Arabtec CEO Tom Barry was speaking the Construction Week Conference
Architects and designers need to be given more time to perfect their designs in order to prevent project costs spiralling out of control, said a leading contractor.
Speaking at the Construction Week Conference in Dubai on Tuesday, Arabtec CEO Tom Barry said that rushing projects was causing problems in delivery.
“During the boom, everyone was in a rush and often you’d get designs from architects that really, were incomplete,” he said. “If clients and developers ensure architects have time to develop their designs properly, they could price the project better.”
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what ever reason but its should be not negotable in term of design and project. its fully client and program manager res
His comments were seconded by RMJM design director Kevin McLachlan. “It’s always been good practice for architects to do that, because then you get fewer questions back from the developer afterwards. But I think all of the practices here were inundated by the sheer scale and number of projects under development.”
The Construction Week Conference is taking place at the Raffles Dubai hotel.
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Ramesh (Nov 3, 2009) Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
Incomplete design = money, design value and time lost
what ever reason but its should be not negotable in term of design and project. its fully client and program manager responsibilities to give clear intenetion to architect to do proper design and drawing which is going for construction. we talking for LEED/Sustable but its not look to me any point of view sustanable if we have not complete design which is applicable to do construction...
lot of rfi's going from contrcator side and holding the job in middle to confim..... no buddy thinking about the lending the money and time on the project......
Fatih Ermihan (Nov 3, 2009) Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
incomplete designs = money and time lost
There are several reasons for having incomplete designs;
1. Clients should give the architectural program very clear and should show their requirements at the beginning.
2. If Client changes their opinions, they should provide the necessity time frame to the designer for modifications to be followed.
3. Client should monitor each step of the design and every step should be approved prior the start of the next one.
4. Client`s approval is not a sign that the contractor can build the design without any design mistakes. The Client`s review can become weak, then, the contractor should study the design more than anybody else to find out the conflicts and discreminations at the beginning.
I witnessed that huge amount of money and time lost during the construction because of incomplete designs in UAE.
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what ever reason but its should be not negotable in term of design and project. its fully client and program manager res