Undercurrent
Get the best advice, not the quickest advice. Avoid embracing hasty solutions to complex problems, even when there is enormous pressure to solve them as quickly as possible.
Sham Chateau
Agreeing to build a high-quality neoclassical masterpiece in the Ontario hinterlands, without the appropriately extravagant budget required, can only result in a deteriorating client relationship, and a dilapidated building.
Cutting Corners
Attempting to create a high-end look with subpar materials is likely to result in significant structural issues, costly repairs, and potential legal troubles.
The Retirement Home
Interpersonal conflicts can lead to litigation. In this this claim story, a project for a retirement home spirals into legal chaos.
Lowest Bidder Loses
Bid mishandling is a serious allegation. Learn how to preserve the integrity of the system and avoid this accusation.
The Level Made Me Do It.
How reliable is a survey? When a fire hydrant used as a survey benchmark is replaced by a new fixture, and a site is over-excavated as a result, who is responsible, and how does a seemingly minor 20 cm error in site levels lead to a massive $1.2 million lawsuit?
Out of Site. Out of Control.
A retrofit presents special difficulties. In this case, a bid document requiring x-ray vision was unreasonable and unenforceable; a stipulated sum contract proved to be the wrong vehicle for unknowable site conditions; and a failure of mechanical and electrical co-ordination created costly delay and chaos.
The Claims-Free Architect Podcast
For every architect who aspires to be claims-free in practice, this podcast is for you.
Architects’ Claims Stories
Seasons 1 and 2 of Architects’ Claims Stories are packaged together for 3.5 hours of entertaining and educational stories for architects, foreign-trained architectural professionals and architectural interns.
Visual Evidence
It’s often been said that seeing is believing, and this is certainly true in legal proceedings. Ever since movies were first allowed into a courtroom, film and video have provided a reliable way of capturing reality and presenting it as evidence. Who knows how many people have been convicted or exonerated on the basis of images on a screen? In this episode, featuring two stories, Architects find themselves confronted by video evidence that may reveal either guilt or innocence. And neither is certain.