Herb Holcombe Jr Email & Phone Number

  A draftsman by trade and a designer by profession.  My background and experience of some 40 years started out space planning grocery store format designs for new construction, interior renovations, build-outs, and additions for a corporate grocery chain. Coordinated design of all plan layouts with department heads, specialists and purchasers in-house as well as communicating the scope of work with architects, contractors, product representatives and venders.  At a retail support center, we provided "Store Engineering" services to independent retailers that included the budgeting, purchasing and scheduling of products as it was related to grocery store fixtures, food service and preparation, stock area and back room equipment. Also we provided special services that included store design and interior coordination working drawings given to architects to produce construction plans or directly to contractors to build or install.  Additionally, I was employed with four architectural firms over a 25-year period doing design development and construction document phases of project delivery of architectural drawings working as a CADD technician, project team member, an individual contributor and a project coordinator. In whatever capacity, I engaged in project types that included corporate, retail, industrial, interior build‐out, and complex renovation projects. Provided site verification and field measurement work of existing facilities producing as-built drawings essential for renovation, addition or facility improvement design. Provided construction administration services and coordinated addenda, construction bulletins, directives, RFI responses, also performed shop drawings and submittal reviews.  Today, as a Registered Interior Designer and a technical specialist in construction document and various types of working drawings, I'm a co-owner of a home business, Studio H2, where we provide services such as consultant and contract work for architects, developers, property managers, corporate entities, and clients at large. Among the many things we do include single family and vacation home design and plans.

• Co-Owner

  Studio H2

  Sep 2018 - Present - Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area

  Among the many clients Studio H2 has served are:  Architects and contractors providing consulting and contracting services. We offer technical knowledge, experience, and expertise in project delivery of construction document production of exterior building shells as well as interior build-outs, facility improvements including interior renovations and additions. Construction document production is mostly related but not limited to commercial and is performed under the supervision of architects who know the quality of my work and who I know what standards they expect utilizing program requirements or applying a basis of design to a project given by an architect or a client. Clients at large such as corporate entities, real estate developers, property owners and tenants. We provide many design services including as-built documentation of existing conditions produced at a level that is acceptable for architectural use. We provide schematic planning, design development that can include 3D modeling, and project coordination drawings. Whether it is from a tenant information format or site-specific information that is used to produce a build-out set for a new or existing space. Home Builders and clients in need of house design and working drawings. We provide services for single family dwellings for residential use, for vacation use such as lake houses, chalets or A-frame construction, and for some homes either of a resort or a gated community. All are pending requirements or restrictions of the local AHJ, a HOA or an ARB Committee. Services include space planning, design development that can include 3D modeling and production of Builder's Set documents to obtain a permit for new construction, additions, renovations and improvements.