Sam, what does that $2/ft include? Design development?, construction docs? what does the client get for that?
I'm trying to wrap my head around that price - it seems so low.
Where I work in the SF Bay Area to go from design concept to permit drawings it's at least ten times that.
The Bay area is it's own little world. The stuff you have to go through is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous. While on the surface it would appear that you are making an astronomical fee the amount of work, meetings, reviews, etc. ad nauseum, just isn't worth it! I do a fair amount of things for California and there is always more and more the contracted plans examiners want. And now there are all of the growing wildfire construction requirements. Compare what you have to do Paul to most of the rest of the country and it is, literally night and day. I doubt I would be in this business if I had to work where you do!