Architects / Civil Engineer Service, Execution Plan, Scope

What do you think kind of detailed drawings there are?

So we are building with an architect for service phases 1-9. Our structural engineer took care of the statics and energy saving ordinance. The architect, together with the structural engineer, created the execution plans. If you know craftsmen, you can still award the contracts through the architect, unless you want to award them off the books. Our neighbor did exactly what you are planning and now he has to deal with every mess from the trades, which he actually already knew well. He is on the construction site every day, has to check, inspect, and coordinate everything alone, you must not underestimate that, and so many things went wrong for him, like the cistern installed without a proper slope angle, so now the water doesn’t flow into the cistern at all. I wouldn’t recommend it to you without construction supervision. As mentioned above, we are building with our architect and so far we have zero stress, we are on the construction site about once a week and it’s going well. For that, the architect is on site daily and sends us pictures. Definitely “book” up to service phase 9 because of the extended warranty.

That is the nicest but most expensive solution. It would have cost us 50,000 more back then and fortunately we decided against it. But it does cause more stress.

Detail drawings are only needed if the trades find something unclear or if you deviate from the standard.

That is the nicest but most expensive solution. It would have cost us 50,000 more back then and thankfully we decided against it. But it does bring more stress.

It is not the cheapest option, that is true, but doing it entirely without an expert (who also costs money) is very daring. The architect services don’t cost us 50,000€.

House from a single source, modified catalog house, which BU has already built 10 times -> you can save yourself an architectural plan, the architectural plan for the structural framework is already available somewhere and just needs to be slightly adjusted.

Custom-designed house, not standard, many trades from different companies -> without an architectural plan, problems are programmed here and an architectural plan in the structural framework is definitely needed, or should the formwork and reinforcement be thrown in by gut feeling?