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architecture: Building Designer Polling R.E. Agents! - 01/14/09 06:25 AM

Real Estate Agents earn a great deal more money than architects. Did you all know that? Despite a fee percentage ranging from about 10-15% of the estimated construction cost typically, architect's profits are typically about 10% of this amount or 1-1.5% and often it's negative. Agents earn 3-6% notwithstanding the horror stories which I am sure you all have experienced.
Further, the amount of work it takes an architect to earn their money is substantially more than real estate agents as well including free consultations, programming, conceptual design (models and color renderings), design development, construction drawings and specifications, bidding administration, construction administration … (7 comments)

architecture: GREEN DESIGN vs GREEN LIFESTYLE - 12/23/08 11:52 AM

After completing graduate school in Architecture at Ohio State (1993), I was gifted the opportunity to work for a former employer whom had moved back to Jamaica. I spent one year in the hills above Montego Bay (Kempshot, Jamaica) and six more years in the Capital City of Kingston where I operated my own firm, became the first American to be registered as a professional architect and taught at the Caribbean School of Architecture. I say this to emphasize that I can certainly attest to the fact that Green Design is a lifestyle and not merely the regulation of material toxicity … (3 comments)

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