❖ OFFICE PROJECT MANAGEMENT ✓ Low person hours

✓ Small Team
✓ Size of the budget and the balance
between the time committed to
delivering the project.
PROJECT TEAM
- may be divided into sub-teams according to need
- a team of two: an architect and client
Office Management
- profession involving the design,
implementation, evaluation and maintenance.
- provides overall framework
- involves the allocation and financing of
resource.
Office Manager PROJECT MANAGER
- responsible for monitoring and reviewing - central figure on a project team
systems - responsible of managing design, schedule and
- may supervise or manage a team of budget
administrators, ➢ TRAITS AND ABILITIES
Project Management ✓ Organized
- practice of initiating, planning, executing, ✓ Enthusiastic achieving high standards.
controlling and closing the work ✓ communicates well
- PROJECT – unique product, service or result with ✓ motivates the project team
a defined beginning and end. ✓ delegates when appropriate
PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT ✓ listens well and can interpret clearly
1. Initiation Phase ✓ attacks aggressively every problem
2. Planning Phase ✓ persuasive in a pleasing manner
3. Execution Phase ✓ Has a conscious sense of time,
4. Monitoring and Performance Phase ✓ Know where to find the answers
5. Closure Phase ✓ gives a credit to the team
✓ results-oriented
PROJECT CONSTRAINTS MANAGING STAFFS AND CONSULTANTS
- part-time draftsperson, a consultant, the
contractor and the client.
EFFECTIVE PROJECT TEAM CHARACTERISTICS
- convene and communicate easily
- interactive and open to all members
- have a mutual understanding of each other’s
roles and skills
- technical problem-solving and interpersonal
skills
SMALL-SCALE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - truly meaningful purpose-clearly articulated,
understood and advocated for by all members
- handles smaller projects
- specific set of team goals exists
o Project are characterized by the following
PROJECT OPERATION
factors:
- ongoing execution of activities
✓ Short duration
- Control- method or mechanism
 A. START-UP
- Includes project definition, acquisition, DESIGN TEAM ARRANGEMENT
planning and contract negotiation - team includes other firm with special expertise in
B. PROJECT AUTHORIZATION building engineering systems.
- Establishing the necessary projects COMMON PROBLEMS IN INTER-FIRM ALLIANCE AND
accounts DESIGN TEAM ARRANGEMENT
C. PROJECTS’ FILES - Misunderstanding with the field of work
- The most effective project filing system is - Miscommunication of each member.
one that can be easily understood and used ADVANTAGES
by everyone - can gather more data
D. KEY PROJECT INFORMATION - More people are working
- Project directory - The division of label is much easy and more
- Project program and construction budget organize
requirements - benefit of a joint venture
PROJECT CONTROL DISADVANTAGES
- work process of the developing plans - the whole project will turn into a mess and worst
INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS it might be ruined, if didn’t work.
- Architects routinely retain consultants. - some workers tend to procrastinate
- architects are subconsultants to other
professionals ❖ THE BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECT-CONSULTANT RELATIONSHIP
- most common interprofessional relationship is BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
that between the architect and the professional - used to align strategic objectives and tactical
engineer demands
CONSULTANT SERVICES & RESPONSIBILITIES ARCHITECTURAL FIRM
- Consultant services to the architect are outlined - defined as a sole proprietorship, a partnership
in the architect-consultant agreement. or a corporation registered with the proper
SERVICES government agencies.
- Each professional service identified may be SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
provided by any of the following: - individual architect practicing and delivering
✓ THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM, THROUGH ITS architectural services
OWN STAFF. ARCHITECTURAL PARTNERSHIP
✓ A CONSULTANT TO THE OWNER. - Means a group of two or more Architects
✓ THE OWNER. ARCHITECTURAL COMPANY
ROLE IN PROJECT PLANNING. - means a juridical entity
- consultant then can commit to services, scope, ARCHITECTURAL CORPORATION
schedule, and fee - means a group of professionals in architecture
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ARCHITECT. and allied professions
- the architect assumes primary contractual A QUICK GUIDE TO RUNNING AN ARCHITECTURE FIRM
responsibility to the owner for the accuracy and ▪ Setting goals
completeness of the work of the architect’s ▪ Getting Started
consultants. ▪ Attracting and Retaining Talent
INTERFIRM ALLIANCES ▪ Using Technology
- defined as any voluntary initiated cooperative BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
agreement between firms ✓ MARKETING – with the purpose of securing a
commission.
 - includes everything related to business
development
MARKETING- Two Points of View
- the perspective of the architect or architectural
practice;
- the perspective of the secured or potential client.
The Architect’s Perspective
- What types of clients and projects does the
practice want?
- What services does the practice want to provide
for these clients?
- How does the practice want to provide these
services:
o Geographically?
o Technologically?
o With what resources?
