Changes in street width

Homogenous street width

Cul-de-sacs

Grid road/block structure

Wider streets than normal with no street parking available

Meandering roads

Compactness

Inadequate solar radiation

Interrupted access to wind

Increased urbanity

Reduced public transportation need

Adding sprinklers to an existing theater building to reduce the required fire-rating of the partitions.

Adding a fire-wall between two different occupancies to create two different fire areas.

Paying attention to the fire-resistance rating of the furniture and interior finishes.

Leaving proper fire separation distance between two neighboring buildings.

Providing portable fire extinguishers when required by code.

The Principle of Comprehensive Analysis

The Principle of Abstract Thinking

The Principle of Bare Essentials

The Principle of Distinct Separation

Design walls and fences and secure entry points for all private buildings or building complexes to communicate boundaries.

Block the streets before the private communities to define the transition from public to private

Narrow down the streets where pedestrian access to buildings intensifies

Design a combination of bollards along with the strip of planting that separates the road from the pedestrian walkway and building entries

Mandate security surveillance systems for all residential projects

Design buildings with large fenestrations facing toward building entrances or other points of the congregation

Recommended excavation procedure

The bearing strength of the soil

The cut and fill scale

The characteristic and location of the bedrock

Bulking factor

Any site-cast concrete system

Heavy timber frame structure

Any masonry system

Steel frame with moment connections

Any precast concrete system

A first-time, all-cash buyer of an empty suburban lot, dedicated for residential use.

A developer investing in a property that has been used as a gas station before.

A buyer who is investing in a new property by partial contributions of a lender.

A real estate firm investing in a new property that was formerly a strip mall.

A landlord who wants to purchase the adjacent urban lot with an existing townhouse in it.

Setting up a reasonable efficiency ratio of net to the gross area.

Avoiding cost predictions during the programming phase of the project.

Basing other expenditures as percentages of building cost.

Calculating the cost escalation per square foot at mid-construction.

Bringing cost prediction as close as possible to the client's initial budget.