• Improving management of building services design
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Improving management of building services design

Better control of design activities is a key project competence to enable design and construction teams to deliver better value to the client. The trend for increasingly complex buildings, to comply with more onerous building regulations and respond to more sophisticated occupier requirements, is matched by the trend for more complex supply chains and delegation of design to a wider range of technical specialists.

BSRIA has been publishing guidance on the allocation of design activities for nearly 20 years, and this course has been developed to help everyone involved with the management of building services design understand the specific tools that are now available to help this task.

Managing design processes in today's building sector requires a range of different approaches:

• Making sure that each different design group is clear where its work starts and ends
• Making sure that the different design disciplines are supporting each other's work, not repeating it or undoing it
• Making sure that design deliverables are clearly explained and understood.

This course is intended for professionals involved in the management of design processes within the Built Environment. This includes client project managers, team leaders and design managers within building services consultants and contractors, architects, cost consultants, project managers, principal contractors and specialist system designers, manufacturers and installers.

The aim of the course is to enable Built Environment professionals to deliver more efficient and more cost effective projects through improved management of design activities, primarily those concerned with building services. Better design management and greater clarity of each designer's role and responsibilities will lead to more profitable projects and less conflict inside project teams.

On completion of this course, delegates will:

• Have deeper understanding of the different standard models for dividing projects into stages
• Understand the relationship between project stages and different construction procurement routes
• Improve awareness of the design deliverables in general and the building services design deliverables in particular for the RIBA Plan of Work stages
• Become familiar with the drawing definitions and examples published by BSRIA for building services
• Become familiar with the pro-formas for design activity and for drawing production published by BSRIA
• Have experience of using the BSRIA Design Framework tools and pro-formas on a case study project.
   

Delegates will be provided with a copy of all the slides presented and BSRIA publication BG6/2009 Design Framework for Building Services (2nd edition).

Lunch and refreshments are provided.

The Lecturer - David Churcher
David Churcher is an expert on management processes within the building sector. He has authored BSRIA publications on whole life costing, customer-supplier relationships and has also delivered training and workshops on supply chain management, innovation in construction, and Soft Landings.