Architect Job Description
- Design blueprints for various structures, including houses, offices, hospitals, skyscrapers, churches, and municipal buildings.
- Confer with client to develop visions into designs.
- Estimates budgets and time frame.
- Provide various predesign services, including conducting feasibility and environmental impact studies, selecting a site, preparing cost analysis and land-use studies, or specifying the requirements the design must meet.
- Determine space requirements.
- Research potential building users.
- Prepare and present drawings for approval.
- Develop final construction plans.
- Develop air-conditioning, heating, and ventilating systems, electrical systems, communications systems, plumbing; and, possibly, site and landscape plans.
- Specify building materials needed.
- Follow building codes, zoning laws, and fire regulations when creating design.
- Use computer-aided design (CAD) when creating drawings.
- Obtain construction bids and select contractors.
- Negotiate contracts.
- Visit building sites often.
- Perform testing during each phase.
- Advise on energy efficiency measures.
- Evaluate building designs to determine if it fits the needs of occupants.
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