Stan is a firm believer in the adage God is in the details, and approaches his work in a careful, organised manner. He appreciates that to produce fine buildings one requires an efficient office and he fine-tuned the production and administrative aspects of his practice by the introduction of CAD in 1980 and by development of sophisticated office systems and the compilation of a comprehensive office manual.

Stan is also interested in the legal aspects of architectural practice and was an early member of the Association of Arbitrators. He completed its arbitration training course in 1996 and became a Fellow of the Association. He has conducted numerous arbitrations and mediations, and his extensive legal knowledge and experience has resulted in his having been invited to act as expert witness in the litigation of building disputes on many occasions.

Stan's strong sense of duty to his profession has impelled him to serve it in a multitude of capacities: he has been a member of many committees of the South African Institute of Architects and the South African Council for the Architectural Profession and has played an active role in the drafting of the building contracts published by the Joint Building Contracts Committee. He also participated for many years in the training courses presented by the Institute.

But probably his most important contribution to the profession has been his work on the Institute's Practice Committee, on which he served a ten-year period of office as Chair from 1996 to 2006, and he gave freely of the knowledge and experience in practice issues that he had gained in his own office. This is perhaps best seen in the Practice Manual compiled by the Institute and issued to its members, and much of the valuable material in the manual has been culled from the office manual that Stan put together for his own office.

Stan's contribution to the profession of architecture is valuable not only in respect of the impressive volume of work that he has done for it, but for the example that he has set to fellow members, an example which would be difficult to equal and impossible to surpass.