Evolutionary and customer-oriented building design process
2018-10-18T08:10:37Z (GMT)
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The management and control of the evolution of the building design process is mainly
reliant on a project manager's experience and intuition, without a comprehensive and
analytical appreciation of its inner workings. Moreover, most process development
methods in building design lack a mechanism of directly addressing the customer's
satisfaction. More recently there has been a growing understanding of the importance
of effective design planning and management to overall project performance, and
hence ensure the smooth running of a project within the time schedule and the budget.
Furthermore, the current shift in industry thinking towards the value of a construction
product to all stakeholders requires an alignment of each element of the design and
construction process to the requirements of customers.
A Staged Evolving Analysis Technique (SEAT) has been developed in this research,
comprising two hierarchically structured design product models and two information
flow-based design process models to cover conceptual and scheme design stages. [Continues.]