- Why does the practice want to do this?
- How will the work be carried out?
The Client’s Perspective
- Marketing must be considered from the client’s
point of view, ensuring the language and
information conveyed is meaningful to the client
5 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FOR
ARCHITECTS
1. Identify your ideal client.
2. Networking for success.
3. Invest in social media
4. Invest in your website portfolio.
5. Start your public speaking.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
- series of activities which provide opportunities
for the architect to become known in the
community.
- directed to the community at large.
✓ BRAND - image and personality of a product or
service that a business provides.
HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR BRAND?
- Identify your niche
- Develop your name, logo and tagline
- Develop your position statement
- Develop your website
❖ GLOBAL PRACTICE
- Not all Filipino architects may not be prepared to
compete with foreign architects in their own land
as well as in foreign lands.
APEC ARCHITECTS’ OPERATION MANUAL
- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
- “to sustain the growth and development of the
region for the common good of its people.”
PARTICIPATING ECONOMIES
- The APEC Architect Project has 15 participating
economies.
THE REGISTER
- divided into sections based on the participating
economies which are each hosted by the
participating economies.
CENTRAL COUNCIL
- comprises at least one representative of each
Monitoring Committee
DUTIES OF THE CENTRAL COUNCIL
- Maintenance of the APEC architect register
- Establishment of monitoring committee
- Oversight of the reciprocal recognition
framework
- Administration of the APEC architect project
MONITORING COMMITTEES
- Are the constituent bodies of the central council
SECRETARIAT
- To provide equitable system for sharing the
provision of admin services among economies
Filipino architects that are registered as an APEC
Architect.
ASEAN MUTUAL RECOGNITION ARRANGEMENT ON
ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES (MRA)
- Signed by the ASEAN Economic Ministers on 20
November 2007
RECOGNISING the objectives of ASEAN Framework
Agreement on Services (hereinafter referred to as
“AFAS”),
which are:
- to enhance cooperation in services amongst
ASEAN Member Countries
- to eliminate substantially restrictions
- to liberalise trade in services
ARTICLE I | OBJECTIVES
- to facilitate mobility of Architects;
- to exchange information
- to conform to the spirit of ASEAN co-operations
- to encourage, facilitate and establish mutual
recognition
ARTICLE II | DEFINITIONS AND SCOPES
- ACCREDITATION- quality assurance of Graduate
Architects by the respective national authorized
bodies.
- ARCHITECT- natural person who holds the
nationality of an ASEAN Member Country
- ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES- activities covered
under Central Product Classification “CPC” 8671
of the Provisional CPC of the United Nations
- ASSESSMENT- particular process for reporting or
comparison of achievement against criteria,
standards, or a benchmark.
ARTICLE II | DEFINITIONS AND SCOPES
- BENCHMARK- an agreed level by which others
can be measured
- CERTIFICATION- the issuance of a certificate or
license to those who have met specified
requirements for registration
- COUNTRY OF ORIGIN- the ASEAN Member
Country where the Architect has an existing
license to practice Architecture
- CRITERIA OR STANDARDS- a specification of
qualities required to be met
- GRADUATE ARCHITECT- a natural person who
holds the nationality of an ASEAN Member
Country and has satisfactorily completed an
architectural program
- HOST COUNTRY- the country where the ASEAN
Architect (AA) applies to work
- PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE- a specification of
qualities required to be met
- PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY AUTHORITY
(PRA)- the designated government body or its
authorized agency
ARTICLE III | RECOGNITION, QUALIFICATIONS AND
ELIGIBILITY
- completed an accredited architectural degree
- a current and valid professional registration or
licensing certificate to practice architecture
- complied with the Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) Policy of the country of
Origin
- complied with any other requirements agreed
upon by the ASEAN Architect Council (AAC)
ARTICLE IV | PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY AUTHORITY,
MONITORING COMMITTEE AND ASEAN ARCHITECT
COUNCIL
- ASEAN ARCHITECT COUNCIL (AAC)- shall be
established and shall have the authority to confer
and withdraw the title of ASEAN Architect (AA)
ARTICLE V | MUTUAL EXEMPTION
- The participating ASEAN Member Countries
recognize that any arrangement, which would
confer exemption from further assessment by
the Professional Regulatory Authority (PRA)
ARTICLE VI | AMENDMENTS
- Any ASEAN Member Country may request in
writing any amendment to all or any part of this
Arrangement.
ARTICLE VII | DISPUTE SETTLEMENTS
- Apply to disputes concerning the interpretation,
and/or application of any of the provisions under
this Arrangement.
ARTICLE VIII | FINAL PROVISIONS
- notify the ASEAN Secretary-General in writing at
least twelve months prior to the date of its
effective date of non-participation,
List of Filipino ASEAN Architects (According to
Registration No. as of December 2021)