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About ArchiMentor Knowledge

ArchiMentor is a collaborative knowledge-sharing subscription website providing information and advice to UK architects and other construction industry professionals on a wide range of legislative, technical, and management issues.
The Knowledge pages are the core of ArchiMentor's service. Each page covers a specific topic ranging from the general, such as an introduction to the most common UK building contracts, to the specific, such as a detailed assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of anodizing as a finish for aluminium curtain walling. There are extensive links between the pages, and to external websites.
You can view a list of all the current topics from the Knowledge Index before subscribing.

For the larger office - ArchiMentor provides another technical information resource, and can even replace significant parts of your company's intranet.
For the medium size office - ArchiMentor provides the equivalent of your own in-house 'expert'. If you don't have the expertise or time to research those tricky issues, or don't have a central place to record the results of your research, then ArchiMentor is for you.
For the smaller office and the sole practitioner - ArchiMentor provides another pair of 'virtual hands' to carry out research and answer those tricky technical questions.
Some of the information may seem self-evident to the experienced architect but try to remember what it was like when you were starting-out - would you have known it then, or even where to find it? And ... we defy anyone to say that they've learned nothing from a trawl of our pages.

ArchiMentor's Knowledge pages are written by a small team of technical authors based on comments and information supplied by our subscribers. This enables us to maintain the consistency and quality of the published information in a way that is impossible when using forums or wikis.

Think of ArchiMentor as being like the office's "safe pair of hands", the guy who "knows it all", the one that everyone turns to for the answer to the tricky questions. In short, the office's "mentor".