{"id":4060,"date":"2014-04-01T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukgcucco0.web01.sundaramdesign.com\/2014\/?p=452"},"modified":"2014-04-01T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:43:27","slug":"diving-headfirst-architecture-coworking-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/diving-headfirst-architecture-coworking-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving Headfirst &#8211; Architecture for Coworking Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukgcucco0.web01.sundaramdesign.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/divingheadfirst.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-457 alignleft\" alt=\"divingheadfirst\" src=\"http:\/\/ukgcucco0.web01.sundaramdesign.com\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/divingheadfirst-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Partitions, square footage costs, accessibility, fixtures, path of egress&#8230;Welcome to the morass that is architecture and construction. If you don&#8217;t have a serious understanding or experience with being in the trenches of building out a space, be prepared to be in a world of hurt. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t coworking all about community?&#8221; you ask. You got it, but&#8230;that physical space you want to call an office will need to be built, renovated, and\/or occupied. Let no one fool you into thinking that their renovation and move-in process was a walk in the park. I would bet that every single coworking space owner fell flat on their face during this necessary evil of a stage of their launch. I know this because I did, too.<\/p>\n<p>Licensed in architecture? check.<\/p>\n<p>Experienced in construction management? check.<\/p>\n<p>Degreed in engineering so no amount of technical babbly-gook would overwhelm me? check and check.<\/p>\n<p>Then what did I do? I went way way over budget on my first space. Chose bad contractor and subcontractors, fell behind schedule, threw money at situations, and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>My lessons are your lessons. Stop by a little workshop I&#8217;m teaching on Saturday May 3 in Kansas City.\u00a0Learn about some ways you should&#8217;ve done for your first space so you can do better for your next space.\u00a0Learn about some nuts and bolts ahead of time before you dive in headfirst.<\/p>\n<p>Your physical space will be your single biggest cost upfront, and recurring expense. Give it the attention it deserves!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Chang of BLANKSPACES in LA will be teaching a GCUC workshop on Saturday, May 3rd at 1pm. \u00a0Get your tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/austingcuc.ticketleap.com\/gcuckc\/dates\/May-01-2014_at_0900AM\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partitions, square footage costs, accessibility, fixtures, path of egress&#8230;Welcome to the morass that is architecture and construction. If you don&#8217;t have a serious understanding or experience with being in the trenches of building out a space, be prepared to be in a world of hurt. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t coworking all about community?&#8221; you ask. You got it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[81,114],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}