Just wondering if anybody has come across a site like this specificlly for architecs. Some place where archi’s can swap ideas and ask technical Q. I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall to hear what they have to say abought contractors who make ‘sugesstions’ on desighn.
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After finding this in my first look over there, I think it would not be good for my blood pressure:
"...We need to establish laws that require architects licensed to practice, design and stamp all permited construction building projects and we need to regulate and mandate minimum architectural fees nation wide. In this way the competition for design services is about design quality and not about architects fees because the fees will all be about the same, and those who want high design can pay to get it and the rest of us can live in a world of competently designed buildings. This is an essential component of achieving sustainable built environment."
Mandate minimum fees?
Require all buildings stamped by a licensed archy?
I need a beer...
All architects are competant designers?
That seems to be the premise of that quote.
Something tells me that they wouldn't find us too welcome. There used to be another site from AIBDs but it is now closed to the general public, as are a few others I know - membership only.
Most of thesites I am more familiar with are user's groups for various software, like SPLASH the SoftPlan users group.
BTW, Softplan (the corp) just took over the SPLASH website and is making plans to have it available free for anyone who owns the program.
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VW has a user site open to all people, but its content is VW specific. (They just came out with new major version with tons of cool stuff that'll help me.) But, like you, I haven't found good design forums. I have no interest in the snobbery of the kind of thing I quoted. I especially loved the mandated fee part!
Not that BT needs another folder, but Residential Design would be an interesting one. When I have design questions or stories, there's never a good folder for it.
I would like to see a place for knocking around design idea too.
It could be that the pride involved in propritatery work gets inthe wayof sharing ideas while in developement. The other thing is that the discussion itself involves speaking with a pencil and sketch paper when in person, so the online version of a design bull session would take more time. That time might get in the way of such a virtual pencil jam.
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another site from AIBD
No great loss. TIBD, either. I do know that they tried to lobby the Texas Board of Licensing and Registration for membership (it seems they may not have appreciated the laughter). They'd like to see language as restrictive (if not more so) as anybody else--if it does not have an archy stamp, then it must have an aibd stamp instead, woulf be their intent.
Not bad gumption for a trumped up stock plan drafting association . . . Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
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I said something controversial? It's not like I insulted hockey or anything...
LOL,
The hockey has been great !
What I meant was the ageless battle of the Builder & Architect.
I probabably should have just shut up but I have this twisted sense of humour.
Spent the day working out the design/engineering for a passive wine cellar in the Northeast. Too many formulae & hypothesis I guess. <G>On a hill by the harbour
Tell me more about the passive wine cellar....that sounds cool....get it, cool? Really, love to hear the elements of that design.
As for the other, if someone wants to tell all the design-build guys here they should stick to building only, I'd pay for a ticket to watch. Or if someone wants to tell me I shouldn't have designed my own house... And mandated pricing? Ha ha ha...
Let's leave the design /build out of it for now cause I are one.......
The wine cellar thing is a fun one. Ideal temp is 55 Deg F (50-60) cycle is the goal. Relative humidity is supposed to be between 70-80% I think but haven't gotten far enough in the research for that.
The first book I am reading is "How & Why to Build A Wine Cellar" by Richard M Gold.
So far this seems to be a very wierd equation between semi permiable vapour barriers and selectively different insulation R values.
The control factor for passive is the median earth temperature which here in Nova Scotia is around 55 Deg F.
I was going to start a new thread on this but my research is still too fresh.On a hill by the harbour
>Let's leave the design /build out of it for now cause I are one
I know, I'm in favor of that concept...live and let live...
"we need to regulate and mandate minimum architectural fees nation wide. "
there are just so many things wrong with that position, on so many levels in so many ways, that it would be nearly impossible to even start a decent rebuttal. was this on a north korean or cuban website, by any chance? holy sh!t... hardly seems like a beer would even dent a thinking person's dismay at such idiocy- you may need something stronger.
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>hardly seems like a beer would even dent
The bottle might dent it...
about that passive wine cellar- 55 degrees and 70-80% humidity is not a bad description of my crawl space. i've been thinking about sealing off and insulating the largely wasted space under our stairs and circulating/cooling/ventilating it from the crawl space underneath for wine storage. any thoughts, anybody?
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I had to look this up recently for a client and bookmarked this: "By convention, these conditions have become the standard for modern wine cellars: 55-58 degrees and 55-75% relative humidity." http://www.winecellarinnovations.com/refrigeration.htm
Thanks for the link Cloud.
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I guess Ill start a new thread off of this . Not fair to impose the same thoughts here .
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