Job address
US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Architecture & Construction
occupation category
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Develops marketing materials, proposals, or presentations to generate new work opportunities
- Integrates engineering elements into unified architectural designs
- Utilizes methodologies for record keeping, document control and revision status during the construction phase
- Engages in strategic planning/problem solving, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, budgetary analysis, and coordination of people and resources
- Lays out footings and building lines and levels
- Identifies various types of glass
- Resolves and presents a coherent detailed design solution within necessary timeframes to obtain client and stakeholder approvals
- Lining up and bracing concrete walls and columns
- Understands the processes for producing project documentation that meets the requirements of the contract and procurement procedure and complies with regulatory controls, building standards, codes, and conditions of construction and planning approvals
- Draws rough and detailed scale plans for foundations, buildings, and structures, based on preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets, and other data
- Performs architectural duties on irregular structures, such as: cupolas, furnace linings, bakers’ ovens, kilns, circular stairways, bay windows, and other irregular structures
- Applies finishes and coatings
- Consults with clients to determine functional or spatial requirements of structures
- Understands the purpose of identification of defects, rectifications and approval substitutions
- Develops final construction plans that include aesthetic representations of the structure or details for its construction
- Converts blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products
- Prepares foundation walls and bases for starting brick work
- Designs structures that incorporate environmentally friendly building practices or concepts, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards
- Monitors the work of specialists, such as electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, interior designers, or sound specialists to ensure optimal form or function of designs or final structures
- Prepares a comprehensive program for an architectural project that includes an assessment of client and user needs; an inventory of spaces and their requirements; an analysis of site conditions (including existing buildings); a review of the relevant building codes and standards, including relevant sustainability requirements, and an assessment of their implications for the project; and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria
- Fabricates mirrors, glass, plastics, and panels
- Represents clients in obtaining bids or awarding construction contracts
- Performs landscaping, masonry duties, and pipe laying
- Performs predesign services, such as feasibility or environmental impact studies
- Understands the principles of contract administration, including certification, variations, instructions, requests for information and practical completion
- Builds and places straight and irregular concrete forms
- Prepares information regarding design, structure specifications, materials, color, equipment, estimated costs, or construction time
- Exercises professional judgment in architectural design and practice and understanding the role of the NCARB Rules of Conduct and the AIA Code of Ethics in defining professional conduct
- Meets with clients to review or discuss architectural drawings
- Responds to site characteristics, including urban context and developmental patterning, historical fabric, soil, topography, ecology, climate, and building orientation, in the development of a project design
- Properly installs mechanical fasteners on doors
- Properly identifies and uses sealants
- Develops or lay out patterns, using computerized metalworking equipment
- Understands processes for selecting materials, finishes, fittings, components and systems, based on consideration of quality and performance standards, the impact on Country and the environment, and the whole life carbon impact of the project
- Lays out and plans interior room arrangements for commercial buildings, using computer-assisted drafting (CAD) equipment and software
- Coordinates structural, electrical, and mechanical designs and determines a method of presentation to graphically represent building plans
- Designs or plans construction of green building projects to minimize adverse environmental impact or conserve energy
- Prepares operating and maintenance manuals, studies, or reports
- Completes and communicates on-time, accurate documents for relevant stakeholders, including drawings, models, specifications, schedules and construction documentation
- Develops project directives, outlines, projections, budgetary estimates, time lines, resource studies, and strategies to meet pertinent building/construction rules, regulations, and permitting
- Produces drawings, using computer-assisted drafting systems (CAD) or drafting machines, or by hand, using compasses, dividers, protractors, triangles, and other drafting devices
- Understands available procurement methods and their application to project delivery, considering relevant factors including project type, scale and coordination of contractors
- Plans and designs transportation or hydraulic systems or structures, using computer-assisted design or drawing tools
- Prepares scale drawings or architectural designs, using computer-aided design or other tools
- Directs activities of technicians engaged in preparing drawings or specification documents
- Designs sites, facilities, and systems that are responsive to relevant codes and regulations, and include the principles of life-safety and accessibility standards
- Building forms for concrete stairways
- Understands the contract components – including all documents – and the process of executing a contract, as defined within the construction contract and in accordance with relevant building and planning codes
- Understands the process of selecting qualified contractors in accordance with an agreed procurement method and construction contract
- Understands diverse needs, values, behavioral norms, physical abilities, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals and the responsibility of the architect to ensure equity of access to sites, buildings, and structures
- Understands how the integration of material selection, structural and construction systems impacts on design outcomes
- Tends, places, and removes concrete
- Prepares contract documents for building contractors
- Conducts periodic on-site observations of construction work to monitor compliance with plans
