Innovations in Design Management Flashcards
What are the overall reasons that innovations are required?
- Who manages the design / construction process?
- Who has an overall overview of the project lifecycle?
- Who owns the design / construction process?
- Who is the guardian of quality and value?
What was the issue with the previous plan of work?
It was a linear process, little or no collaboration. The traditional plan of work. The definition of RIBA plan of work is a systematic tool but efficient design management. It is a linear process, it is step by step process, work and collaboration is to a minimum. Everybody is not properly aware of what the other one is doing.
Why is there a need for innovation and change?
There are two reason why these changes have been made. Issues related to design management.
- Building industry issues (summarised by Latham, Egan and Morrel) as low productivity, quality of delivery fragmented industry, lack of collaboration, no effective communication
- Productivity compared to other sectors increased due to the recession.
What are KPIs?
Key Performance Indicators
What are the problems with the old KPIs that recognised a need for change?
Looking at KPI indicators. Only 74% of building are delivered satisfactory. We are expecting 26% of all our clients to accept our buildings which have problems. Often defects occur because industries work in isolation.
Provision of Information – Architects are only providing 73% the other 27% is lacking relevant information to complete the works.
What are the issues with Cost Overruns and Cost Predictability?
Only 80% of the project we meet the budget. 40% of projects are over-budget. Some of the issue which led to transformation and changes that have arrived.
This may also be to do with financial situations outwith the scope of the project.
What are the issues with Time management and delays?
Time predictability, most projects don’t finish on time. If we can only perform to 40% then why are we not doing something about it? Egan made a link with industries, he say them as by using IT systems, they have managed to advance to higher productivity and time management.
From design to completion all information is linked together. Everybody wants to claim everything for themselves. From 1998 till 2009? There was a little progress, not much progress. The statistics go up to 2012, so we are not yet out of the problems.
What is a main issue of design management?
It is the flow of work throughout a project period and how this implicates further factors.
The Macleamy Curve - The process of designing construction building, if you make a change you have to send it back and forward, going in a circle through consultants. In the construction documentation, the pressure is large when production of information is required, this is where a lot of mistakes are made. Any changes done after construction cost time and money. So it needs to be complete before hand.
What are the innovations?
- Introduction of clear process to manage design and construction to deal with increasing complexities
- A professional / profession to manage the process and safeguard quality and value
- Move to a more dynamic working methods using advanced IT systems (BIM, collaboration, communication, data management…)
- Create appropriate legal, contractual and management frameworks
At the moment there is a no profession which looks at a process from the beginning to the end. Move towards BIM. Procurement is probably one of the main problems which changed the RIBA Plan of work. The value to the plan is that everyone know what ‘stage D’ means etc…however the process does not work with other advances.
What is the motive for the innovations?
Government legislation: all government projects/assets, over £5 m, are to be in BIM by 2016 (Cabinet Office, P Morel’s report 2011)
A general aspiration of the industry to improve its performance at all levels exploiting advances in ICT
What is the definition of Design Management?
Design Management includes the management of all project related design activities, processes, people and resources:
- Enabling the effective flow and production of design
- Contributing to achieving the successful delivery of the completed project, on time, on budget and in fulfilment of the Customer’s requirements on quality and function in a sustainable manner.
- Delivering value through integration, planning, co-ordination, reduction of risk and innovation
- Achieved through collaborative and integrated working and value management processes.
COB took the initiative in the UK to come up with what is design management, and the contractors are most effected by it. The kind of definition that is all agreed on. Fulfilling the customer’s requirement, the area of quality that often is removed. Integrating and collaboration. Value is very important, money value is for profit.
What is HOK building SMART?
An innovative way of working in a virtual environment using intelligent objects in a model server so that design, construction, operation and sustainability are tested and optimized before work commences on site”
Now these are the innovations. HOK London, looks at how to improve the construction industry through technology and innovation. In the core model, the architect used to be in the middle, the business model changes the Building to be in the middle(the inormation about the design is core) Everybody else, the professional can contribute to it. The focus has shifted from the professional to the product. The proffessionals are there to ensure the quality of product is maintained and produced efficiently. Delivered on time, on cost and value on quality.
What is BIM and why use it?
At the basis of that is BIM. The 3D images are only an interface. How much information you can create, all areas can see your design intentions. QS can already have an idea of what material you want to use early on. Behind BIM is a lot of information
- A BIM is a lifecycle information collection point for a facility
- A BIM allows for the creation of facility information relationships
- A BIM is focused on saving resources (£, time and materials) during each phase of the facility life cycle
- The more mature the model the more usable it is – but any collected data is better that how we do business today
What is the definition of BIM?
National BIM Standard Definition of BIM – buildingSMART
A Building Information Model (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle from inception onward.
A basic premise of BIM is collaboration by different stakeholders at different phases of the life cycle of a facility to insert, extract, update or modify information in the BIM process to support and reflect the roles of that stakeholder. The BIM is a shared digital representation founded on open standards for interoperability.
The National BIM Standard is part of the global buildingSMART Information Delivery Manual Initiative.
How is BIM proposed to be implemented?
the british government have introduced 4 stages to implementing BIM.
4 phases that the British government are sticking to. Basically how we progress to a BIM environment. Practically everyone should be beyond just CAD. 2D and 3D spatial, to show building. By 2016 they want everyone to be at the level of being able to use a database to feed the information, to be able to manipulate that information and use it as a tool for design and construction. 2016 is looking towards full BIM. If everyone reaches the level of Phase 2 then they will achieve collaboration. It improves access to database. Allows changes to be made much easier. Long term advantages, which allow the building to run until it is finished.
