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When your project begins, it is worth checking that you understand the deliverables the team will be working on and presenting to you. Your architect will use drawings, diagrams, renderings, and other imagery to communicate your next steps and options. The design process works best with swift feedback and approval, so understanding how to read and interpret basic drawings, imagery, and documents plays a large part. Architectural drawing comprehension is not common, so you should not feel remotely embarrassed about asking for help. The best advice when starting is to ask your architect to see the drawings, renderings, and documents they have created from a project that is similar to yours in scope prior to starting work. You can talk through what was involved with making them and how they were used. Your architect is here to help you at every phase of the design and construction activity. They will want to be a resource and your advocate. They will have been through the process of delivering a project many times before. If you have the right conversations at the beginning of the project and find the required alignments, you’ll succeed.