Construction Consultant / Architect: Payment by Construction Company?

Yes.

The admin deliberately set it up this way because at the beginning of the forum posts were often "edited" out of context.

Rhenish greetings

I thought so. However, I would have liked to correct ambiguous formulations – such as the "double negation" :-).

Thank you very much in any case for your competent and highly helpful explanations. I wish I had started reading this board years ago. Although I am used to filtering large amounts of information well, it is incredible what a flood of information hits a prospective builder when you want to get into the subject. On this board, it seems to me at first glance that there is a very high quality density of information, which I will surely rely on intensively in the future. In short: many thanks to everyone involved who invest a lot of their free time and energy here (mostly without immediate return).

Sunny greetings Ferique