archivolt architects is a medium-sized architecture firm active in the area of new buildings, renovations and restorations. Using traditionally organised processes, the firm acts as chief contractor for integral development projects as well as in assignments that are tendered as Design & Build and Design, Build, Finance, Maintain & Operate. The firm’s home turf is the Netherlands, but since 2010 it has also undertaken projects abroad in which it has developed a great specialisation like buildings for penitentiary and psychiatry purposes. The firm works on all phases in building projects: initiating phase, design phase, implementation phase, follow-up phase and management phase. The core of our design method is to focus on achieving integral solutions by cooperating with additional disciplines. Since 2011, our standard is to work with an Building Information Model (BIM). Since log term we fully collaborate with our customer to achieve realistic and durable solutions and not simply pretty pictures. For us, sustainability means the total lifespan of a building; this is far more complex than simply taking a number of specific measures. We advocate a wide approach. In our projects it is the people who count as well as the end-users and customers who are involved in the preparation and implementation process, including our own staff. Personal involvement and accountability are inherent to a professional architects firm.
