Apart from achieving validation of a planning application in Somerset, no mean feat, this week has been challenging for additional reasons.
What I call my management style, I take on work and am always surprised when it gets done in a timely fashion.
This month has been all about finishing off existing projects and starting new ones and in some cases revisiting projects which were built during the pandemic.
This week has been full of variety, one pre-app submitted, more surveying, two new enquiries, two site visits and meetings to check progress.
It is so hard for architecture students to find work in their year out. In the old days it was a case of who you knew and you could easily get a placement.
Two applications were submitted for listed building consent at the beginning of 2025 which is the monthly average for the practice. The next two are currently in the production line.
This week the practice has been awarded one new project and another is moving into a new phase of detailed design. On the downside site visits have been curtailed by extensive flooding and when I did actually get to site I was surveying in Siberian weather conditions.
A wide range of activities took place this week with visits to new and existing projects, and en route two Grade I listed parish churches.
This week was spent surveying, in the fog, and doing some detective work which is quite normal for determining the history of buildings.
The office is buzzing with exciting new projects – three surveys and one additional enquiry this week alone. It is a great privilege to be joined by daughter No 2 as a part-time assistant which is a fruitful partnership, bringing interior design skills to the practice and Vector Works.