Lead Designer's Handbook

CHAPTER 6 DELIVERING DESIGN ON TIME

Introduction

A core challenge for the lead designer is ensuring that the design team’s work is delivered on time. Each project stage has different drivers and demands, each site and brief its own challenges. Tweaking the order of the tasks to be undertaken from one stage to the next, or the nuances of their timing to deal with project-specific constraints, can result in information not being available to manage interfaces or interdependencies.

The periods for the three stages of the design – stage 2: Concept Design, stage 3: Developed Design and stage 4: Technical Design – sit inside a Project Programme that looks at the strategic timing for the project. The primary goal of this is to determine when the project ...