Tang, Y (2006) Evolutionary and customer-oriented building design process. PhD thesis, Loughborough University, UK.
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building design; project manager; stakeholders; project performance |
| Index terms: | project performance, design and construction, building design, satisfaction, project manager, intuition, construction product, evolution, design stage, information flow, design process, product model |
| Subjects: | design methods, profession, economic analysis, architectural design, project delivery, environmental science, contractual arrangements, professional practice, modelling and simulation, project management theory and practice, information systems, cognitive psychology |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Digital Applications, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Roles and Professions, Project Management, Engineering Principles, Procurement, Sustainability |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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