Can Architects Actually Work a Four-Day Week?
Can a four day work week work at an architecture firm? The utilization math, what the 4 Day Week Global pilot found, which firms it fits, and how to run a pilot.
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Are You Charging Enough? A Fee Benchmarking Guide for Architects
No one publishes an architecture fees benchmark, so build one: bottom-up cost, industry multipliers, percentage-of-cost checks, and the signs you undercharge.
What Is a Good Utilization Rate for an Architecture Firm?
A good utilization rate for an architecture firm is roughly 60% to 65% firm-wide, with different targets by role. Deltek Clarity 2026 and PSMJ benchmarks.
How to Calculate Your Firm's Break-Even Multiplier
How to calculate the break-even multiplier for an architecture firm: overhead rate, a worked example, the profit markup, and the billing rates that follow.
What Are the KPIs Every Architecture Firm Should Track?
The architecture firm KPIs worth tracking, with Deltek Clarity and AIA benchmarks, and a review cadence for the monthly principals' meeting.
What Are the Professional Organizations Every Architect Should Know?
A working guide to the architecture professional organizations that matter: AIA, NCARB, CSI, NIBS, ICC, SMPS, and what a small firm should actually pay for.
Why Do Architecture Projects Always Run Over Budget? (And What the Data Says)
Why an architecture project goes over budget: optimistic SD hours, unpriced revisions, and CA that runs long. What AIA, Deltek, and PSMJ data shows, and the fixes.