Computer-Integrated Building Design
| Date: 28 April 2011, 05:29
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In writing this book, I had two main purposes. First, to demonstrate to architects, other construction professionals and clients
the ‘near-future’ potential of reasonably low-cost computing for integrating the building-design process in their projects. In
practice the aim will be to allow the design activity of each person involved in a project to be carried out simultaneously.
Thus, the impact of different architectural, engineering and construction design decisions upon each other can be understood
immediately and evaluated as part of the normal process. It is only in this way that each member of a project team can be
assured that all the client’s requirements are being met simultaneously. The computer-based tools and techniques described
and illustrated in this book will bring about the realization of this aim in the not so distant future.
My second purpose is to propose that, in order for the computer to be used effectively for integrated design, an integrated
project-management process must also be put in place. This may mean changes in attitude in building practice so that
everyone involved is a designer; it may require procurement methods and contracts to support ‘partnership’ designing; the
general intention will be to create building information models based upon the input of each person’s special knowledge.
Unless the project-management process supports the effective use of Information Technology (IT) and the methods of IT
support the project management process, the benefits will not be realized. If the changes in both attitude and practice are not
forthcoming, then the application of IT might have the effect of further disintegrating a still fundamentally divided building
design and construction management process.
For the purposes of logical explanation, I have used particular terms regarding the roles of those involved in a building
project. The traditional roles of client, architect, engineer and specialist trade contractor are significant in terms of the
generation and exchange of information, in that they still commission, design and build buildings. Absorbing the traditional
roles of quantity surveyor and general contractor into that of construction manager is helpful when describing the input and
output of information within an integrated design process, in fact the traditional procurement method in which they appear,
should logically no longer exist.
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