Archimedia's main focus is on the development of close 'out sourcing' collaborations with numberous design and construction organisations both local and national.

 

But what is 'out sourcing' and how does it work?:

• Archimedia provide a task team service to other design organisations, either to supplement a larger architectural organisation's resource or as a temporary 'virtual office' to smaller practices

• Archimedia support engineering practices with an architectural team service to compliment their process led approach

• Archimedia provide procurement organisations with a value and programme sensitive service for design, detailing and specifications

 

What benefits does the Project Team Out Sourcing approach have?:

• It allows the application of required skills at the time you need them

• It allows you to continue to provide a service to your client without sacrificing quality through time constraint

• It allows you to utilise our expertise gained in solving similar problems for similar clients

• It eases the challenge of resource fluctuations required for cyclical or seasonal fluctuations

• It offers you a high-value alternative to the convention of hiring contract staff

• It avoids much of the turbulance often associated with setting up new project teams, such as the prolonged (and occasionally difficult) pre-design stages, finding temporary space for new workstations, the cost of purchasing new software/hardware and provising administrative support/managerial overview for additional technical staff

 

Archimedia offer a 'Community of Practice' approach to deliver a Co-ordinated Project Information approach to Drawings, Specifications and Scheduling. Archimedia makes extensive use of collaborative technologies to communicate, co-ordinate and control internal and external information interactions with all members of the project team. This relationship has many benefits:

• It creates closer links through fast, mutual inter-communication,

• It creates closer long-term collaborations with customers and project team partners

• It allows for accessibility which is both secure and updateable for all team members through Project-based extranets

• It creates usable and auditable data structures through the use of data management software

• It develops flexible BIM (Building Information Modelling) strategies to allow reliable integration with potential collaborators

• It allows for the incorporation of current reference information from national construction services such as CIS and knowledge tools such as NBS Building.