection

  • Reviewing Operation and Maintenance Manual by contractor

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