Team2 Architecture + Design

Would not recommend this architect to anyone. Complete rip off!! Hire this architect if you want to do every part of architecture work yourself like: - Design - Printing the plans - Going to city office - Understanding the review comments and getting the plans revised - Pay significant hidden fees - Pay separate fee for structural engineer We hired architect Shilpa from Team2 for Room And Bathroom addition. In the first meeting she seems very confident about her 25 years architect work. But the nightmare starts when we saw the first design draft. We have noticed that she missed on lots of details we have mentioned to her. And we have seen this pattern in her work in every phase. Right from basic measurements. That resulted in multiple (6-7) rounds of Planning review with city. The plans were amateurish. She never really gave us solution according Available space. This was not worth at all and we wasted 10 grand on this. Planning and building process: 1. We did confirm that she will come to the city office to handle permit process for us. But at the time of actual building review we had to go to the city and talk with city inspector to understand the comments. When we asked her to handle the review process in city office she demanded more money to come in person to the city office. So she clearly lied to us just to get this project. 2. Due to her pattern of missing on details there were mistakes in the planning drawing, That resulted in multiple rounds of reviews. But issue was we had to pay for the printing copy from our pockets. And this is all because of her measurement mistakes. 3. Even though the project can be done over the counter, she wanted us to do staff level review to elongate the process and make more money. 4. The city officials made comment about lack of coordination between architect and structural engineer (which was recommended by Shilpa). 5. She never went to the city once for the permit process. Architectural drawing produced: 1. She has no idea about how much a particular change would cost to build it. She gave us completely wrong estimate for our change. From the very beginning we asked her to design solution to minimize the construction cost, But she did not do it while working on structural plan 2. She has given us such complicated plan that every contractor we talk to quoting us double what we have expected. Some of them also commented on design is really complicated for such simple addition. 3. Because of her casual attitude towards our requirement we have to abandon our project.