Shelter Design Status

For all of you who are wondering as to what has been going on with our plans on building our animal shelter, here's an update. I appologize for not keeping up this blog, but as I've seen no comments to any of the posts I made, I figured no one was viewing the blog. Recently a member, having read the blog, called me and wanted more information on what had been going on. So, I've decided to become active once more and will try to do at least posts every other week.

Today's status is that we've received another set of drawings from the architect, and some of the changes which they've made have not been approved. We will still need to have another discussion as to why they made these changes before we accept the drawings as final. There still remains the issue of who is providing the HVAC design, the excavation and fill plan, and how we submit the electrical and plumbing drawings (which the architect did not do) through this architectural firm since they say they won't stamp the drawings with their licensed stamp. This leaves us in a peculiar position since I believe the electrical, plumbing and HVAC drawings are the primary drawings the state wants to review before giving state approval.

So, the saga of getting a complete and final set of drawings along with a project manual to submit to the state is still in a quagmire. I have solicited the help of a local licensed plumber and electrician to go over our designs and hope to get their approvals, but am still in limbo as to what the architectural firm we hired will do with these drawings when submitting them to the state. And, the HVAC design and site excavation, fill and grading appear to be a black hole as far as the architect is concerned - at least at this point.