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Advice handed to me by my architect, Chari Charalambous.

Find a registered architect and discuss your requirements/outline design.

Find and the land (see our page on buying land).

Preliminary design and outline.

Once the outline’s been agreed, your architect will submit plan, elevation and sectional drawing to the Planning Authority (a planning application). The Planning Authority will grant Planning Permission.

While the architect is waiting for Planning Permission, the architect will produce a detailed design and a construction/structural engineer will do the structural design. (the architect is in charge of design and the construction engineer makes sure that the design is structurally sound).

Once Planning Permission has been granted, and any changes they require have been incorporated into the design, and you’ve agreed the detailed drawings, the architect will get a quantity surveyor to produce a Bills of Quantities listing all the materials and quantities thereof to build the property.

The architect will now issue an ‘Invitation to Tender’ to a number of registered and licenced building contractors and at the same time, he willl also apply for a Building Permit.

When the Tenders are received, you then analyse them and create a short list.

Inspect the work of the short listed contractors, speak to people at reference sites about the builders – and decide which one to use.

Negotiate the price, negotiate the contract, start building work when the Building Approval has been issued.

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