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  • 1.  What do you wish CMs and GCs had learned in school?

    Posted 09-19-2016 10:40 AM

    What do you wish CMs, GCs, and subcontractors knew about architects, the design process, and the practice of architecture? I have the opportunity to propose a new elective graduate course for the Construction Management program at Central Connecticut State University. Please send me your thoughts and ideas.

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    Linda Reeder FAIA, LEED AP
    Principal
    Linda Reeder Architecture, LLC
    New Haven CT
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  • 2.  RE: What do you wish CMs and GCs had learned in school?

    Posted 09-20-2016 05:34 PM

    I have been invited to panel discussions in the past by contractors and I have given this some thought. As architects we are in the business of creating something that may be new and never drawn before. Perhaps provide an explanation of the need for a creative process and how that is required to get to a solution that can then be drawn and documented for construction.

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    William Halter AIA
    Principal
    Cooper Carry, Inc.
    Atlanta GA

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  • 3.  RE: What do you wish CMs and GCs had learned in school?

    Posted 09-20-2016 05:37 PM
    The construction process is linear!  The design process is not!  This represents a huge difference in how architects and builders process information and complete work.  Designing a building is like writing a novel.  One does not start writing the beginning of the book and write in linear form until the end.  No, there are drafts.  Oftentimes different parts of the novel are developed which then INFORM the other parts of the novel.  i.e. the author just refined the ending, and now has to revise the middle and beginning. The design process is similar to this.   

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    Edward J. Shannon, Architect
    T.515-779-9050



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  • 4.  RE: What do you wish CMs and GCs had learned in school?

    Posted 09-20-2016 07:38 PM
    I wish CMs would take responsibility for the construction instead of passing it to the subs. They may be subs that are low bidders and have never done such projects.

    I wish CMs would remember or learn how to be a (real) General Contractor which has respect for the Architect (and vice versa), carried a big "club" to get the subs in line, and worked
    as a team with the Architect.


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