Overview

We transform aesthetic, performance, and construction requirements into custom-tailored architectural specifications for ENR Top 20 and leading contemporary design firms.


Andrew Wilson founded AWCWEST to promote innovation in the pursuit of one objective: elevate the perceived value of design professionals. Today we’re still committed to serving our mission, making us one of the most sought-after architectural consultancies in the West. From the moment you contact us you’ll realize you’re dealing with something very different from the typical specifications consultant.

COLLABORATION

We collaborate with folks from all over the country, and have earned our reputation as our clients’ outsourced in-house resource. Unmatched in our relentless focus on process, targeted use of technology, and commitment to reinvest earnings, we offer an innovative and highly collaborative specifications experience never before imagined and unavailable anywhere else.

VALUE

We produce clear and enforceable written documents that engender immediate project results, such as increased design team effectiveness and decreased conflict associated with bidding and construction. And working with us over time, our clients realize further organizational gains as beneficiaries of the lessons learned we’ve accumulated over an extensive consulting period: one that includes both diverse client and project histories, and comprehensive insights into building performance springing from a rich body of construction administration experiences.

TRUST

We’re an established and reputable business with plenty of large firm and large project experience, and we’re underwritten by substantial general business, auto, and professional liability insurance.

SUSTAINABILITY

We’re also a purpose-driven company, actively working to make a difference by improving both environmental and social sustainability.

  • We promote and specify eco-friendly practices and materials regardless of whether a project is pursuing LEED® certification or other sustainable compliance status;

  • We employ green business practices by utilizing renewable energy, by operating as a paperless office, and by maintaining ample bandwidth to collaborate electronically utilizing the web and other tools. And we show our clients how to do the same, bringing improvements to project team efficiency while at the same time minimizing our carbon footprint; and


We’d like to contribute to the maintenace and growth of your firm’s revenue and reputation, so we invite you to contact AWCWEST and experience first-hand the impact of a collaboration built on shared success.

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posted May 21, 2009

Believing the world to have enough specialization, Andrew Wilson founded his consultancy in the spirit of upholding and advancing architecture’s inherently generalist nature; and he’s committed to working tirelessly to elevate the perceived value of design professionals.
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Welcome to What’s Next

posted May 11, 2009

by Andrew Wilson

Ever wonder where we’re headed? What I mean is: on a warm, breezy Sunday afternoon, with barbecue smells and children’s laughter filling the neighborhood, between mowing the yard and watering the plants, do you ever take stock of where we are and try to imagine where we’re all headed? When you’re inching along in rush hour traffic, or clutching that slippery post as your train speeds away from the station, do you ever wonder how we’ll get to where we’re destined to go?

I do. I think about these things all the time. Some say too much although I’m not sure I’d agree. For me, tiny moments of everyday life are perfect respites that invite contemplation. And after all this time, after years of pondering the future of my chosen profession architecture, considering context, reading signposts, and wargaming scenarios, what I’m absolutely certain of is this: while our path to the future is more stepping stone than superhighway, the direction is unmistakeable. And it troubles me.

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