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Thank you for all your support in 2016.
We wish you a magical and creative Christmas, and peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year.
Please note our office will be closed for holidays from December 23rd to December 26th and from December 30th to January 2nd.
Have fun!
Our 10th and last secret tip about how to deal with an Architect is about evaluating performance.
If you have just landed here do not miss our previous tips:
10. Provide Feedback
Good or bad! Your Architect wants to hear from you. Your Architect wants to know if you are happy with his/her services, how can he/she improve or if there is a better way to do things. Feedback is a powerful means of personal development. It may help your Architect to be more productive or to excel in his/her performance.
Hot Tip: Get into the habit of providing regular feedback at the end of each project stage. Make your feedback timely, specific, and frequent. The best feedback is a combination of praise, areas for improvement, and specific suggestions. But a single line of text may just be enough! (Our feedback survey is always accessible, if you don’t have the link for it just ask us.)
We particularly like one of the themes of the upcoming 2016 RIAI conference – RESILIENCE.
Not one day goes by without some type of resilience is needed in our work.
We take a twofold approach to this concept:
Dealing with different types of clients is just one of the challenges that requires architects to be resilient. Below are just some of the types that architects can meet along the way.
Types of Clients
We let you think about the best resilience measures for each particular situation but the diagram below seems to cover the best strategies.
Resilience Strategies © Catherine Twiss Consulting
Isabel Barros Architects - Wexford is driven by a passion for creating high quality contemporary Architecture. Our goal is to make good design available to the general public while maintaining a strong focus on the energy efficiency and sustainability of our designs.
A graduate of Lusíada University in Lisbon, Portugal, Isabel is a Senior Architect with over 30 years experience. She is a registered member of both the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) and the Portuguese Association of Architects. Isabel is also Accredited in Conservation at Grade 3.
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