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Planning and estimating design work: a review of British practice

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posted on 2017-01-26, 10:21 authored by David J. Blackwood, S. Sarkar, Andrew Price
This paper deals with the methods adopted by Architects and Engineers to plan and estimate the cost of their professional services and reviews techniques used by design managers to predict and plan the staff resources which are necessary for effective and efficient design work. The paper considers the significant trend towards fee competition amongst design professionals shows that there is a growing need for practices to more accurately assess and realistically programme their staff resource requirements. The paper also considers the extent to which cost control systems adopted by design managers are used to predict the cost of future design work and will describes a comprehensive survey which is currently being undertaken to investigate these issues.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Symposium on Architectual and Project Management Symposium on Architectual and Project Management

Pages

70 - 78

Citation

BLACKWOOD, D., SARKAR, S. and PRICE, A., 1992. Planning and estimating design work: a review of British practice. IN: Proceedings of 1992 Symposium on Architectural and Project Management, Nottingham, Great Britain, 1992.

Publisher

Spon/Conseil International du Bâtiment

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1992

Notes

Subsequently published as: BLACKWOOD, D., SARKAR, S. and PRICE, A., 1992. Planning and estimating design work: a review of British practice. IN: Nicholson, M.P. (ed.). Architectural management. London: Spon, pp.55-64. ISBN: 9780419177807.

Language

  • en

Location

Nottingham