-: My name is Edward Kodet.
I'm an architect.
I have my own office in Minneapolis,
Kodet Architectural Group.
Our office really does in many ways a huge variety
of projects.
We have most of our projects are schools, K12 schools,
some higher education work.
The next category that we do a lotta work in
are churches.
For instance, the church across the street,
Central Lutheran, we're doing the addition there.
And then we do a fair amount of public work for cities.
We do libraries, maintenance buildings, and city halls,
fire stations, parks, things like that.
Once they determine that they need to remodel
or build new facilities, they'll issue what's called
a request for proposal, what's known as an RFP.
And then once we're selected then we start meeting
with staff, we meet with administration, and we meet
with school district.
And then also we take a typically meet with the city
that's involved.
We look at what the land is gonna involve.
We establish a program.
And a program is basically an outline of the spaces
that the school needs to meet their needs.
Some cases it may be three or four programs
if they wanna do an addition, they wanna do remodeling,
or if they wanna do a new building all in part of
what might be a bond issue if the school district
is bonding for funds to build the schools.
Our profession is one where one needs a fair amount
of experience.
And we have a process within the architectural profession
of getting students aligned with all the basic parts
of being an architect.
From doing illustrations to doing
construction administration to doing contracts.
And they start on a process called AXP
which is going through a number of hours
that they need to spend before they can sit
for architectural registration.
One case is doing illustration, it's the other case
of doing red lines.
You know software called Revit.
Other cases it may be preparing boards for presentations,
to help with marketing.
Surprisingly our profession involves a whole lot of
community engagement.
And so they may go to a community meeting
and put together questionnaires to discern
what the public thinking is about the new school,
the design and all aspects of it.
So there's a lotta energy that goes into
what someone does in terms of starting day one
all the way through their career actually.
But starting out from school they're gonna be very busy.