- Architects are trained to take your brief and can see the big picture.
- Architects look beyond your immediate requirements to design flexible buildings that will adapt with the changing needs of your business.
- Architects solve problems creatively
- When they are involved at the earliest planning stage, they gain more opportunities to understand your business, develop creative solutions, and propose ways to reduce costs.
- Architects can save you money by maximising your investment.
- A well-designed building can reduce your bills now and increase its long-term value.
- Architects can manage your project from site selection to completion.
- In many building projects the role of the architect includes co-ordinating a team of specialist consultants such as landscape architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, interior designers, builders and subcontractors.
- Architects can save you time.
- By managing and co-ordinating key project elements they allow you to focus on your organisation’s activities.
- Architects can help your business.
- They create total environments, interior and exterior, which are pleasing and functional for the people who work and do business within them.
Why A Chartered Practice ?
To become a Chartered Practice, Architectural Practices need to comply with strict criteria in an accreditation scheme that gives you, the client, a mark of quality. So by choosing a RIBA Chartered Practice you can expect a certain level of excellence in design and service.
The scheme has been developed by RIBA following client and government feedback. It ensures that all accredited members work to a common set of standards and have in place:
- Appropriate Professional Indemnity insurance
- A Quality Management System
- A Health and Safety policy
- Employment policy addressing the principles of the RIBA policy statement on employment
- Continuing Professional Development for all staff.
- The practice should be working towards the development of a written environmental management policy and its application to the business operation of the practice by 1 July 2010