Design is Everything
Offering and rendering professional services with a focus on architecture and engineering in the design and construction of the built environment. The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity; living, working and playing, ranging in scale from buildings and green space to neighborhoods and cities that can often include their supporting infrastructure.
Service involves the creative application of knowledge in art, science, economics and humanity in the process and product of planning, designing, development, building, maintaining and improving buildings and other physical structures.
Products include form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, environmental and aesthetic considerations. It requires the creative manipulation and coordination of materials and technology, and of light and shadow. Often, conflicting requirements must be resolved. The practice also encompasses the pragmatic aspects of realizing buildings and structures, including scheduling, cost estimation and construction administration. Documentation produced, typically drawings, plans and technical specifications, define the structure and/or behavior of a building or other kind of system that is to be or has been constructed.
