A Question for Building Owners: Did Your Project Experience This?
A Question for Building Owners: Did Your Project Experience This? Recent (Part 3 of 3 in a series on why the AE industry’s design schedule is failing projects) For the past two weeks, I’ve been writing about a problem inside the AE industry: design schedules that compress Schematic Design to 15–20% of total project time […]
The Cost of a Late Decision: Why Deferred Design Problems Are Never Free
The Cost of a Late Decision: Why Deferred Design Problems Are Never Free Recent (Part 2 of 3 in a series on why the AE industry’s design schedule is failing projects) Last week I wrote about why the AE industry’s standard design schedule — which allocates only 15 to 20 percent of total project time […]
Why the AE Industry Is Shortchanging Schematic Design — And What It Should Look Like
Why the AE Industry Is Shortchanging Schematic Design — And What It Should Look Like The AE industry has a quiet consensus: allocate 15 to 20 percent of the design schedule to Schematic Design, then move on to the “real work” in Design Development and Construction Documents. I think that’s backwards — and in practice, […]