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Keep it or knock it down? How we cost a retrofit
At Gallowgate Works the client arrived with a demolition price. Keeping the warehouse came out £310,000 cheaper. Here is how we built the comparison.
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- What an architect's fee pays for, stage by stage Eleven per cent of the build cost sounds like a lot until you see where it goes. A plain breakdown of our fee on a £150,000 extension, stage by stage.
- What a section is for, and why we draw it first A plan tells you where the walls are. A section tells you whether the building works. Most arguments on a job are section arguments wearing a plan's clothes.
- Sixteen owners, one roof: how common repair actually gets agreed Tenement repair fails on the paperwork, not the building. Organising the drawings by cost centre instead of by trade took consent at Dennistoun Close from nine months to eleven weeks.