A Predictive Model of the Building Design Process
In a complex construction industry, such as that in the UK, the building process is predominantly that of assembling components made off-site. This requires that all the components are detailed, together with the methods of fixing, sufficiently early to ensure that the components are delivered to site at the right time. The effect of this has been to increase the number of drawings produced by the design team, for a typical project, to between 500 and 5000. Frequently this process fails because its complexity is not understood nor managed sensibly.