April 2013
| Business World Magazine | 109
always needed, but often under-used in to-
day’s standards – collaboration. “When we
design a building, the drawing is a small por-
tion of what is required to bring that build-
ing into being,” says Smith. “Unfortunately,
some architects simply hand off hundreds of
pages of specifications to a builder, and are
done. If you don’t engage in the site, don’t
engage in the process of building, fromarchi-
tectural point of view, you lose the vision of
what the building is supposed to be. There’s
a saying that fifty percent of the design is on
paper and fifty percent is in head of archi-
tect. If the tradesman, construction manager
or client cannot access the architect, they’re
losing half the benefit.”
Graham Smith
