"Residential Design Standards" – Breakthrough In Consumer Protection.

Cumming, GA. September 30, 2002 – Before The Architect, noted leader in architectural and construction consulting, design, and drafting, has just begun to privately publish a living document, "Residential Design Standards", now a 22-page monograph of first-time ever in one place how-to help in getting the new, remodel, and home improvement construction quality that home owners and buyers deserve.

"Residential Design Standards" is by two home designers and builders each with 30+ years experience in both fields. It's this special on-the-building site combo of construction planning and practice by its authors that qualifies this document as one-of-a-kind and well worth it. The text delivers the straight story on ways and means to have your new house or next addition built better, smarter than you may ever have expected, with point-by-point no-nonsense suggestions.

This unique construction guide, written in builders' language with nearly 200 entries and the toughest nailing schedule you may ever see, covers major design and building subjects: Materials; Foundation; Framing; Finishing; Electrical; Water Plumbing; Layout; Fastening; and Passive Venting. Consumers can select from these lists those points that are most important and relevant to their own construction project. Entries can be easily included in blueprints. Before The Architect frequently refines and expands this compendium in the course of daily work.

In developing "Residential Design Standards," Before The Architect principals recognized two potentially conflicting forces in residential construction. One force: more and more homeowners and home buyers seem to know less and less about the basics of good construction and lack the time to learn. The other force: pressures on designers, builders, suppliers, etc. to keep costs down and profits up, possibly resulting in cut corners and marginalized materials and methods that may not serve consumers best interests. Consumers can lose out without knowing, and expose themselves to unnecessary risks, discomforts, and expenses later on. That's where "Residential Design Standards" comes in.

"While everyday folks in the housing market may rightly expect others to be looking out for them – real estate agents, house inspectors, building authorities, and so forth – nothing replaces the knowledgeable, impassioned, and untiring vigilance of homeowners and buyers," Before The Architect recently wrote. "We meant it ["Residential Design Standards" to do just that – a quick and easy way to begin paying attention to some design and construction matters that can be really important long term. Not every word in it can possibly apply to every building circumstance, but there's something useful in "Residential Design Standards" for anyone who's thinking seriously about residential building, remodeling, and home improvements. We use these standards all the time."

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"Residential Design Standards" – Breakthrough In Consumer Protection

A copy goes for $19.95 (w/ S&H). You can check out the monograph in example form (in the Design Consulting section on their site) along with the rest of the informative and entertaining website of Before The Architect at http://www.beforethearchitect.com.




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