Architetc LLC / Based in Sarasota FL / Serving Everywhere You Are

SERVING OWNERS, DEVELOPERS, ARCHITECTS, CONTRACTORS AND LENDERS

“Design and construction isn’t easy, and success is not a given. We often are called in to right a project that has derailed. The single best thing we do is to instill or restore best practices and discipline to the process.

“And the single most heard client remark is that they wish they had brought us in much earlier. We agree!

“So our response to that is, don’t wait! Engage with us now, because mistakes are much less costly to avoid than to correct.”

Shawn Glen Pierson, Prinicipal

Services for OWNERS and DEVELOPERS    

BUILDING OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS face an ever-more complex and specialized design and construction workforce.

The design and construction landscape is filled with Owners that simply chose the wrong design team or consultants or contractors for a particular project, and then had the wrong terms within their written contracts with designers and constructors. This is often how agreements become conflicts, and how over-budget and delayed projects occur.

Most Owners simply accept the Proposal offered, and do not necessarily understand the intricacies of design or construction proposal or contract terms (especially those terms that are missing) that might work to their advantage or disadvantage. While poor or uncoordinated documentation often derails projects, better documentation properly structures the project process and relationships,

Architetc LLC helps ensure selection of the right team for a particular project, and provides advantageous and coordinated agreement terms, then manages that team under those agreements for a smoother process and a more successful result, with higher return on investment.

Believe it or not, the design and construction process can be fun.

Architetc LLC assists by leading the design and construction teams, instilling best practices, and disciplining the process, so the Owner doesn't need to discipline the people.

From pre-construction to post-occupancy Architetc LLC offers good ideas, and good options, that the Owner may elect to include or save for reference, in accordance with the Owner’s priorities.

  • Owner’s Representation / Consulting

  • Site Selection / Working with Brokers and Agents

  • Site Due Diligence

  • Site and Project Entitlements / Working with Attorneys, Governments / Matter-of-Right and Discretionary Approvals, Site Plan Approvals, Zoning Representation

  • Professional Team Selection / Civil Engineer, Architect, Consultants

  • Professional Team Agreements and Management

  • Design Documentation Reviews

  • Construction Team Selection / Contractor, Subcontractors, Vendors

  • Construction Team Agreements and Management

  • Construction Administration / Applications for Payment, Proposed Change Orders, Submittals, Requests for Information, Affidavits of Waiver and Release of Lien, Punch Lists, Warranties and Project Close-out

  • Owner Scope Management / Consultants, Vendors

  • Post-Occupancy Scopes of Work / Concierge Services, Facilities, Warranty and Vendor Management

Mr. Pierson holds Project Management Institute national membership.

Services for ARCHITECTS    

ARCHITECTS work almost exclusively in-house, following their own practice’s established processes. Working in silos, it is easy to develop counter-productive habits that may be difficult to self-diagnose and even more challenging to correct.

Architects rarely see other firms’ level of practice for comparison to their own. Architetc LLC regularly engages with mulitple Architectural firms, and regularly reviews their work, discovering the strengths and weaknesses of one design practice versus another.

Consulting with Architetc LLC assists Architects to adapt to positive change, adopt better practice dynamics, and to proactively learn from others’ mistakes, before they might otherwise learn from their own.

Architetc LLC brings an objective perspective to help Architectural firms elevate the quality of their process and their product.

Design and Project Architects usually have completed Construction Documents a year or more before construction, and have moved on to new projects. Architectural firms have an interest in keeping their Design and Project Architects at their desks, rather than traveling to and from projects under construction.

With significant Construction Administration experience, Architetc LLC can be the Architect’s eyes and ears on-site, while allowing the office staff to be more productive.

With Architetc LLC as the Architetc’s CA representative, the Architectural firm remains time and cost-efficient, with trusted and communicative expertise in the field.

  • Best Practices / Consulting

  • Client Acquisition / Consulting

  • Owner-Architect Agreements / Consulting

  • Architect-Consultant Agreements / Consulting, Management

  • Specifications / Performance, Proprietary, Division 1 / Consulting

  • Design Documentation / Peer Review

  • Construction Administration / Construction Site Representation Applications for Payment, Proposed Change Orders, Submittals, Requests for Information, Punch Lists

Services for CONTRACTORS    

CONTRACTORS love to build things. Many entered the business to build a lasting legacy.

Contractors, and especially small-to-medium size firms and generational family businesses, are also products of their own in-house practices and habits. Contractors, being excellent doers, often confidently prefer to do things their way, for better or worse.

Architetc LLC regularly sees the processes and practices of many construction firms, and regularly encounters the strengths, weaknesses and results of one construction practice versus another.

Consulting with Architetc LLC, especially in the Pre-Construction phase, helps Contractors to proactively learn from others’ mistakes, before they might otherwise learn from their own.

With significant Construction Administration experience, Architetc LLC can assist the Contractor to properly scope the work, avoid missing scopes, and capture the details, or missing and required details, that make or break the quality, schedule and profitability of construction.

  • Best Practices / Consulting

  • Client Acquisition / Consulting

  • Owner-Contractor Agreements / Consulting

  • Contractor-Subcontractor/Vendor Agreements / Consulting

  • Pre-Construction Requests for Information / Consulting

  • Submittals / Consulting

  • Specifications / Scope and Detail Review

  • Construction Documentation / Scope and Detail Review

Services for LENDERS

LENDERS require experienced eyes on the projects for which they commit significant financial resources, and for which much is at stake. Consulting with the Bank’s project managers, and with the project Architect and Contractor’s project managers and superintendents, Architetc LLC provides expert estimates and reports of Work Completed and Stored to Date, and evaluations of the required documentation and level of process in accordance with best practices for project administration.

  • Progressive Inspections and Reports

  • Application for Payment Review

  • AIA Forms G702 - G703 Review

  • Change Order Review

  • Plan and Cost Review


Shawn Glen Pierson 240 731 6278