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Inspiration believes that an architects role is not just to provide structures that are cost-effective, eco-friendly and climatically responsive, but are also beautiful and appealing. They think that a building should reflect the personality of its owner and which helps him identify with the structure. They see their role as that of an artist who brings together all the elements involved in the building activity in a meaningful composition.

In all their projects, the team of Inspiration tries to convince as much as possible their clients about the importance of using alternative technologies, be it individual clients or the government bodies. Like many other architects, they find that the government agencies are one of the most difficult clients to work with due to excessive constraints and restrictions. They, however, try their best to get their point across, especially emphasizing on the cost benefits of their technologies. They do not mind the fact that the use of cost-effective techniques actually results in the reduction of their professional fees, which is based on a percentage of the overall project cost.

They constantly encounter a lack of professionalism when it comes to monetary issues. Many people come to them thinking that as they give low-cost building solutions, so, even the architectural fees should be low. They however underline that it takes an extra effort to make the design a low-cost one, as it is not conventional and, hence needs much more thought. So, generally where the client's interest is only in reducing the cost of the building, their consideration is how to achieve the best quality and aesthetics possible in the constrained budget.

They highlight the fact that any material by itself cannot solely govern the cost-reduction of the building. The cost of the building is equally dependent on the way the design has been worked out, the materials are handled and the construction process has been handled. They point out many housing scheme initiatives that were begun using low-cost materials, but were abandoned as they erratically shot the budget due to lack of organisation and management of the construction activity.

Inspiration has been through a lot of ups and downs, but through all that it has finally been able to establish its name amongst the country's eco-sensitive architectural practices. Inspiration believes that it is successful, because they have established a high standard of quality in all their works. Their clients now unconditionally expect this standard from them and hence they cannot step down but only have to improve in every project. Due to this they have to even turn down some clients, to do justice to their current projects.