ᐅ Architect – Flat-Rate Quote Instead of Fee Structure for Residential Single-Family House
Created on: 25 May 2022 08:09
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gregman22
Dear community,
After careful consideration, we have now chosen an architect with whom we feel the best overall confidence. Yesterday, we had our final meeting with him.
Regarding the status of our project: We are currently preparing the land purchase with the notary. After that, a single-family house with a granny flat will be built.
The architect has now shared the following information with us:
1) His office focuses on design services. Therefore, he would be involved up to work phase 5. For the subsequent phases, he would recommend several site managers he has had good experiences with.
2) He does not bill according to HOAI (Fee Structure for Architects and Engineers). Instead, he offers a fixed fee from the start for the services. He explained that he prefers planning security for both parties and does not want to be motivated by a higher project volume.
I would like to prepare a calculation for the individual work phases to understand what range an HOAI-based quote would fall into as a reference. Could you support me with this calculation?
As an assumption, I would like to use project costs of €1.5 million (approximately $1.6 million) and set a normal single-family house complexity level (III or 4?).
Would you initially commission work phases 1 and 2 and then continue with further phases afterward? Is there anything else to consider?
Thank you very much!
After careful consideration, we have now chosen an architect with whom we feel the best overall confidence. Yesterday, we had our final meeting with him.
Regarding the status of our project: We are currently preparing the land purchase with the notary. After that, a single-family house with a granny flat will be built.
The architect has now shared the following information with us:
1) His office focuses on design services. Therefore, he would be involved up to work phase 5. For the subsequent phases, he would recommend several site managers he has had good experiences with.
2) He does not bill according to HOAI (Fee Structure for Architects and Engineers). Instead, he offers a fixed fee from the start for the services. He explained that he prefers planning security for both parties and does not want to be motivated by a higher project volume.
I would like to prepare a calculation for the individual work phases to understand what range an HOAI-based quote would fall into as a reference. Could you support me with this calculation?
As an assumption, I would like to use project costs of €1.5 million (approximately $1.6 million) and set a normal single-family house complexity level (III or 4?).
Would you initially commission work phases 1 and 2 and then continue with further phases afterward? Is there anything else to consider?
Thank you very much!
gregman22 schrieb:
The planning firm is responsible for design phases 1 through 5. I will try to select the future site manager (external) early on and involve them in phases 3 and 5. Although I am not yet sure how to motivate them to take an interest in phases 3 and 5 without financial incentives, I definitely don’t see it as your responsibility to arrange the site manager’s involvement in the design phases. From my perspective, it would be more effective to contract the architect for phases 1 through 8, including a termination option after phase 2, and to agree on which (if any) colleague they will assign to continue after phase 5; that is, making the successor service provider a subcontractor under the main architect. If the architect resists this, I would draw the appropriate conclusions (and here I suspect I think the same way as @Gerddieter). You apparently did not want to comment on whether a discrepancy between planning and construction location is the reason in your case to accept this split, so I will limit myself to reminding other readers that, in my opinion, this is the only legitimate reason for such a split.
gregman22 schrieb:
From phase 6 through phase 8, the new site manager takes over exclusively, and the architect remains involved only peripherally. Just as you cannot be “a little bit pregnant,” you cannot manage controlling the project partially. The way you describe the architect’s background involvement is too vague for me. At least I’m glad you’re not crazy enough to want to handle phases 6 and 7 yourself.
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