Collaborative architectural design management
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A building project goes through a long process from project conception to realisation, handover, and
operation, and involves a large number of people and organisations. As a project becomes more
complex, more teams of specialists are required to combine their effort with considerable enthusiasm
and commitment to work collaboratively towards achieving the project goals. Each team or individual
participating in the project has its own agenda, goals and aspirations, which may not be congruent
with the project goals (Walter, 2002). Design, too, has increasingly become a complex collaborative
process that needs to be carefully managed, since many people from different organisations and with
different roles and multidisciplinary expertise are involved. Collaborative design process is
comprehensive, as it comprises many interdependent issues and factors which cannot be isolated to be
understood separately. The intervention of design management is expected since the early phase of
design because the conceptual design phase has become more and more complex and collaborative
design in this phase has become a real necessity
operation, and involves a large number of people and organisations. As a project becomes more
complex, more teams of specialists are required to combine their effort with considerable enthusiasm
and commitment to work collaboratively towards achieving the project goals. Each team or individual
participating in the project has its own agenda, goals and aspirations, which may not be congruent
with the project goals (Walter, 2002). Design, too, has increasingly become a complex collaborative
process that needs to be carefully managed, since many people from different organisations and with
different roles and multidisciplinary expertise are involved. Collaborative design process is
comprehensive, as it comprises many interdependent issues and factors which cannot be isolated to be
understood separately. The intervention of design management is expected since the early phase of
design because the conceptual design phase has become more and more complex and collaborative
design in this phase has become a real necessity
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Source title
Perspective on architectural management : a book by CIB W096 Architectural management. chapter 6
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