D’Anna Associates, established in 1980, is a rigorously innovative and dynamic professional architecture firm. Our practice has always been based upon functioning as a multidisciplinary collaborative, and we’re constantly broadening our resource structure to assure our operations utilize cutting edge technologies and methods to support our clients at every stage of the development process.  D’Anna Associates has held a reputation of delivering effective architecture via services that perform as processes of thorough analysis, communication, and ethical practice to achieve successful solutions.

The RANH helps neighbors in need by providing: food, clothes, transportation, counseling, and financial assistance. Rochester Area Neighborhood House recognizes the basic needs of residents in crisis and responds with emotional and financial assistance – for more info visit www.ranh.org).

The event took place at Bloomer Park, this past Saturday (6-18-11). This was a fantastic event, benefiting an even more fantastic local organization.  We all had a great time – some of us ran some of us walked, but we all finished in respectable time.  Congrats to our staff’s frontrunners who finished the race in 30 minutes.

D’Anna Associates is proud to have been a participating sponsor, as we share the values of the RANH who believes that people helping people is the model of a strong community.

We’d like to thank the Rochester Hills Government Youth Council for the invitation and for the opportunity to help!

Sponsor Banner at Registration Tent

As such, we are now an Energy Star partner and have the certification to qualify new projects as Energy Star compliant. The benefit to our clients is that when we’ve completed a project which reaches the required efficiency, it automatically qualifies as an Energy Star building if it’s built in close adherence to the plans we’ve prepared. The result is a building which uses a fraction of the energy a comparable building of the same scale would use and, ultimately, it costs the owner a commensurate amount to heat and cool it.

There is also a $2,000 tax credit for builders who build a residence which provides a 50% heating and cooling energy saving over those conforming with the 2004 International Energy Conservation Code. In fact, Energy Star qualified buildings exceed all current energy code in place to date.

What does all of this equate to? Smaller carbon footprint, cleaner air, and a long term cost savings for our clients.

Energy Star is a program administered by the EPA

Giuliana D’Aleo was born on May 3rd 3:21am, weighing 7lb-9oz and measuring 19-3/4” long – she is certainly healthy, beautiful, and so very sweet, and her presence serves as a reminder that at D’Anna Associates, our families are our inspiration. They are the reason we work hard and strive for greatness every day. Peter is a leader on our team and a key driving force of our continued success. He, his wife, and their son Giancarlo are extremely deserving of such extraordinary joy. We wish them the very best!

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“…  Hi-
My wife and I are trying to design our dream home.  We have a floor plan/model that we like but we need assistance in drafting the drawings and making some changes.  I was wondering what your costs are to develop drawings and modifications.

Thank you,
Joe  …”

Hello Joe,

Thank you for contacting us. Our fees are variable as a function of project scope and scale – simply put, more information is required to answer your question but I would be happy to discuss the project with you.

Often prospective homeowners are conflicted about commissioning an architect simply based on their fees without considering or simply not comprehending the significance the resultant plans have on the final product. Since you are seeking to build your dream home I assume that you will probably live there for an indefinite length of time and for most people, their home is their largest investment. Because of this, your greatest objective is that the final product be one which addresses your particular lifestyle and be certain that its conceiver can produce a solution which does just this while creating a cohesive, well designed result.

To address any uncertainties you may have, we can provide incremental services which would allow us to meet, compose schematic drawings based on requirements you set forth, and if you decide you want to proceed in developing the schemes we would continue doing so, if not, then you would only reimburse us for our invested time at that point without committing to any significant investment.

I invite you to visit our website and social network sites to browse through some of our work, then contact us to discuss the project scope in further detail or make an appointment.

Sincerely,

Pietro D’Aleo, RA

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