Other Participants

Your architect will help you find and brief any other consultants you may need - a structural engineer or a quantity surveyor, for example. 

With planning approval in place your architect will prepare working drawings with technical specifications for builders to tender, and will ask a number of firms to estimate costs and timings. 

When you have chosen a builder, your architect can recommend a form of contract that will set out the terms , the timetable and what will happen if the builder overruns on costs or time.