Simon Berry

There are various pricing methods for architects, and while there are few guarantees regarding profit levels, there are some good practices to follow. In our latest article we look at how you can price your architecture services

I often host workshops with architects on practice management. One of the exercises I do is to ask the audience to calculate the cost rate of a fictitious architect, given a set of financial and timesheet data.So far (and hundreds of architects have made the attempt), no one has worked …

The UK construction industry enjoyed a recovery in 2021. And the great news is, this positive trajectory is expected to continue through 2022 and beyond:“With Government investment in transport and renewable energy driving the recovery and residential continuing to strengthen, analysts are expecting this positive outlook to continue through to …

There are 4 main types of employees in any professional service firmReallocating the nature of work between the different types can drastically improve profitabilityThe A TeamWe are going to be using the hot 80's TV show, The A Team, to illustrate our point: If you have a problem, if no …

When I was a teenager, I authored an Excel workbook that was used extensively to capture the quantity, species and location of wild animals being spotted from a helicopter - in order to plot, aggregate and extrapolate game populations for management purposes.

For years, I worked in the financial team of a large AEC firm. We had over twenty people running the accounting functions that kept the business ticking over. If I reflect on what actually made a difference at the end of the day, I believe there are really only three …

For years, I worked in the financial team of a large AEC firm. We had over twenty people running the accounting functions that kept the business ticking over. If I reflect on what actually made a difference at the end of the day, I believe there are really only three …