-: My name is Leland Greenfield.
I'm a registered architect and I'm an associate at
CallisonRTKL's automotive design studio.
Typical project is anything between
an automotive service center, showroom,
could be an automotive retail space,
or something sort of new that people may not have seen yet.
Basically, the life cycle of the project
is it would start at, you know, site survey,
due diligence, schematic design, design development,
construction documents through construction administration,
and where you ultimately have a finished building.
On the one hand, we are where we are
the architect of record,
where we're actually gonna go through
the full process including construction documents
and basically taking that project
from design through construction.
That's a little bit different
because there's gonna be a lot more that goes into it
up front from like, the code perspective
and the research perspective.
On the design side, we do work where
we're the design architect and obviously that,
you do have to take this similar level of care
to make sure that what you're putting on paper
is something that can be built,
but just the level of detail doesn't need to be there
because it's design-based.
So, it's making sure that
everything the client wants to be there is there
or really, in that case,
that the brand requires to be there is there
and then we sort of hand it off from there.
A busy week for me would be one
that involves a lot of travel,
where I may need to be in, I'm based in New York,
but I may need to be on the west coast,
I may need to be in multiple cities and so,
a busy week is one where there's a team of people
in New York doing some production stuff
or maybe they're traveling with me
or they're traveling to another place
and basically, being in multiple places
and still making sure that everything that we need to do
and deliver at the end of the week
or the end of the day is done.