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4 qualities of a learning, growing and thriving building firm

The firm you choose should be thriving with new information being constantly absorbed – this is what leads to innovative buildings. Like in any other part of life, novel and exciting projects keep everyone fresh, progress the industry and change the look of the world. These days, we have the magic of seeing hundreds of the newest things every time we walk down the oldest street. Your client wants the best, the newest and the most imaginative design. They want to be able to lead their friends and neighbours with shining examples, and not show them the same tired old designs that can be found in any one of their houses.

The thriving builder is:

• Intrigued by new materials and technology
• Eager to learn and to train others
• Ready to work on a variety of build types
• a firm that just keeps growing

New building technology

Building styles are evolving and growing, and they bring with them novel ways of working with intriguing materials. Your builder should feel as excited about them as you are. It’s vital that your builder doesn’t want to stay with what’s familiar and safe. They want to work with your ideas and won’t want to change them to fit their abilities. After all, isn’t it better if their abilities expand?

Every day is a learning experience

With all these fun new materials and this interesting technology finding its way into your design, your builder is going to want to make sure they are absolutely ready and able to handle them with the precision and expertise that you need. A builder should be naturally curious and want to go out to train and learn, and to come back and share all of this exciting new information with their peers.

Keeping things fresh

You don’t need to build something from the ground up to show off something new. You have designed state-of-the-art and unique builds for very different people in all sorts of buildings. An innovative, progressive builder should be exactly the same. They won’t be deterred by hearing the words ‘listed building’ or ‘eco-build’. Going into each situation knowing that they can deliver the quality expected by you and your client, in any situation or location, is a matter of professional pride.

The growing business

There is a sparkle of something wonderful that happens when you get to pass on your knowledge to someone who really wants to receive it. Every expert, professional builder was, at one time, a novice. It’s true, there must have been a natural ability – a spark of latent genius – but then there is training, hard work and, above all, talent which must be nurtured by the experts who were once there too. This is what makes the team thrive, and it is a marvellous thing to see this at work.

 What to expect from Mimar:

At Mimar, you will be able to discuss all materials and plans with your project manager, and he will make sure he knows how to work with all your ideas. He will ensure training is provided for each team member who will be working with something new. You will see established, expert builders carefully supervising new people. That’s how they will make sure that every one of your designs is fresh, new, and that their skills increase for when you bring the next, even newer design.

4 ways to keep the inconvenience of building work to a minimum

There’s no getting away from the fact that building is a noisy business. Hammers cannot be dampened, and drills can’t be silenced. On top of that, it is a dusty, dirty business. But your clients are meticulous and precise, and they expect the highest standard of living at all times. They have busy lives, and want to focus solely on the vision of their beautiful, crisp, clean home, and it’s important that they are sheltered from as much of the mess as possible.

A builder can keep the noise and mess to a minimum by:

• Providing a clear and realistic timetable
• Discussing the expected noise at the beginning
• Protecting the client’s property
• Having a sensitivity to those around the build

Timetables and deadlines

All projects have timetables, and usually accurate is better than quick. If your client is intending to vacate their property during the build, they need to be certain about when they can return home. If they are remaining on site, they need to know when they will have their home to themselves again. With a precise and careful client, accuracy is important.

Working around your client’s needs

Your client wants their build to be utter perfection. They also want to continue enjoying their lives while the build is carried out. It is important to be realistic about what is going to happen, but also to accommodate specific needs that they might have. Perhaps they need to access the building for a morning a week; your builder will make sure it is available for them. If they need one room in the house to be untouched, nobody will go near that room. If they are staying within the home, particularly noisy work will be carried out around their requirements.

Protecting your client possessions

Even an empty house may contain items that have a high value, either through historical importance, or monetary value, or simply because your client really loves them. They want them preserved and treated with the utmost care. When their furniture remains at the house, it needs to be carefully carried to a safe, clean area and covered. Ornate fixtures on walls, floors or stairs should be sensibly padded. In short, a client should expect their possessions to be treated as respectfully as they are themselves.

Keeping good neighbours

There is often a fair amount of disturbance to people in the surrounding areas of building work. Entrances to buildings or roads may be occasionally blocked while deliveries arrive. There are people coming and going, and often noisy tools ring out across the neighbourhood. Every good, professional builder will make sure that these disturbances are kept to an absolute minimum. People living in the peaceful, exclusive area around the build should be inconvenienced as little as possible.

What to expect from Mimar

Mimar treats every client, every site, every community and every build respectfully. They make every effort to manage the logistics of the build precisely, so that they can minimise intrusion in the neighbourhood of the build. They always ensure that any restrictions, such as entries, parking or noise are closely adhered to. Subcontractors coming onto the site are also held to the same rules, and are managed appropriately. Every aspect of your client’s life is treated with the utmost care.

5 ways to create a sensible, honest and integral communication plan

By communicating effectively with you, your builder brings a vital stability to your project. They should be careful, precise and honest, and should enjoy sharing what’s going on at the site. They are excited, and they want you to be excited too. Your client is investing a great deal of time and resources into their home, and they are certainly going to be curious too. While nobody needs to be intrusive to any party, it’s critical that you are fully informed about what’s going on with your project.

A professional builder’s communication methods:

• Daily communication to keep you engaged
• A weekly debrief to give more thorough details
• Sensible suggestions to improve the efficiency of the build
• Problems and solutions will be immediately discussed with you
• Site visits to show you everything you want to see

Daily communication

The conversations between you and your site foreman don’t need to be either long or intrusive for you to have the most recent information. You can be reassured that the build is progressing along its carefully considered timetable. Mostly, people will simply be getting on with what they have to do, but a quick conversation with your project manager will ensure that ideas and concepts can be exchanged freely. That way you can update your client whenever they ask.

A weekly debrief

At the end of every week, you’ll want to have a longer debrief with your site manager. They will have the opportunity to give you more detailed information about all the interesting things that are going on. You can hear about the jobs performed that week. You can check that your carefully considered design is emerging beautifully, and that everything you imagined is becoming a reality.

Suggestions and ideas

The builder will always defer to your vision – your vision is what they’re constructing, after all. However, they are also experts, and it might well be that they have an alternative solution or some new way of performing a task, and they will be enthusiastic about sharing these things with you. Your client wants the best, the most innovative and the most interesting build, and you’ll want to pass the newest information on to them.

The occasional, unforeseen event

Most things that happen on the site will be directly resolved by your project manager. If a delivery hasn’t arrived, or if the logistics of one job haven’t quite worked, these can be easily fixed. There needn’t be a constant list of concerns for you to worry about. There might be, however, more significant issues that may affect either cost or timetables, and, even while the project manager is arranging a solution, they will want you to know the implications.
Your builder should value honesty, trust and integrity.

Site visits

Watching a design become a reality is one of the most exciting parts of your project. Your builder gets to see it happening, and they will want to share it with you and your client. You won’t be pressured to come onto the site, but your builder will want to show off your beautiful design whenever you want to see it.

What to expect from Mimar

Mimar will make sure you have all the information as soon as you need it. They won’t nag or cajole, and they won’t interrupt your client, but they will make sure that you are fully informed about every aspect your project. They are interested to learn about what is happening in the industry, and they will share anything they learn that might interest you too. They will be completely honest about the whole process, and you will see their integrity at work the moment you engage with them.