Reasons for Rand Soellner to Design Your Home
1. BEAUTIFUL AESTHETICS by the World’s best home architects
Your new home can have features like this!
Rand Soellner home architects houses are gorgeous!
Spectacular mountain home design features.
Rugged boulders, native rockwork, huge ancient beams.
Gigantic doors that retract out of the way, maximizing your amazing views! As home architects, we want you to enjoy your unique vistas.
2. FUNCTIONAL, LOGICAL, CONVENIENT, VIEW-ORIENTED FLOOR PLANS by gifted home architects
- We are custom home architects designing your luxury home around your lifestyle and your fabulous views, like this Mountain Retreat home design of ours, now under construction in Sevier County, TN, USA.
- Room/space orientations that place as many rooms as possible looking at your best site views!
- Functional room arrangements that give you convenience
- - Garages next to kitchens
- – Master Suites separate for acoustical and visual privacy
- – View Dining looking at your great views!
- – Kitchens with views, adjacent to dining spaces
- – Outdoor covered living areas right on your fantastic mountain views!
3. HOME VALUE ENGINEERING with custom home architectural features
We evaluate projects to indicate economical ways to build your project.
-We are one of the best Home Value Engineering architects on the planet.
- Base Bid Pricing Strategy (BBPS) (an exclusive from Rand Soellner home architects). We design your project using what we feel are the most economical systems and materials (that are still durable) for your BBPS, insuring that you recieve the very best possible pricing for your project. As home architects, we want to help you obtain the best value.
- Lowest possible bids from qualified licensed general contractors due to BBPS (above).
- You determine the ultimate cost of your home based on Your choices. You are in charge!
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4. Green Home Architects Designing Green Homes for You. Recycling & Energy Efficiency is our Middle Name.
Home architects Rand Soellner = one of the leading green home architects on the planet and one of the leading home architects. Just look on Google or Yahoo or any other search engine. Out of over 50 million listings in this category, we are on page 1. We write articles on Green Home Architects, Green Design, Green Home Design, Green Design Homes, Energy Efficient Home Architects, Energy Efficient Home Architecture, Energy Conservation Architects and Energy Conservation Home Architecture and also describe tips for “Going Green 4 Less,” and have Green Home Architects Checklists for design and construction. Rand Soellner, AIA was the design architect engaged by a major university to select the new site for the New Florida Solar Energy Center and also conceptually designed it, including a full color rendering of the proposed complex in Cocoa, Florida. Many of the techniques that Rand Soellner home architects uses to insure that your house sips energy and is a healthy place in which to live are not so glamourous and are the result of decades of trial and error work as practicing home architects. Rand Soellner has regular articles published on the World Wide Web and is recognized in the industry as a leading green home architect. Having him as home architects designing your custom residential project is good for you and good for your community and the World, helping make this a greener planet.
5. Energy Star Partner, Qualified by the US DOE/EPA one of few leading home design architects certified
Rand Soellner is one of the rare few luxury home architects in the World that qualify to be Energy Star Partner Architects. Check around. You’ll probably not find many, if any others. The reason: first, we are very good at what we do, having been involved in cutting-edge energy efficiency designs since the 1970s, including being the architect that performed the Site Search Anaylsis, Site Selection, Programming, Master Planning, Site Planning and Concept Design for the New Florida Solar Energy Center. Second, we still design commercial projects, which the DOE/EPA requires to be an Energy Star Partner. We author multiple articles on Green Architecture and continue to be leaders in energy efficient architecture and energy conservation architecture. We have unique specifications allowing you, as the homeowner, to decide which Owner Optional Upgrades are right for you and your budget. What does this mean for you? Lower monthly energy bills, a healthier home and pride in knowing that you are using an professional that designs and manages his projects and yours in a manner that lowers the carbon footprint of your house on the Planet and uses less resources while providing a superior lifestyle experience in your dream house. We are green home architects creating energy efficient home design.
6. Licensed Professional, Degreed, Registered, National Architectural Certification AIA, NCARB
Hire a registered, licensed professional REAL architect to design your home. It is Your Home, don't you want the most qualified professional possible creating the place where you and your loved ones live?
Rand Soellner, AIA/NCARB is a licensed architect, registered in several states in the USA and he has chosen to focus much of his practice to be home architects. There is a big difference between his experience and services than those of a mere home designer. Want to know more about the differences and why should hire a licensed architect? Click Here on these words to see.
Rand Soellner also is a member of the AIA (American Institute of Architects-1st a member in 1982) and also has an NCARB certification (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards). Mr. Soellner has had his NCARB certfication since 1990. Only the cream of the crop of architects attain this certification. It requires other experienced architects to be knowledgable of your experience and attitudes and professionalism and for them to vouch for you, along with satisfied clients. It takes about 10 years of perfect practice in an outstanding manner. Rand Soellner now becomes licensed in just about any state throughout the USA through reciprocity because of his NCARB standing. Rand recently obtained his licensure in a seismic state (Washington) and can become licensed just about anywhere in a matter of a few weeks due to his NCARB certification. Rand Soellner: home architects.
7. Passion, Heart & Soul, Design Quality, Enthusiasm & Positive Attitude by home architects
We get a kick out of being custom home architects and designing your next house design!
We enjoy what we do! It is fun for us! We love what we do and is shows in our work. As home architects, We will do everything we can possibly think of to help you accomplish your goals. Our clients have called us to tell us how much they love their homes after they move in. They say that there is an indefinable quality that gives them peace and serenity from their workaday world elsewhere; that upon arriving at the house we designed for them, that they decompress, delight in the views we have captured for them, appreciate the warmth and texture of the architecture embracing them and find themselves AT HOME. Some call this Design Quality and attribute mystical qualities to it. It is the overall connection of you, your lifestyle and your site, perfectly connected in Your Home. Some call it Heart & Soul. Whatever you may wish to call it, there is no denying that IT is in all of our projects…you start to feel a sense of anticipation as you approach your new house, perhaps when even a state away and your eagerness grows as you get closer. Until, finally you Are Home. Enjoy! We really enjoy being home architects.
