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The Substack publication behind these notes: from frustration to function, written from live practice work.

Architects’ Digital Handbook

Practical tools and smarter systems for architectural project delivery

A simplified overview of Building Information Modelling: what it is, what it is not, and how to keep the process useful on live projects.

BIM explained simply

A practical introduction to BIM for architects and industry professionals

Professional obligations for document management and QA apply to practices of all sizes. Drawing issue registers remain a core record of what was issued, when, and to whom.

ARB, RIBA, and Building Safety Act duties for drawing issue registers. Why practices of every size still need a clear record of what was issued, when, and to whom.

Drawing issue register requirements

Legislative requirements for drawing issue registers

Legal and professional requirements for drawing issue registers

Where AI helps architectural practice, where it gets in the way, and why structured context matters more than generating endless options.

Where AI helps UK architectural practice, where it gets in the way, and why structured context from Approved Documents and your own files matters more than generating options.

AI in architectural practice

Looking at AI through the eyes of an architect

A practical perspective on AI in the current UK construction industry

How a SharePoint intranet can replace the folder hunt with a live hub for news, standards, apps, and practice resources.

Why architecture practices still hunt through folders on a tenant they already pay for, and how a SharePoint intranet becomes a live hub instead of a file dump.

SharePoint intranet for architecture practices

Your company intranet is hiding in SharePoint

Most practices are still stuck in the folder maze

Share&Log was built out of frustration with tracking which drawing was sent to whom, and turning that record into a reliable QA trail.

Simple file sharing for architects

File sharing, automated issue registers, and audit-ready QA

Clipboard history, PowerToys, snipping with text extraction, and a few other keyboard habits that save time at a Windows desk.

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