ArchitectAnon

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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
The structural frame is easy. Stick frame, CLT, SIPs already exist and are better than this basically everything except a blockwork structure already takes less than a week. Insulation, airtightness and services integration is hard. Servic
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Good point, in a hot climate with air conditioning, everything works in reverse in summer. My perspective is Northern Europe; consult a local expert.
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Yes of course, but I was thinking more in terms of DIYers jamming a lot of non-breathable eps into old houses. Probably better to say consult someone who knows what they’re talking about before you internally insulate your old house.
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
One note of caution, he describes removing the lath and plaster and inserting eps insulation. It didn’t mention if he did this, he might have done, but it’s important to have a continuous taped vapour barrier on the warm side of the insulat
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
I think it takes a while for the juices to equalise and reach equilibrium before it’s running at max efficiency. You don’t want a duty cycle of say 15mins. You want say 1.5hrs. Something like that. (Numbers very hand wavy this is not my fie
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Plastic pipes have a really bad reputation for joint failures in the construction industry in the UK. I’ve heard of whole commercial buildings having plastic pipes fail all over the place during commissioning resulting in the whole lot gett
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
More like 7%. But that’s for a completely custom design from scratch not just reprocessing an off the shelf design.
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Maybe I am because I should switch careers, I’m visually literate; pretty sure I could do graphics as good as that. I’m also computer literate I’ve used bootstrap, I know how it works. I also code python well enough to understand how create
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Also if I agreed to a fee of £7k and tried to charge a client £46k without agreeing a new scope of work with a new signed appointment contract I would probably be struck off and fined £20k by my professional regulator.
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
$46k for those changes holy fucking shit. I’ve charged less than this to design a whole 200m² house. I built a detailed 3d model, secured all the permissions and technical approvals, produced 30 A1 drawings, written a 200 page spec, coordin
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Construction materials is something like 30%
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Steam from showers sets off some types of smoke detectors as well. I know of a student halls of residence that had them. In the uk that type of building is classified as high risk so the alarm system is directly connected to the fire brigad
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Also Kansai airport [0] had to cope with this issue, complicated by the fact that it's built on reclaimed land and the whole thing is (or was) on software controlled hydraulic jacks which control differential settlement. [0] http:&#x2
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by ArchitectAnon 4y ago
Back in the mid 2000's I tried to point out to the people writing the UK BIM standards why it was a bad idea to have all buildings drawn relative to the OS grid datum which is somewhere southwest of the Scilly Isles for exactly this re
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
Here’s a what I do in my industry: Architecture. I refuse invitation to tender for services where there are more than 3 bidders. I phone the person managing the tender and ask if they have a preferred Architect already and I say that I don’
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
My theory is it’s common law contracting systems combined with government and industry wanting to push time and cost risk down the chain of subcontractors as far as possible. This leads to a situation where market forces are aligned to gene
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
From memory 40% of people in the UK construction industry admit to offering or receiving a bribe. [0] Western countries are not immune to this. I’m aware of situations where large cash bribes were paid or holidays were given by subcontracto
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
If you think plumbers don’t have undefined requirements and random deadlines out of their control then you don’t know enough about the industry. Most plumbers are juggling about 20 different projects plus call-outs and with the chaos in the
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
I’m not an engineer but I am an architect and I have worked closely with engineers on skyscrapers. Drilling all the way down to the bedrock is risky. When you drill a deep pile you need to use bentonite slurry to stop the pile collapsing in
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
Big skyscrapers in London use a similar friction pile technique. E.g The Cheesegrater sits on friction piles which I believe are ø2.5m x 25m long.
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
The ‘Wedding Cake’ style of architecture requires a lot of ‘fondant icing’ stuck to the outside which is made from expensive and highly labour intensive materials, hand carved stone typically. To take my cake metaphor to far, you can put to
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by ArchitectAnon 5y ago
I've worked on some mega projects as well, and the key to being on time and on budget is to manage the PR so that no-one knows when it's supposed to be completed and how much it's going to cost. The only difference between Cr
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by ArchitectAnon 6y ago
Germany has this. They’re not a poor country.
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by ArchitectAnon 6y ago
Architecture is pretty similar. Some firms are OK, I know friends who have worked for some of the big name Starchitects and they are pretty abusive, the wonkier the geometry the more abusive. The main difference being you are being paid £25
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by ArchitectAnon 6y ago
Your example is not that far off, I know of a building where the subcontractor’s subcontractor substituted a less elastic steel and it caused bolts to fail with the potential to drop a few 100m out of the sky and land on the public below. I