The professionals who build buildings also need to build their practices.
The key to business development in the built environment is understanding the relationship between architect, building materials, contractors and clients – and how each group makes decisions.
In As Built, you’ll hear from industry leaders about how they built their practice. Hosts Brian Jones and Patience Jones also provide insights from their experiences helping firms in the built environment industry grow and succeed.
Episode: 29
As Built Interview with Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, HASLA
Architect Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, HASLA is a Design Principal and Founder of Ross Barney Architects. She is also the 2023 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal, the highest honor the AIA can bestow. In this episode, Carol discusses her career path and how it informed the driving principle behind her work and her life: that excellent design is a right, not a privilege.
Episode: 28
How Building Materials Can Address Rising Costs
When your business is interwoven with the supply chain, you have the unenviable task of explaining to customers why something costs more today than it did yesterday. While you can’t do much about the costs themselves, there are ways to address changes with your customers that can help keep and grow your business.
Episode: 27
Motivation
In this episode, we discuss what does – and doesn’t – work for architecture and building materials firms trying to keep everyone going even when you don’t feel like it.
Episode: 26
Building Relationships
When’s the last time you talked with someone about something other than a project? In this episode, we offer some tips on building relationships outside of the office.
Episode: 25
As Built Interview with Anthony Vincent Pope
In this episode of As Built, Brian Jones interviews Anthony Pope, founder of Atelier 7, about his transition from traditional architecture to using shipping containers for innovative and cost-effective design solutions.
Episode: 24
Growth Challenges: Time
Whether you’re trying to grow your firm or it’s already in growth mode, you’re likely trying to figure out how to pack 36 hours of thought and activity into a 24-hour day. If it feels like the more you do, the more you have to do, this episode is for you.
Episode: 23
Is Getting Published All That Matters?
If your firm’s work gets published, the assumption goes, you’ve “made it” – and you don’t have to do anything else but sit back and wait for the work to roll in.
Episode: 22
As Built Interview with Daniel Piselli, AIA, LEED AP, CPHD
In this episode, we speak with Daniel Piselli, Principal and Director of Sustainability at FXCollaborative, about his career path, what sustainability really means, and the future of sustainability in architecture.
Episode: 21
TechStack: Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMs)
DAMs provide a place to store images and other files, so you can find what you need when you need it and allow others in the firm to easily access images too.