Design Management

Foreword

This Design Management Guide is a timely publication, coming as it does at a point when the time pressures on the design process are so intense. In the pre-construction period, the design process is increasingly compacted into a shorter period as the wish to get on to site earlier with a high degree of cost certainty increases. There is then the conflicting requirement to manage design input that is prepared over an increasingly longer portion of the overall construction process – in particular, that undertaken by contactors and their specialist subcontractors generally simultaneously with the construction period. In such a pressured environment it is welcome to see a renewed focus on the role of the lead designer and the skills and ...