Architect
Stantec · Charlottesville
As a major contributor on our professional Architecture team, you will work independently to assist clients through the planning and creation of fiscally responsible, award-winning designs. Your experience ensures that you are quite familiar with construction plans, specifications, estimates, client guidelines and building codes. You will be innovative and creative, working with prototype designs and/or developing unique concepts from sustainable products with green architecture sensibility as your goals. You will lead the development of integrated design proposals, continuous updating of a building information model, preparing a variety of output / drawings throughout the project, while leading and mentoring others and collaborating with team members to contribute to the final deliverables as required under instruction from the Project Leader.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for multiple projects of varied complexity.
- Engage in the development of design through sketches, modeling, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats.
- Utilize BIM technologies in development of project models and complete construction documents
- Independently performs a variety of assignments requiring skills in all conventional aspects of architectural designs for projects.
- Conduct thorough inspections of buildings and structures to ensure compliance with building codes and standards.
- Assess the existing condition of building components based on factors like age, functionality, appearance, and operating conditions.
- Participate in design critiques and pin-ups.
- Interpret and apply building codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies.
- Prepare and revise documentation in various architectural phases including site plans, floor plans, building elevations, building sections, details.
- Review shop drawings and submittals, respond to RFIs, prepare site observation reports, and other contract administration tasks.
- Lead project coordination and meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and sub-contractors.
- Assist in the preparation of the project specifications.
- Coordination of specifications with construction documents.
- Participate in constructability review.
- Conduct quality assurance and quality control on projects to include reviewing completed reports, plans, estimates, and calculations.