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The Business Case for Looking after your People

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Yesterday I was able to attend the Constructing Excellence in Essex event at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. The event was entitled Better Skills for Better Business, you can see the flier for the event here, but I wanted to post today about Liz Lake and her attitude to staff. Liz Lake is a Landscape [...]

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The Business Case for Collaboration in a Recession – But who buys?

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Yesterday I was in London for some meetings (more about them another time) and I was able to go along to an event organised by Bernie Mitchell in the evening at which Don Ward, CEO of Constructing Excellence, gave a talk entitled ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’ – a great slogan borrowed from the Obama [...]

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The Third Reason Why You’re Losing Work

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Many people who run businesses aren’t in it because they love it, and they aren’t constantly motivated to change things for the better. Why should they if it is working? It is only when other pressures force a reassessment that they start looking at their business practices in more depth. And that’s when things get [...]

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So Why Use an Architect Then? And why use Me?

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A look at who has written officially about what architects do, and a guide to working out how to write an elevator pitch for a particular target client.

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Architects: My Client Doesn’t Understand Me

The RIBA Linkedin group has been hosting an interesting discussion thread called ‘Re-Educating Clients’ over the last few months in which I have been participating. You can see it by clicking the link above (but you need to join the group and be a member of Linkedin). It is a fascinating discussion with a great [...]

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Architect’s Low Pay – the RIBA responds

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On Thursday the RIBA issued a press release, RIBA President Ruth Reed takes action to tackle student hardship and low pay, which set out proposals to deal with financial hardship amongst architecture students, graduates and young practitioners.
The proposals include:

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Guest Blog Post: How to charge what you are worth by Sean Sidney

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Most of you charge according to your costs. Charging what you are worth to you. That keeps you in your comfort zone, but it is not how successful businesses charge. Apple, Nike, Unilever, Tesco, etc. all charge what they are worth to their customers. This article is about showing you how to charge what you [...]

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Low-paid architect jobs: An offer you can refuse… to offer

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Image: From the Building Article: Low-Paid architect jobs: An offer you can refuse The construction press is hyperventilating at the moment about an email that a London firm of Architects allegedly sent an unemployed ‘Part II architect’ (i.e. a part qualified masters level applicant). You can read the email on Building’s Website here and also [...]

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Architects aren’t paid enough because 1: they don’t make enough money

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There is a common misconception amongst non-architect that architects are extremely well paid professionals, but this isn’t the case. In November 2007 the Office of National Statistics published a snapshot of UK Salaries which showed Architects (then earning on average just £38,559 Gross a year) were 30th in the list, behind amongst others, Fire, Ambulance, [...]

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It Really Is about Money Stupid

“A third of architectural practices made so little profit in the boom times that they could go bust with the onslaught of the credit crunch, an RIBA survey has revealed. This year’s RIBA Business Benchmarking Survey, released to BD this week, shows that just 67% of firms met the industry safe standard of profits equalling [...]

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