Quality Review Articles for Architects and Designers

Helpful Online Resources for Architects

Whether you’re a veteran architect or a rising star, the internet has thousands of blogs, articles, videos, and podcasts for improving your skills and raising your reputation. But with so much information available, you can end up spending more time choosing a resource than learning from it. That’s why we’ve put together this curated list of the most valuable online resources to help you ma (more...)

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Quality Review Articles for Architects and Designers

Why is QCP Important for Architects?

The construction job site is a complex environment in which many stakeholders manage their own responsibilities. Since it’s difficult for the architect to monitor all aspects at once, it’s important to enforce quality assurance so that all work meets the necessary standards. In terms of architectural woodworking and millwork, this quality assurance is best achieved through the Architectural Wo (more...)

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How to Minimize Risk and Liability in Architectural Woodwork

Even the smallest architectural woodworking project can take significant time and money to execute. While it can be tempting to cut corners in specified materials or compliance, any defects found in the final product can be grounds for litigation. As well as being difficult and time-consuming, this outcome all but guarantees immense frustration and dissatisfaction from those involved. Since legal (more...)

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3 Reasons Why Architects Need Woodworking Standards

The International Organization for Standardization defines a standard as: “a document that provides requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose”. To elaborate on this, the National Institute of Standards and Technology argues that standards also serve to: Prov (more...)

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How to Ensure Clear Communication in Construction Projects

Achieving good communication on the job site of a construction project is no easy task. With architects, general contractors, woodworkers, suppliers, and owners focusing on different aspects, it’s easy for carelessly delivered messages to be misinterpreted or lost. This can lead to significant delays, mistrust, excessive expenditure, and dissatisfaction on behalf of the client. What causes poor (more...)

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What Licensing & Certification Mean in QCP’s Quality Assurance Process

At AWI’s Quality Certification Program (QCP), we have two basic components to our quality assurance process.  One is woodworking firm licensing, and one is woodworking project certification. These components are separate but very closely related. In a nutshell, woodworking firms must have a QCP license to certify projects. Holding a QCP license doesn’t automatically mean that every woodworki (more...)

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Rest Assured: Uphold Your QCP Specification

This Quality Review regular feature presents woodwork-related technical topics of common interest and importance to the design community, general contractors, and the architectural woodwork industry.

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