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Dec 5, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Faced with constant challenges when it comes to setting fees, how architecture practices demonstrate value is an important consideration. With upward pressure from payroll, insurance, premises and IT, costs are going up for architects. In addition, the arrival of the new building safety regime – albeit welcome - has created its own costs in terms of additional resourcing and competence required to perform the Principal Designer role.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Learn more about new initiatives and frameworks that help to boost social value and purpose. With the Procurement Act 2023 coming into force in just a few months’ time (24 February 2025) there will be a new focus on delivering social value through construction projects.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Running a business – especially a smaller business – can be extremely difficult. When it comes to architecture, small and micro practices do not have the luxury of large, separate finance departments to sort out payrolls, keep an eye on overheads, rent and other bills, and plan and forecast.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Learn more about the balance between openness and protection when it comes to BIM assets and intellectual property in a new era of sharing Client contracts and BIM execution plans may give nods to the safeguarding of intellectual property (IP), but while industry working groups are trying to catch up with the fast-moving realities of collaborative environments, architects are sometimes left to ponder how to address the sensitive balance of sharing models and model data while ensuring they...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Neal Morris
The UK construction industry employs almost one in ten of the UK’s workforce, making the market a vital part of the country’s economy. Despite a fall in the volume of construction work in recent years, the market is expected to grow once against in 2025. This expectation is based on three main factors including the stage of the economic – in particular the interest rate – cycle, the change in government , and the continuing advances in innovation and technology.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Learn more about a type of architecture that saw increased usage at the London Olympics in 2012 and now contributes to a more circular approach to large eventsThe Paris Olympics 2024 aimed – and has now claimed - to be the most sustainable games ever, with an emphasis on reuse, redistribution and the use of clean energy. Once upon a time, a new Olympic Games precipitated huge amounts of building work around a host city, which spawned shiny, new, centrepiece stadia and venues.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Learn more about this universally accepted safety net and how to calculate how much working capital is neededThe term working capital may sound like an irrelevant high-finance concept to a small practice just looking to pay its bills at the end of the month, but it’s universally accepted that a working capital safety net is essential for a business’s financial health and stability. With all this being said, how much working capital is recommended for an architecture practice to have in reserve?
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Artificial intelligence and other digital tech might be adding to the architect’s toolkit, but one practice argues that the hands-on approach still has a place. Go to any architecture school's end-of-year show and students’ ideas and concepts will often be exhibited via physical models. Physical model making has always played a huge part in architecture – from initial visualisation and early design stages to presenting to clients. However, the landscape has changed in recent years.
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May 9, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Different age groups have always mixed in the workplace, providing a rich, diverse culture. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development says that staff members of different ages bring different skills, experiences, and perspectives to the table, often helping to increase knowledge sharing and creative problem-solving.
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May 2, 2024 | 
ribaj.com | Neal Morris
Learn more about the difference between statutory and contractual rights, and one easy fix to help keep disputes out of the courtsAdjudication is often thought of as a great way to keep disputes out of the courts and provide a swift and relatively inexpensive route to resolution that is far less likely to see contractors downing tools and bringing projects to a halt.
