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As an architect we want to ask something, If anyone feels that in order to control the construction cost of the building, you may increase or can decrease the quantity of standard building materials like; steel bars, cement concrete, bricks, sand mortar and cement etc. as per their wish or as per the advice of masons or contractors, either you yourself are over-intelligent or your advisor is over-intelligent.
My request to such sensible person is that please keep this in written document for future and for your family as it is not only issue of safety for you and your family life but also the matter of wasting your hard-earned money. Always remember that any written document can be a proof of your trust and security, word of mouth is not advisable when it comes to building construction. Because it is not a big deal to turn away from the responsibility of oral words, but it is not possible to turn away from written documents. Only written document can ensure the responsibility of the consultant.
Often everyone, knowingly or unknowingly, makes an oral agreement of their business while there is a high chance of deception, whereas put their family differences in writing where there is a strong foundation of trust. Due to which we often make a mistake in deciding between right and wrong and some outsider takes advantage of that situation.
People of the mid segment do not choose the architect, do not follow their advice, do not want to spend on the architect’s fees, but do dream of building a palace without the design and advice of the architect. Their dream is that their building should also be designed by an architect, but only in dreams, not in reality.
If an architect tries to help such people, then these people do not miss the opportunity to cheat. Do not pay architect’s fees, they say that we did not like anything, did not like the design. But they consider the same design as dream come true and proudly show it to the near about or known people. We are also building our building on the design of the architect.
These people trust more on the words of those mason or contractors, while at the time of any disaster, mason or contractors do not even take their responsibility, leaving people on their own. In that situation, those people remember that if we had taken the right decisions, this accident could have been avoided. People make the same mistakes constantly because they do not want to consult the right person nor follow the advice of the right person.
In such buildings, problems related to lack of quality in construction, electricity, water, slope on the floor, difference in floor level at appropriate location and moisture are often seen which involve constant physical, mental and financial expenditure. Which could have been stopped by taking service from an architect. Those who are more intelligent than necessary should see this cost and tell all those who have to suffer problems and losses because of their phenomenal knowledge and wrong advice. Those more intelligent persons, by advising to save the fees of an architect, has set an example so that no one else should have to suffer in future.
Mostly people of mid segment decide to construct building from labor or labor contractor to save money, who cannot read and understand drawings, cannot follow structural design drawings, yet they get construction done on the basis of same labor or labor contractor. Because those mid segment people trust in those labor or labor contractor not on architect or engineer. These mid segment people think that only labor or labor contractors are important. If someone face any problem in this type of building, then it should be his responsibility. Then why at the time of any disaster, justice is appealed to the news, government, politician or law.
Overall, the conclusion comes that if one wants to construct a building, then take the advice of a professional expert or take the advice of an architect. Everyone should follow this. If someone thinks that the architect’s fee is high, then definitely compare the building made without the architect’s design, then you will not find the architect’s fee much. You will come to know that the architect has saved more in the cost of building construction than the fee you have given to the architect. you will have a chance to be happy. And you will be able to hand over the building to your family as an inheritance.