Kirkor architect - Calgary

SUCCESS FOR ALL

In our work together, you will regularly hear our KIRKOR mantra: “We must set you up for success.” This is one of KIRKOR’s most important and foundational mission statements behind working and managing our projects. Our responsibility is to ensure that all project team members have the necessary information and decisions throughout the life of a project to make their own work successful. Whether this is our clients before their own committees, planners seeking support from municipal councillors, our consultant design and engineer partners, our constructors and their sub-trades, or our internal design studio team members, the KIRKOR partnership fundamentally believes it is the architect’s responsibility to look way ahead of the various tasks that define a project, and work to anticipate the information that we need to furnish, the decisions that need to be made, or the strategies we need to hatch.

The trait we just described comes from the skillful discipline of listening. To hear what is being said requires practiced leadership and is as much a disciplined process of attending to our stakeholders needs and aspirations as it is provocatively “shaking the bushes” to see what pitfalls lay hidden behind. This fact-finding is rooted in our 40 years of experience, where we may not know all the answers, but we know the questions to ask, and whom to ask, to help others in their own work. Whether this is of our Clients, Municipal Authorities, Engineering and Design Consultants, Constructors and Trade Consultants alike, we know how to orchestrate this information into a comprehensive action plan against which project stakeholders can chart their own efforts to be successful.

To be successful in our work, we need everyone else to be successful as well. It is a fundamental truth in all aspects of our everyday lives that respects who others are and what they have to say to us. And it shapes KIRKOR’s everyday approach to our work.