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Checklists we use internally, published in full. If they help you brief a different architect or catch a problem in someone else's quote, that is a good outcome.

01

Residential design brief checklist

The eight questions that turn how a family lives into architecture — and the room-list questions that do not.

  • Walk through an ordinary Tuesday, hour by hour
  • Where people end up that they were not supposed to
  • Who needs to be alone, and when
  • How you host honestly, not aspirationally
  • What you disliked about every previous home
  • Who else will live here in ten years
Read the full guide

02

Construction proposal comparison framework

Four questions to ask every firm you are comparing, and the exclusions that make two quotes incomparable.

  • Request the exclusions list as its own document
  • Count the provisional sums
  • Check the specification against every BOQ line
  • Establish how variations will be priced
  • Compare payment schedules against physical progress
  • Identify who carries which risk
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03

Natural stone selection checklist

Porosity, hardness and finish — the three properties that should decide a stone, and the showroom test that misleads.

  • Run the water-drop absorption test on an unsealed sample
  • Confirm acid sensitivity for kitchen and bathroom use
  • See a full slab, never only a sample
  • Verify all material is from one block and batch
  • Ask for the water absorption figure, not a reassurance
  • Take an offcut home and spill on it for a week
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04

Design intent protection checklist

The four gaps where a design leaks between concept and completion, and the mechanism that closes each one.

  • Coordinate every discipline before construction information issues
  • Make substitution a formal, priced, approved event
  • Detail junctions in advance and build mock-ups
  • Verify finished work against the approved sample
  • Retain approved samples until handover
  • Record the verification, not just the intention
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01Why these are free

A checklist behind a form
is not a resource.

It is a lead magnet with a checklist attached. We would rather publish the whole thing and be genuinely useful to people who will never commission us, than collect email addresses from people who wanted one page.

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