PROFESSIONAL MANDATE

To provide quality architectural services to ensure that the contribution of architects is respected and successfully transformed into buildings that improve the human condition.

PROFESSIONAL GOALS

To create buildings that are responsive, responsible, and defensible. Toward that end, buildings must be competently planned, functionally adequate, appropriate in form, cost-effective, constructable, adaptable, durable, and contextual.
To provide service that consistently meets or exceeds our client’s expectations.
To provide thorough project planning to ensure that all services are delivered on time, accurately and within budget.
To maintain professional development of all staff members.
To provide a work environment that fosters excellence.

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

As leader of a team of professionals, we must behave ethically and professionally and lead by example. Relationships with team members and clients are best built on sound ethical and professional principals. We are guided by the principals of professionalism of the International Union of Architects, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Architects Institute of America, which include the following:

The public is our ultimate client. Our actions will hold their safety, health and welfare in the highest regard.
We will always act in the best interest of our clients.
We will behave in a way that honours the dignity of all professional designers.
We will provide services within the scope of our abilities and competence.
We will never be involved in fraudulent or deceitful practices.
We will act as faithful, honest and trustworthy agents of our firm and our clients.
We will never accept commissions, perks or favours from parties that have dealings with mutual clients.

CLIENT CONFIDENTIALITY

As a professional, we are first and foremost a client advocate: advising, serving, protecting. We take your privacy and the privacy of those you serve seriously. We enter into a privacy agreement (with all staff and consultants signatory) as a normal course of our Client/Architect Agreement. Your trust and confidence in us is of utmost importance to our team.