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Perfect your plans and save money on change orders
Dan Chapel, AIA, NCARB
Dan Chapel is president of Chapel Associates in Little Rock, Ark., a nationally recognized firm specializing in animal facility design. His firm has participated in the design of more than 500 veterinary hospitals, boarding kennels, and animal shelters. Past projects include two Veterinary Economics Hospitals of the Year and several Merit Award winners. Chapel is a nationally recognized expert in the field of veterinary architecture, and has served as a featured speaker on topics of animal facility design at all major veterinary conferences. He has spoken at every Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Conference since 1981 and has served on the Veterinary Economics Editorial Advisory Board since 1985. For a list of articles and video by Chapel, click here.
Sinking effort into pre-planning will put your resources in the right hands.
"It's almost impossible to do a perfect set of drawings," says Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Conference educator Dan Chapel, AIA, NCARB. But, as he points out in this video, if you do the best you can up front, you'll save some cash on dreaded change orders.
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