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Salary vs billing rate comparison showing the gap between what a principal, project architect, designer, and drafter earn versus what clients pay for their time

Architecture Firm Finances: From Salary to Profit

 There is an architect at your firm making $50 an hour. But the client gets billed $150 for that same hour. Where does that $100 gap go? And what happens to your firm financially...

Workers installing a built up roof membrane on a low slop roof. mop, buckets and tar on the roof.

Roof Membrane Types: How to Choose for Any Building

 On a pitched roof, gravity does all the work. Flatten that roof out and the water has nowhere to go. The only thing standing between that pooling water and the inside of the building...

Four historic preservation approaches shown side by side from preservation to rehabilitation to restoration to reconstruction

Historic Preservation: From Rehabilitation to Reconstruction

 Historic preservation defines four distinct approaches to working on historic buildings, and most people confuse at least two of them. A design team once spent weeks building a restoration plan for a beautiful old...

Active Reading Strategies for Exam Prep

One of the biggest challenges of the architect exam isn’t the content. It’s all the reading. Active reading strategies can transform how you study, helping you retain more, read faster, and actually understand what you’re...