Campaign renderings are usually made before the engineers have placed a single speaker, diffuser, or rooftop unit, and the trees in them are decades old. Here is what an architectural rendering typically leaves out, and how to ask for the honest version before anyone writes a check.
Eight weeks into design, a building committee asked us a fair question: what exactly have you been doing? Design takes as long as it does because design is not drawing, it is deciding. Here is what actually happens in schematic design, design development, and construction documents, and why the design schedule is really a decision schedule.
