Architect's glossary
Etudes d’esquisse (ESQ)
Also called feasibility studies, phase aiming to establish more or less roughly imaged proposals taking into account the program, the specifications, the budget envelope and the regulatory constraints.
In regards to:
Phase dans le planning d’un architecte, faisant parti de la loi MOP. Voici les phases de la loi MOP:
| ESQ | sketch studies |
| AVP | pre-project studies |
| APS | preliminary design studies |
| ODA | final design studies |
| PRO | project studies |
| EXE | execution studies |
| SYN | summary plans |
| VISA | approval of the execution studies |
| ACT | assistance to the project owner for the signing of works contracts |
| OPC | scheduling, steering, coordination |
| TED | management of the execution of works contracts |
| AOR | for assistance during acceptance operations and during the year of the perfect completion guarantee |
| EP | preliminary studies |
| IAD | diagnostic studies |
For more information you can visit: https://www.architectes.org/MOP