David Erik Chase

Chase A+EP Celebrates 15-Year Business Anniversary

October 27, 2019 / David Erik Chase / Practice Management / No Comments

(West Palm Beach, FL) – David Erik Chase, AIA, President, Chase A+EP is pleased to announce that the firm has served on 100+ cases as an Architectural Arbitrator, Mediator, and Expert Witness since 2003. Mr. Chase’s long career includes having served as President and CEO of one of the largest Architectural firms in the USA. […]

Enrique Norten to Speak May 11 at DESIGN PALM BEACH

April 23, 2019 / David Erik Chase / Design & Construction / No Comments

(PALM BEACH, FL) – Bruce Retzch, AIA, Chair of DESIGN PALM BEACH, announces that World-famous Architect Enrique Norten, Hon. FAIA, designer of the currently under construction condominium building at 2000 South Ocean Blvd. in Hallandale Beach, will be an AIA Palm Beach Chapter guest lecturer Saturday, May 11, 2019, at the Hilton West Palm Beach, […]

Article Posted in Architecture Lab

January 21, 2019 / David Erik Chase / Practice Management / No Comments

For an in-depth look at “An Architect’s Guide to a Standard of Reasonable Care” which provides definitive ways in which architects can prepare and protect themselves against lawsuits, go to my Architecture Lab post by clicking: https://www.architecturelab.net/architects-guide-to-a-standard-of-reasonable-care/

Part 2 – Reasonable Standard of Care

August 16, 2018 / David Erik Chase / Practice Management / No Comments

Setting aside for a moment the art and science aspects of Architecture, with the entrepreneurial role and responsibility to its Clients, all Architects encounter both risks and rewards which are measurable. From my eighty (80) or so design and construction dispute case assignments, as Expert Witness, Mediator and /or Arbitrator, it has been my experience […]

Part I – Why are Architects “Targets of Opportunity?”

June 20, 2018 / David Erik Chase / Practice Management / No Comments

Date Line: 2630-2611 BC, IMHOTEP designs the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt. According to contemporary thinking, Imhotep was the first Architect to be known by name, in recorded history. He was the designer of the monumental step-pyramid building for the Egyptian pharaoh Djoser including perhaps, the first known use of stone columns to support […]

“International Style” in Palm Beach is Alive and Well

February 16, 2018 / David Erik Chase / Design & Construction / No Comments

The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach offered a public exhibit to highlight fifteen recent examples of “Contemporary Modern Architecture in Palm Beach”. The time period of these works ranged from approximately 1954 through to 2015. Although some residences have as of yet been constructed, this sampling of designs represented the characteristics of the International Style […]

BOMA 2017 Updates – “Standard Methods of Floor Measurement”

November 26, 2017 / David Erik Chase / Design & Construction / No Comments

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION Initially developed in 1915 with an “Office Measurement Standard”, the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) has continued over time to establish a uniform industry process model to measure spaces within a variety of building designs and tenant amenities. Architects, Interior Designers, Building Owners, Appraisers, Contractors, Brokers and many other professionals benefit […]