Professional
Redesigning your space, renovating your building façades, expanding an existing building or building a new one.
Savard Architecte can help you by offering the following professional services.
Coordination with the municipality
- Verification and validation of the bylaws;
- Coordination of minor exemptions;
- Presentation of a colour document to the Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) to illustrate the intentions of your project, renderings, exterior finishing materials, and the site plan overview, if required.
Design
- Needs assessment;
- Survey (measurement) of the building and AutoCAD drawing;
- Choice of interior and exterior finishing materials;
- Sketch of your project.
Drawings and specifications
- Preparation of the different stages of the drawings: preliminary plans, for approval, for permits, tender and construction;
- Development of technical specifications according to the sections of the “Master Specifications” applicable to your project;
- Coordination with all consultants and professionals.
Administration and partial supervision of the work
- Partial supervision of the construction work;
- Preparation of the minutes (site minutes);
- Preparation of the field reports;
- Coordination and verification of shop drawings;
- Drafting of the change directive and change order;
- Processing of applications and certificates for payment;
- Site surveys and lists of deficiencies;
- Preparation of certificates of work performance and work completion;
- General coordination with all consultants and professionals.
Built-in furniture
- Design of custom, built-in furniture designed to meet your storage needs, kitchen, bathroom, etc.;
- Furniture design and drawings.
Tender process
- Preparation of tenders;
- Preparation of addenda;
- Coordination of general contractors invited to bid;
- Compliance analysis of bids received;
- Preparation of contract between the client and the general contractor.
Other services
- Regulation of the building;
- Detailed plan for liquor license;
- Preliminary budget estimate of project construction costs;
- Renderings and other colour documents;
- Preliminary schedule for each project step;
- Management of your project as an architect consultant;
- Measurement and BOMA certificate;
- Building expertise: Onsite investigation to identify problems related to the building envelope, analysis of the situation and proposed solutions to issues (according to budget);
- Architect consultant: Our experience can help you at the different stages in your project, by responding to unexpected problems and making the appropriate decisions.