2023 RAIC Awards: Carol Bélanger
Winner of a 2023 RAIC Advocate for Architecture Award
In the past decade, Edmonton has become a hotbed of contemporary Canadian architecture. At…
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Opinion: A city architect would improve Ottawa’s vision
Residents of Ottawa deserve better places. Better buildings for social events, learning and forging community. Places that are accessible, welcoming…
How does your firm measure up?
In a compact new book, former Smith Carter Principal and C.O.O. Rick Linley describes a simple method for understanding the financials of any architecture…
SSHRC grants $2.5M to a partnership on Quality in the Built Environment
A major research partnership on quality in the built environment is bringing together 14 universities, 70 researchers and 68 public and private organizations at…
Practice: When Experience Counts
For architects responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), one of the most consistent head-scratchers is detailing a firm’s portfolio: not on independent…
Working with Indigenous Architects and Indigenous Procurement Requirements
TEXT Elsa Lam with Kelly Edzerza-Bapty, Dr. David Fortin, Tiffany Shaw, Dr. Patrick Stewart, and Alfred Waugh
In the past few years, there has been an…
Practice: Procuring Change
When emerging architecture firms begin to scale up to larger projects, it often means plunging into the world of publicly posted Requests for Proposals…
Letter to the Editor: Contract Fairness
The basis of a contract is that there is a fair exchange. Usually this is money for a service or product. When you order a coffee at your local coffee shop,…
How to decipher (and protect yourself from) the tricky wording of RFPs
Earlier this summer, the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) launched a Practice Tip to help architects decipher the language of RFPs and client-architect…
RAIC Journal: Fighting back—Defending quality in public sector buildings
Findings from the Charbonneau Commission were underlined, namely that with lowest-price contracting there
is a risk of collusion, undue pressure on bidders’…
AAPPQ + AFG celebrate progress in Quebec’s procurement debate
The Association des Architectes en pratique privée du Québec (AAPPQ) and the Association des firmes de génie-conseil – Québec (AFG) applaud the recent decision…
AAPPQ protests Quebec’s “lowest bidder” procurement process
The Association des Architectes en pratique privée du Québec (AAPPQ), Quebec's association of private practice architects, and the Association des firmes de…
Why Canada Needs a Public Architecture Policy
Canada would benefit from implementing quality-based guidelines for commissioning architects and building architecture.
Editorial: Getting Along Better
The Canadian construction industry is abuzz about a new form of procurement—Integrated Project Delivery—that is based on increased cooperation.
Race to the Top
At a time when many firms compete on low fees, what are the best practices for setting healthier fee expectations?
Editorial: Sign on the Dotted Line
Architects in practices of all sizes are being pressured to sign agreements containing multiple pages of supplementary conditions, many of which depart from…