For architects
Written for the way a practice runs.
Most software made for architects is for drawing. The rest of the practice, the fee proposal, the drawing register, the site visit, the certificate, tends to live in spreadsheets and email, kept by whoever was last on the job.
These notes take the parts of running a practice that sit around the design work, one at a time: how each one goes, what tends to go wrong with it, and how Nolliworks keeps it.
The notes
- IFeesThe fee, from proposal to payment.Fee proposals by RIBA stage and service level, invoiced by how far each stage has got, with time and expenses alongside. From proposal to payment.
- IITimesheetsWhere the week went.Timesheets for architecture practices: hours by job and RIBA stage, fee-earning time against target, and charge-out rates that keep their history.
- IIIDrawingsWhat went out, and to whom.A drawing register that knows revisions and suitability codes, and issue sheets that record what went out, at which revision, to whom and why.
- IVSite visitsBack from site.Record a site visit as it happens: photos, recordings and notes on your phone, kept safe without signal and sent in order once there is. Then write it up.
- VContract administrationOn site, in the contract’s own words.Contract administration on the JCT and RIBA building contracts: instructions, RFIs, certificates and extensions of time, in each form’s own terms and clauses.
- VIThe RIBA stagesA road through hard ground.Each job through the RIBA stages, with gate checks before each is signed off, a risk register, decisions with their reasons, and the Building Safety Act gateways.
- VIISpecificationComing into focus.A specification kept as a series of decisions, from intent at Stage 2 to named products at Stage 4, with build-ups in section: U-value, moisture and carbon.
- VIIIAIAI ready… but only when you are.AI that answers from your own job’s record, every point traced to its source, and adds nothing to the record until someone confirms it. Or none at all.
If this is how you would like to work
We are letting practices in a few at a time. Tell us a little about yours: it takes about three minutes, and we will be in touch as places open up.