The most expensive mistakes are the ones no one catches in time.
Fifty years in residential and commercial architecture — from a site you're weighing, to the drawings you're about to build, to the job already underway.
A Senior Architect's read at the points where mistakes get expensive.
For small architecture firms, developers, owners’ reps, and GC precon teams.
On a building under construction, the entry slab sat about two inches above the public sidewalk, with the storefront framing already going in. There was no room to slope a public sidewalk up to the door, so the storefront had to move back and the entrance was redesigned and rebuilt on the project’s own property. Check it on paper, not after the pour.
Early in my career, the structural engineer moved a column and I missed the change; once the steel went up, it sat partly in the exit stair door opening, and the correction cost time and money nobody had planned to spend. My production manager then had me overlaying structural and MEP sheets on our drawings at a light table. I still treat every drawing as an unverified claim.
Registered Architect, State of Texas (No. 7946) · Former developer-owner · 50 years in residential and commercial work.
A veteran architect's written read on your drawings before you build — proportion, circulation, buildability, and the costly mistakes that only surface on site. The design read — not a code check.
Your drawings checked for building-code compliance — egress, accessibility, fire separation, occupancy — before you submit for permit. The code check — not a design read.
Senior oversight through construction — RFIs, submittals, site observation, pay-app review — keeping the build true to the drawings.
Fixed fee, quoted before any work starts. Written report typically within two business days.