Job Description
Architects aren’t required by law on a project. A BR PD is.
So there’s no need for you to further question then why in this practice the salary, the respect and value for your time, are vastly improved if you take on a Building Regs Consultant job full time.
You do not need to be the finished product to get this job. Nobody is in this field yet.
Your career prospects are going to suddenly improve. Not just internally at an Architectural practice. A whole new world of building safety is opened up, where the pay, conditions and progression would be completely unattainable in traditional Architecture.
Without fee targets on your time you can concentrate on delivering a quality service internally and externally. You’ll influence and shape board level decisions regularly and be involved in every major project. Can you do that even as a Senior Architect or Associate?
There’ll never really be any reason to do more than your contracted hours. Not every organisation type has a ‘by the seat of your pants’ resourcing style or business model that relies on taking advantage of employees (that’s what lots of unpaid hours is).
You’ll still do DTMs (but from a different seat), you’ll still visit branches across the UK and get know at least 200 n...