By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President/CFO, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects In the April 5th issue of Engineering News Record magazine...

As of April 1, 2019, our architectural office moved to a new location. We are still in Redwood City, now in a lovely tree-lined...

Recently one of our clients ran into a problem with his General Contractor. He told the contractor that the project was permitted. The...

The Bay Area has been in a construction boom ever since the recession ended (even a bit before!). During the recession, the American...

“I already have a design, I just need the plans drawn up.” This is a statement that makes architects cringe. In some cases, it will...

On July 2, 2014 I posted a blog article with the same title. This is an update to that article. Now that the construction boom is the...

We keep hearing from our clients of the bad advice that they were told when buying property. The top piece of bad advice, by far, is...

In the current Bay Area construction boom, some commercial clients have been hiring residential contractors to fill the need. Sometimes...

The building boom is still going strong in the Bay Area, and one question that comes up often is “What will this project cost me in...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects A friend just asked us a question that might be of interest to...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects We can’t emphasize this enough—a designer is not a licensed...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects You want your son or daughter to go to college, get a degree and...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects So, you’ve missed the window for doing your construction project...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects As more and more people have become accustomed to finding what...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects One of the services we provide to our clients is to obtain a...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects We are seeing a disturbing trend when getting contractor bids for...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects We are often told by clients (and potential clients) that they...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects Resolve not to take on any projects that give you a sinking...

By Lorianna Kastrop, Vice President, The Kastrop Group, Inc. Architects “Upside Down House,” in Bispingen, Germany. I would like to share...

By Marie Barron, Designer, The Kastrop Group, Inc., Architects Last week we finally got some rain, and the weather’s finally cooling from...