We've had a busy spring! We've spent time with Gensler, Perkins & Will, Ziegler Cooper, Inventure, E-Studio, PGAL, A2Studio and Powers Brown to name a few!
Design Professionals, is YOUR office on our presentation calendar??
4 Ways We Work
In the commercial construction industry, there are a number of different teams leading your project. We often get questions about where we fit in. Here is a list of the 4 contracts which we can work under.
But no matter the contract option you choose, don't forget to specify us in your drawings! Contact us if you need guidance.
The General Contractor
If the project is large enough to warrant a general contractor and our work is “built in”, we can take the identity of a subcontractor underneath the GC.
The Furniture Dealer (or The Procurement Company)
Freestanding or furniture items are often underneath a contract with the furniture dealer or procurement company.
Built-In Items can also fall underneath this contract for the following reasons:
There is not a general contractor on the project.
The end user does not want to be the project manager for the item.
The furniture budget has room for the item but the construction budget does not.
The Art Consultant
The most common item we do that falls underneath the Art Consultant’s contract is the Feature Wall or Logo Wall. This is typical when the art consultant is designing the wall on behalf of the client.
The End User
We work with an end user directly in the following scenarios:
There isn’t a large scope project requiring a general contractor or other design professional.
They want to avoid markups from other vendors.
Our schedule does not allow for completion of our work during the timeframe of the other vendors on the project.
Teaching Moment: What is Pantone?
What is Pantone? In 1963, “Pantone revolutionized the printing industry with the colorful PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM®, an innovative tool allowing for the faithful selection, articulation and reproduction of consistent, accurate color anywhere in the world.” Design professionals rely heavily on the Pantone system because it is indeed, universal.
Why is Pantone this month’s teaching moment? Well, there’s a word in the description above that tends to be glossed over (pardon the pun) and it’s very important. That word is “printing”. Pantone was designed for ink and printing. We often get requests to match a paint or powdercoat color to a Pantone color and while the paint industry can get pretty darn close, they simply do not crossover perfectly. It’s always best to use Pantone as a starting point but choose paint and powdercoat colors from the actual manufacturer’s selections.
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