Planning and Building Regulations on the same job, without two systems

What makes technologist work different

• A dozen live jobs, each at a different point of two separate consents.
• Building Regulations work that starts after the fee was agreed.
• Clients who ring rather than email, and expect you to remember.
• Small fees, so an hour lost is a real percentage of the job.

How a technologist job runs through TILE

1. 1Enquiry. Logged with the address and what the client actually wants.
2. 2Fee. A proposal built from your own previous work on the same type of job.
3. 3Survey and design. Stages with checklists, so nothing is assumed to be done.
4. 4Planning. Application tracked, with constraints checked from a postcode.
5. 5Building Regulations. A parallel track on the same job, covering full plans, building notices and discharge of conditions.
6. 6Client communication. Correspondence filed against the job rather than in a personal inbox.
7. 7Delivery. Documents issued and recorded, with time logged against the stage.

Two consents, one job record

Planning and Building Regulations run in parallel rather than as two lists. The job knows which stage each is at, which is the difference between chasing and knowing.

Built by a technologist, not adapted for one

Anthony Boyce, Architectural Technologist and practice owner, built TILE after twenty years of doing this work. The terminology is right because the person who specified it uses it.

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