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International Business Development and strategic support for architects as well as engineers and specialised planners

services

Selected projects of the last two decades Acquisition, coordination and 360° Consulting Services

selected projects

What our clients say about us

Our services are centred on maximising our focus on the needs of our clients. For two decades, visionlab has been supporting architects, engineers and specialised planners in opening up new markets with its proven successful model.

"Thanks to visionlab's support, we have realised several projects in non German-speaking European countries for
the first time."
Christine Nickl-Weller - Nickl & Partner Architekten
"International project acquisition through visionlab is more cost-effective than if we did it in-house."
Moritz Auer - auer weber
"With visionlab, we managed to become active in France, which we never managed to do before despite several attempts."
Fuensanta Nieto - Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
"The joint realisation of a courthouse in France enabled us to enter and win the competition for the largest courthouse in Bavaria."
Axel Krüger - Plan 2 Architekten
"The collaboration with visionlab has already enabled us to win a series of six commissions in France."
Iñaki Garai Zabala - IDOM
"We have found visionlab’s support, during the long duration of the realisation of the Necker Faculty of Medicine in Paris, to be essential."
Rainer Sladek - HENN

    • Danilo Lazzari has been managing director of visionlab since it was founded in 2004.

    As an internationally recognized expert on the cross-border transfer of architectural services, he is regularly requested for interviews and conferences on this topic. He also advises the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and develops and coordinates projects for German, Austrian, Swiss, Italian, Spanish, English, Danish, Dutch and American (North and South America) architectural firms.

    In 2002, he graduated in architecture from the Università Degli Studi La Sapienza in Rome (It) and the Bauhaus University Weimar (De). Danilo Lazzari managed projects for Nemesi Studio Rome (It) and was the founder of "competition office", responsible for its competition division and acquisition.

L'opportunité Française

Although we are active in several countries, we consider the French market to be particularly promising. Only three to a maximum of five teams are invited to French competitions. In addition, all participants are guaranteed a generous fee for their competition entry, so that an invitation to French procedures is often economically attractive due to the guaranteed competition fee alone.

In France, the selection process for the invited teams takes place without preliminary drafts, without a draw and without direct nomination.

The competition invitation (based on references of the competition team) in the context of a typically extremely small field of participants offers significantly higher chances of winning competitions than in all other European countries.

Regardless of the enormous number of tendered procedures (65% of restricted open procedures Europe-wide), one of the most important features remains the very rapid project progress. The financing is already in place, contractual contents are also clarified before the competition is announced, and once the winner has been selected, the project starts within 4 weeks, without further negotiations.

For "newcomers", however, it is laborious and complicated to be successful in France, because in addition to an application tailored to the French market, which requires some background knowledge, it is crucial to put together a team of partners with strategic connections in good time that covers all the competences required by the contracting authority.

We make this market accessible to you through our specific knowledge and network and provide relevant guidance regarding contracts, fees and liability.

Press: Visionlab in the media

Solidarity

For the last 15 years, we have been supporting disadvantaged girls in Nepal and Pakistan as a Plan International sponsor. It is important for us to help ensure that they can have access to an education and can lead a self-determined life. For a world in which children's rights are respected and girls have equal rights.

support (betterworld.org)