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Something may also occur in the
building process that requires change. May-
be a design element needs to be corrected in
order to accommodate for an environmental
condition, or a particular view is so desirable
that a window placement needs to be recon-
sidered, what then? Smith says architectural
involvement allows one to take advantage of
those opportunities as they arise.
And collaboration isn’t simply a by-
product of doing business with Altius, it is
the very foundation on which the business
was built. Onmany Altius projects they pro-
vide full Construction Management services
to the client so that the team is not only col-
laborative but also fully integrated.
Smith, alongwithother colleagues that
include Principals Cathy Garrido and Trevor
McIvor were formerly enrolled together as
students in The School of Architecture at
the University of Waterloo. For years, they
respectively completed a curriculum of in-
class training complemented by on-the-job
internships that offered plenty volunteer op-
portunities during the recession of the early
nineties, but not so many paying jobs. All