This week we will be talking about Fee Management, this a relatively extensive subject so I will breaking the episode into two parts. Today is Part 1 where I will be talking about what the fee means for the practice, how to calculate the fee and basing the fees on the RIBA Work stages. Next week, Part 2 will be covering how to negotiate the fee, getting paid, what to do in the event of non payment and working at risk - This episode content meets PC2 - Clients, Users and Delivery of Services and PC4 Practice and Management of the Part 3 Criteria.

Resources from today's episode:

Good Practice Guide: Fee Management
Good Practice Guide: Keeping Out Of Trouble
Good Practice Guide: Starting a Practice
Good Practice Guide: Painless Financial Management
Architects Handbook of Practice Management

Architects Guide to Fee Bidding:

https://www.perlego.com/book/1605673/architects-guide-to-fee-bidding-pdf?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&campaignid=15781033413&adgroupid=134828831467&gclid=CjwKCAjwpqCZBhAbEiwAa7pXeUvPUaqbEHL07QUjcS3_NaL7emh3w29Eycsgn7ZP5HFoRmB8k_QMwxoCMVIQAvD_BwE

Fees:

https://www.feesbureau.co.uk/

Here's the example I ran through in the episode:

Say your construction cost is £1m and there are 20 identical units that cost £40,000 each.

The basic fee is 6% of the cost of construction of which 15% is for Stage 4 lets say and 20% is for Stage 5 and it has been decided to rebate 75% of the fee for the identical units.

The calculation would be (20-1) x 40,000 / 1m x (6% x 1m x 35% x 75%) = 760,000 / 1m (60,000 x 35% x 75%) = 0.76 x 15,750 = £11, 970

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Episode 26 - Fee Management Part 1

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