- BIM (Building Information Modelling) - The UK Government has set out an ambitious goals in the Public section, and the plan has responded.
- Sustainability – The Green overlay published by RIBA places the emphasis of on early concept integration.
- Building Services – The new plan acknowledges the complexities surrounding Soft Landings, commissioning and Building Services’ whole life cycle design.
- Procurement - The old plan originated from traditional procurement and is not instinctively geared towards many of the contractor led procurement routes as an example.
- Statutory – The new plan integrates better with statutory processes (especially Planning, but also Building Control)
- Industry alignment - The new plan aligns with equivalent process models published by professional organisations, such as; RICS, CIOB, ACE, BSRIA, CIOB, CIBSE, ICE and the CIC Scope of Services
- Design by others – Integrated into the plan is Stage 5, a period to allow Specialist Subcontractors to complete performance design elements and packages.
- Flexibility - The generic structure of the plan will make it suitable for a wide range of projects, small and large, simple and complex not only in the UK, but Internationally.
The flexibility in the
draft plan is useful with regards to benchmarking, integration and planning a
strategy, but the devil is in the detail as always. There is no substitute for
detailed design planning and monitoring design risks is a micro level activity. Probably the best book on the market currently is; Leading the Team: An Architect's Guide to Design Management, by Dale Sinclair.
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