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good comments. I would second the idea of having your own project manager.
It makes a huge difference to have your advocate who "speaks the language".


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Barbara Punt <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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> I agree with the many fine points raised by Eli, Eric, and Chuck.  In
> addition, I wrote a series of contracts for a client where the exhibit
> designer was a sub to the architect.  The museum is now open so I'll check
> back with them and see what wisdom they have to share about how the
> paradigm worked out and I'll post the results here.
>
> My own experience runs the gamut from being on-staff as the project
> manager for getting a museum open, on-staff as the exhibits operation
> manager, and out-of-house as the project manager and Owner's Rep.  I have
> yet to encounter a project where bringing the exhibit designers on early
> was a mistake or waste of money; their contribution to the ultimate layout
> of the building and type of exhibit infrastructure required is generally
> invaluable.  With regards to Eric's comment about the architect charging a
> premium on managing the exhibit design firm as their sub, and about how
> that money could be spent on others managing the designers, let me add one
> other point of view -- if you don't have the expertise in-house, or the
> work does not require a full-time staff person, it can be dramatically more
> cost effective to bring in a project manager as a consultant.  You may get
> someone with more expertise than is available locally, and because you
>  control the size of their scope, you can utilize their input efficiently
> so as to reduce overall costs.
>
>
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> >> On Jan 10, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Eli Kuslansky wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I firmly believe that as much of the development team in place from
> >>> inception is best. That includes not only the architect and exhibit
> >>> designer but if feasible media producers. Many architects have their
> own
> >>> agenda, style, varying knowledge of exhibit design and its
> requirements,
> >>> and less so of media and technology requirements. Barbara Punt from
> Punt
> >>> Consulting in LA would know a lot about this as she was an owner's rep
> and
> >>> project manager on many of these types of projects. The advantages of
> >>> having the two type of firm starting from the concept development phase
> >>> offsets any disadvantages.
> >>>
> >>> As a side note here is our post on this process model:
> http://bit.ly/1hDPppc
>
>
>
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