ᐅ Ending Collaboration with an Architect after Design Development (Stage 4) – What Next?
Created on: 7 Jun 2020 13:16
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laumar01
Hello, we planned our solid single-family house together with an architect (LF1- LF4). Unfortunately, we were not satisfied with the collaboration overall, so we decided to part ways after the successful building permit / planning permission application. Since we consider ourselves building novices, a separate tendering process for the trades with our own construction management is not an option for us, and we are leaning towards turnkey construction with a general contractor.
The building permit / planning permission is currently being processed by the building authority. Now we are quite unsure how to proceed with the next steps and how the cooperation with a general contractor will work if they are executing a house that they did not design themselves.
Does anyone have any tips for us?
What should we pay attention to, and which pitfalls should we avoid?
Has anyone had similar experiences and made a change after LF4?
Thank you in advance for your help!
The building permit / planning permission is currently being processed by the building authority. Now we are quite unsure how to proceed with the next steps and how the cooperation with a general contractor will work if they are executing a house that they did not design themselves.
Does anyone have any tips for us?
What should we pay attention to, and which pitfalls should we avoid?
Has anyone had similar experiences and made a change after LF4?
Thank you in advance for your help!
DASI90 schrieb:
Where in Karlsruhe are you building? €475 per cubic meter (approximately $520 per cubic yard) seems ambitious for Karlsruhe. Or was that figure excluding additional construction costs? We are also building in Karlsruhe with an architect and estimate around €620 per cubic meter (about $680 per cubic yard), and we are still within the budget. The standard is not the lowest, of course, but I assume you didn’t choose the lowest standard either since you chose an architect for the ‘appearance.’ We are not building directly in Karlsruhe but in the rural area between Karlsruhe and Pforzheim. The €475 per cubic meter (about $520 per cubic yard) was without additional construction costs. Including those, we estimate around €720,000.
