β Scribed by Simon Austin; Andrew Baldwin; Baizhan Li; Paul Waskett
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I n recent times there has been a growing understanding of the importance of effective design management to facilitate a coordinated design within budget, and to ensure the smooth running of the project. Traditionally, building design has been planned by the same methods used to programme construction. These techniques do not allow the effect of variations and delays to be fully understood within an iterative process such as design. They monitor progress based upon the completion of drawing work and other 'design deliverables' as opposed to the availability of key pieces of information. The ADePT methodology shown in Figure was devised to overcome these limitations 1 , and associated computer tools have been developed to facilitate more effective planning and management of building design 2 . The first stage of the methodology is a model of the building design process, representing design activities and their information requirements. The data in this model are linked via a dependency table to a dependency structure matrix (DSM) analysis tool 3 which is used in the second stage to identify iteration within the design process and schedule the activities with the objective of optimising the task order. The third
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