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Our Firm
Skoda Design & Architecture’s (SD+A) comprehensive design approach integrates architecture, interior design, and construction with building information management (BIM) systems to produce innovative, sustainable projects. We aim to meet and exceed our clients’ financial and technological expectations at every opportunity.
Technology
SD+A uses technology and communication tools that accurately captures the design process for faster, smarter, and better workflow. We work with raw and available technologies in new ways to encourage inventive problem solving, and to streamline the entire pre-design and pre-construction process throughout all phases for the most economical design solutions.
Client Service & Communication
The best buildings begin with conversations among the client, architect, and consultants. To initiate the process, the team and the client meet to identify and understand key project issues, develop the project’s program and timelines, evaluate the site, identify environmental and life-cycle issues, and establish and review the budget.
Each project comes with its own unique challenges. We provide leadership and unsurpassed service that begins with studies of the project’s site, program, budget, and special issues and restrictions. The information gained from these studies and many conversations with the client informs all phases of the project from the earliest concept to post-occupancy evaluation. We expect each client to be our most valued collaborator throughout the design process. Providing comprehensive, well-documented information anticipates problems and allows the client to make educated decisions about the design, schedule, and budget every step along the way.
Our leadership and attention to detail are reflected first in the conceptual design process then in the level of detail for the drawings and specifications, and throughout the pre-construction process to final completion of the project
Design
SD+A focuses on producing aesthetically pleasing designs, with efficiencies ranging in planning, cost and life cycle analysis, functionality, flexibility and primary material selection at the project’s earliest stages. Designing within a broad architectural vocabulary, we create buildings that are tailored to each client’s needs aesthetically, functionally, and economically.
Cost Control
Cost control begins at a project’s inception. Because costs are best managed by incorporating them along with the process of design, we do not review milestone estimates at the end of each phase but during each major decision, by the incorporation of construction management and construction planning early in the process.