CID case studies
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The CID - Certified Interior Designer, often associated with the NCIDQ credential - is a professional certification for interior designers who want to demonstrate competence beyond entry level. It signals that a practitioner can program and plan space, apply building codes and accessibility standards, specify construction and materials, coordinate lighting and mechanical systems, produce documentation, and manage a project. The CID case studies are 5 cases and about 4,291 words.
1The Workforce Center That Fits on Paper
A regional workforce-development nonprofit is leasing 7,200 usable square feet on the third floor of a 1968 office building for a twelve-month pilot program. The brief the staff developed lists a 40-seat computer lab, two 12-person classrooms, four private advising rooms of 100 square feet each, a food pantry with 30 linear feet of shelving, a reception and waiting area for 15 people, 18 staff workstations, a break room, and a locked records room.
840 words, about 4 min2Retail to Restaurant: Three Doors, One Real Exit
A design team is converting a 4,200-square-foot retail unit into a full-service restaurant and bar. The unit is 60 feet across the storefront and 70 feet deep.
866 words, about 4 min3Cupping Planks on a 1920s Slab
A 1920s brick-and-timber boutique hotel is renovating 42 guestrooms on floors two through four. The designer specified a 7-inch engineered oak plank with a 2 mm wear layer, full-spread glue-down over a 10-mil vapor retarder on the existing concrete floors.
843 words, about 4 min4The Open Office That Is Cold, Hot, and Glary
An 11,000-square-foot open office on one floor has 76 benching workstations in six clusters, a 9-foot-6-inch exposed structural ceiling, and a perimeter window wall facing due west with 8-foot sills. The lighting design uses 4-foot linear suspended direct/indirect luminaires hung at 8 feet above finished floor, running parallel to and 18 inches from the supply diffusers of a variable-air-volume system.
883 words, about 4 min5Scope Creep, a Missing Survey, and a Certification Request
An interior design firm signed a fixed-fee agreement of 156,000 to design a 24,000-square-foot outpatient clinic fit-out, with the fee set at 6.5 percent of an estimated 2.4 million construction cost. The agreement lists basic services as programming, schematic design, design development, and construction documents, and states that the owner will furnish a boundary survey and existing-conditions drawings.
859 words, about 4 min