MARTIN GERINGER

Tasked with leading the design process of two new campuses in the City of Cape Town, and procuring and appointing other role players and professional consultants.

• Design and build new Rigging Centre: a new learning facility to teach the new skill of Rigging, including new class rooms, training centre and external rigging yard including various custom built rigging structures.
• Appoint and lead all external team members.
• Identify and initiate all college infra structure maintenance programs.
• Set up design, construction and working drawings for all billing and appointment procedures.
• Manage and administrate the building process.

• Devised overall strategy for documentation and identified design sets planned for each stage of work including as-built designs and final building information models (BIM).
• Consulted with clients to determine functional and spatial requirements of new structure.
• Lead the design process.
• Worked closely with professional engineers and quantity surveyors to set up Bills of Quantities (BOQ) and to do budget planning and control.
• Present all design, conceptual, structural and planning documents to Clients and project team.
• Managed and led multi-disciplinary design team throughout development and contract document phases for small and large scale projects.
• Planned and led professional development reviews.
• Kept project on schedule and within budget while serving as project leader.
• Discussed zoning laws, fire regulations and building codes with city and county government agencies.
• Reviewed and checked technical drawings by architectural technicians, CAD technicians and drafters.
• Completed comprehensive code compliance evaluations.
• Created and updated project cost analysis spreadsheets.
• Met with municipal building department and other governing agency officials to coordinate approvals.
• Attended all team meetings to resolve technical and project issues, coordinate with team members and review project schedules.
• Recommended minor adaptations and modifications to complete working drawing sets.
• Reviewed contractor proposals and sets of drawings prepared by [Type] firms to identify missing information, generate questions and align budgets.
• Coordinated with segment leaders to promote architectural goals and design concepts.
• Reviewed project goals and objectives on monthly basis with project manager and design team.
• Created new and innovative approaches to problems and discussed strategies with project managers.
• Created, printed and modified drawings in AutoCAD and Revit.

• Work and Architect on various commercial and retail projects.
• Internal store layouts, back of house layouts, receiving and loading areas and parking layouts for large scale retail developments.
• Shop drawings for internal retail space, 3 dimensional presentations and technical documentation for shop fitting and building work.
• Coordinated with team members such as Engineers, Quantity Surveyors and internal store planners to design and finalize the shop fitting in a tight timeframes and budget constraints.
• On site supervision and project management.
• Created, printed and modified drawings in AutoCAD.
• 3D Modelling and presentation of internal store perspectives.
• Submitting and liaising with city council officials to get drawings approved and occupation certified.
• Client liaison with various high level residential projects.

• Created, printed and modified drawings in AutoCAD.
• Initiate implementation of work system on Apple Macintosh computers.
• Complete design and working drawings on ArchiCAD software for Apple computers.
• Client liaison to receive design brief, budget constraints and project time frames.
• Design direction, 3-D presentation and managing of the technical drawing process.
• Manage and control in house drafting processes.
• Met with municipal building department and other governing agency officials to coordinate approvals.
• Attended all team meetings to resolve technical and project issues, coordinate with team members and review project schedules.
• Reviewed and checked technical drawings by architectural technicians, CAD technicians and drafters.
• Discussed zoning laws, fire regulations and building codes with city and county government agencies.
• Coordinated with clients, consultants and contractors during construction bidding.
• Verified construction documentation conformed to quality assurance standards and client requirements.
• Kept project on schedule and within budget while serving as project leader.
• Worked closely with engineers and quantity surveyors and other team professionals.

Assisting Professional Architects in design, documentation, on-site supervision and administration tasks.

• Training in AutoCAD software.
• Council submission and approval processes.
• Design layouts for large retail parking areas.
• Sign off by mentor Architect and assistance in the completion of professional registration with SACAP.