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Some architects get hired to do a 50 unit apartment complex for 200k that only takes them a few months. The owners of those businesses farm it out to a junior t
by throwitaway222 3y ago
Some architects get hired to do a 50 unit apartment complex for 200k that only takes them a few months. The owners of those businesses farm it out to a junior to do the entire thing, then look over it quickly.
Said junior usually only does this for a maximum of 10 years and graduates to owning their own business. However 85% of them graduate to running a drafter business which just draws plans.
- freddie_mercury 3y agoThere is not enough industry growth for every junior to own their own business in 10 years.
- whatshisface 3y agoThere is if the average size of said business is between 2 and 1.
- darkwater 3y agoBUT if there is a serious issue in the houses built by following the project you had signed, well, you will go to jail (or pay the fine). I still have to see a software engineer held PERSONALLY accountable, in front of the law, for a PII leak, for example.
- adrianN 3y agoTry working in safety critical software. There liability is the norm.
- darkwater 3y agoYes, but basically every architect work is safety critical. If a construction collapses on itself, it will kill you.
- sojournerc 3y agoArchitects design, a structural engineer makes sure it stands up
- darkwater 3y agoI think it depends on the type of work (and also legislation). For example I had architects calculating which kind/size of iron girder/joist (IDK the exact English word for it) put to replace a supporting wall. If they calculate that badly, the roof comes down at some point, and I die.
- whiterknight 3y agoI am ignorant about this industry. But is it really the architect who is held liable? Not the civil engineer who signs off on the analysis?