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2018-08-24 17:35:12
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So practically, I send my drawings with length, width, and height dimensions and request a shell construction without windows and without interior finish, with roof and covering and usable basement according to the Energy Saving Ordinance 2016?
But that only makes sense if you know that this drawing will also be approved.
Of course, additional costs will arise after the last planning and input from the structural engineer.
An architect can also be involved for the work after the shell construction.
The architect is, among other things, there to submit a building application. For the application, the structural engineering as well as the energy calculation of the house are needed. In this respect, your inquiries lack substance because you need to know with which brick and which insulation as well as which windows, i.e., U-value and so on (interaction), you have to build the house at all.
The construction companies hardly have time to provide you, as a complete layperson, with offers without a definitive plan. Such inquiries from you go straight into the circular file.
It is better to find 2 - 3 architects, choose one of them, and commission them to prepare plans and the building application. That would be a basis.
Even the calculation of setback areas is not something every layperson can do. A plot of land is also too valuable to not consider and weigh every potential as an architect could.
Basically, I consider it a bad idea for a layperson to presume to be able to read and compare these offers.