Process Management in Design and Construction

✍ Scribed by Rachel Cooper, Ghassan Aouad, Angela Lee, Song Wu, Andrew Fleming, Michail Kagioglou

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Process management enables efficiency improvements by identifying and integrating generic sub-processes. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to process management in design and construction in order to meet the business needs of the construction industry in a highly competitive global environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Process Management in Design and Construction......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction - Why Process?......Page 15
Product development in manufacturing......Page 18
The need for new product development (NPD)......Page 20
NPD activities......Page 21
NPD models......Page 23
Applying product development to construction: historical background......Page 30
Construction project process models......Page 34
Process development in construction......Page 37
Conclusion......Page 39
Approaches to process modelling......Page 40
Process improvement......Page 45
IT and the design and construction process......Page 53
Legacy archive and process information management......Page 59
Latest technology development......Page 60
Future vision......Page 61
3 Case Study: the Generic Design and Construction Process Protocol......Page 63
What do we mean by 'process'?......Page 64
Construction and 'process'......Page 66
Manufacturing and 'process'......Page 68
The terms of reference for designing the Process Protocol......Page 69
Factors identified with problems in the design and construction process......Page 70
The concept of the Process Protocol: the drivers and philosophies......Page 76
Operation of the Protocol......Page 86
The Process Protocol described......Page 87
The Process Protocol elements......Page 90
The Activity zones......Page 95
Deliverables......Page 99
The use of technology during the process......Page 102
Postscript: the development of the sub-processes and a toolkit......Page 107
Summary......Page 117
4 Implementation Issues......Page 119
Implementation issues......Page 120
A case study of implementation: Britannia Walk......Page 128
Communication......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 140
Phase 0: demonstrating the need......Page 142
Phase 1: conception of need......Page 143
Phase 2: outline feasibility......Page 144
Phase 3: substantive feasibility study and outline financial authority......Page 145
Phase 4: outline conceptual design......Page 146
Phase 5: full conceptual design......Page 148
Phase 6: production design, procurement and full financial authority......Page 149
Phase 7: production information......Page 150
Phase 8: construction......Page 151
Phase 9: operation and maintenance......Page 152
Project management......Page 154
Resource management......Page 155
Production management......Page 156
Health and safety, statutory and legal management......Page 157
Change management......Page 158
List of Abbreviations......Page 160
References......Page 162
Index......Page 201