BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – E-PUBLICATIONS
Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards (a/k/a HDSHBS)
HOME DESIGN GUIDELINES - HOUSE CONSTRUCTION GUIDELINES
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Excerpts from interview in re the e-book, Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards by Before The Architect.
“’Quality by planning,’ is how an engineer and quality house builder mentor describes it,” said the Before The Architect spokesman. “Our Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards aims at owners who want a new house or major house remodel designed and built better and aims at custom house designers and custom house builders who want first-class house plans and better-built houses.”
This e-book is written in house plan style – clear and comprehensive – with hundreds and hundreds of specifications and stipulations. It addresses common house design and dream home building issues including house plan layout, jobsite conduct, and quality stick-built standards for materials, foundation, framing, wiring, plumbing, venting, HVAC, and finishing. New format, easier to follow outline, table of contents, table of figures, index, new user-friendlier format.
What makes this e-book different? “Well, for starters, please show me what you think is comparable. Truly, I think there’s nothing else like it available,” said the spokesman for Before The Architect. “It bridges professional disciplines of house design and dream home building for safety, durability, and convenience. It talks in applied, no-nonsense language to buyers, custom home designers, and custom house builders. To boot, it is packed with my pithy comments and happy-to-help asides supporting many of the entries – background based on nearly 4 decades of experience at the granite knees of both house design and dream home building. Taking the both of us, that’s going-on a century.”
He went on, “We use it every day in our work. I literally copy sections of the e-book right onto the drawing board, and adapt those selections to focus specifically on our work at hand. Our specs can run to 6 big sheets and more of definitive text on materials and methods; our consulting and designs reflect our standards. We can take a whole lot of wiggle-room out of custom house builders’ work. Otherwise, they’re out there designing when they should be building while buyers haven’t a clue about what, how, and why things are built the way they are. It’s tough enough to build well, without designing on the fly. It’s tough enough to earn the money to buy and own the new-build or bigtime remodel, so why practically give it away in blind hopes you get the design and dream home building that you think you ought to.”
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