8. We Want Your Business & Your Project
We humbly hereby ask for your business. We want to be your home architects and commercial architects of themed resorts. We would love to design your house/project and will assure you of our appreciation in our positive attitude throughout your job. Thank you for your interest in us as home architects.
9. Responsiveness with a Capital “R”
We answer our own phone. Rand sits here working on projects like yours nearly every day of the year, so you can reach him. He also has a cell phone and we give you that number as well. We are reachable. On the extremely rare occasions when you cannot reach us at our home-office phone or cell, we will return your call usually in a matter of minutes. Have you every been frustrated because someone you have hired to do something important for you won’t answer e-mails or phone calls? Not us! We realize that you deserve to have prompt attention and have any questions or concerns addressed immediately. We take our position of trust seriously and hereby pledge to you that We Will Be Available To You. We normally are reachable by phone about 18 hours out of every day (no kidding!) and 24/7 with e-mails. We never allow e-mails for phone messages to stack up; we check them frequently, although we don’t get many voicemail messages because we typically answer the phone in person! We take the above for granted, but have discovered that many of our clients have expressed to us how refreshing it is to have someone as responsive as us to take care of their projects; it is not what they have been used to with Brand X. We take this “reachability” issue very seriously; you are guaranteed access to us as clients. As home architects, we want you happy and we realize that part of that is being able to talk with us whenever you need to do so.
10. Low Project Volume – We Create Custom Home Designs
We don’t handle thousands or hundreds or even dozens of projects each year like some pre-designed “plans-mill” firms. We are nearly exclusively custom. What does this mean for you and your project? You are treated with the special courtesies and our devoted focus on your project. We are not scattering our efforts across hundreds of projects. You are receiving the attentions of our top licensed architect, Rand Soellner AIA/NCARB himself, designing your project. We don’t just dream up “plans” for no particular client, then try to sell them to you. Rather, we design our projects around your unique lifestyle and your site. We are home architects, which means that we are architects that design homes. If you really want to purchase an existing project design, we can accommodate you, knowing that it was conceived for real clients with real needs, which means these designs have substance and attention to detail to satisfy the desires of real people. And creating custom home designs for real people makes all the difference in the World, and you need a custom home architect with a low yearly project volume to be able to do that, so your needs don’t get lost in the shuffle. You are paying for and you get our undivided attention, solving your residential design.
11. Computerized Project Documents: Drawings & Specifications & Contractor Proposal Bid Forms by custom home architects
We have been doing this for so long this way (by computer) we were recently amazed to learn that there are still other individuals and companies still stubbornly drawing by hand, reproducing the same old things in the same old way, and at greater expense to you, because that takes longer, and is highly inaccurate, which can cause big problems for you and your builder during construction. We draw our house plans and residential designs and commercial and themed projects on AutoCad, the most widely accepted CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) design software in the World. Why? Because our commercial and governmental contracts (such as on airports and high schools and the like) required us to produce our work on this software if we wanted to do business with the various entities. We have become very good at it. What’s the big deal? Why is this important? Because computer drawings exactly locate the lines and other objects on the computer drawing with great precision and even partially automate the dimensioning of the position of these lines and objects with respect to each other, in 3 dimensions (in the X, Y and Z coordinates), which is how builders understand where to position your walls, floors, beams, trusses, windows, doors and other elements. Having this preciseness allows your builder to swiftly build your project. Not having this (such as with many hand-drawn documents) can create errors of dimensions or an outright lack of dimensions that makes your buidler stop the job repeatedly to scratch his head and try to figure out where in space to locate the walls, beams and other components of your project. We have also heard of house design hand-drawing firms redrawing their same old designs and charging you for this laborious method. We copy and paste our pre-existing data on computer and save you the expense. Also, our master specifications are on computer, right on drawings, so they are on every jobsite and you reap the benefits of having the most up-to-date specs on your project, edited for your job. Easy on computer; very hard by hand. Also, computer drawings are about 2 to 3 times clearer than hand-drawn drawings. We precisely control each line weight and color with our computer settings and we print out our drawings on white bond paper in waterproof ink. Contractors love our documents in the field; they report to us never before having such clear, precise house design drawings. Bottom line: saves your builder time and you money in the field due to more accurate designs and documents that are easier to understand and read. Our home architects produce quality house plans for you, as well as commercial projects.
We also now include the Contractor Bid Proposal Forms in our Division 1 Administrative Specifications. Why? So that all builders pricing your project are being compared apples to apples. We have no wiggle room for misunderstandings and specifically indicate how the builders are to price your project and what is and what is not included and what items are Owner Optional Upgrades and which are in the Base Bid Price. We have never seen this level of bid proposal management built into house design documents by any other firm. What does this mean for you? Clear, clean level-field bid pricing by your interest contractors to insure that you receive price proposals that include what your documents (that you have approved) say they are to include, and allow you to compare your various contractor price proposals against uniform standards, knowing that they are all bidding on the same things and not taking any liberties. Our experience on large, complex commercial and governmental projects has given us the experience to be able to accomplish this for you on your house design projects and is one more reason you may wish to select Rand Soellner home architects to design and manage your luxury home project and be your home architects. We are luxury residential architects creating custom house designs for people just like you. Come and visit us and examples of our documents; you will understand why you will want us to create your residential design and be your custom residential architects.
