A653 Successful Design Management - London

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Trainer - Tony Trinick FREng

Increasing sophistication, building contracts and complexity of modern projects create new challenges to design management practices. This course provides key information to successfully manage design complexity in projects and gives practical knowledge on crucial aspects of design management.

Appropriate understanding and management of complexity increase chances for project success. This course analyses in detail steps to successful design management. It consists of four sessions that cover the following topics:

Session 1

• Introduction
• Principles of project management
• Understanding clients' needs
• Design process and constraints
• Technology impact
• Plan of work stages
• Poles and responsibilities
• Effect of procurement options

Session 2

• Quality management
• Design team selection and appointment
• Agreements
• Liabilities
• Project and designers' brief
• Allocation of designers' responsibilities
• Specialist contractors' input

Session 3

• Project culture
• Organisational structures
• Defining the tasks
• Project briefing documents
• Concept outline and detailed engineering design
• Control of interfaces

Session 4

• Managing information production
• Approvals
• Co-ordination
• Design evaluation and review
• Risk and value management
• Buildability
• Planning
• Monitoring
• Essential tasks or successful management of design

These sessions can be presented in a different order and the course may focus more on some particular issues then others depending on the delegates' requirements.

Who should attend:

• Client representatives
• Architects and engineers
• Project Managers
• Personnel involved in or wanting to know about the management of design

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