Design management is one of the most important processes for managing the design aspects of any construction project, from initial concept to completion. This involves coordinating the work of various design consultants, ensuring the design meets the Owner’s requirements and specifications, and managing the design process to ensure completion on time and within budget. This affects many aspects of the project, such as ensuring safety during the design development. Initial study of project costs during design and cost optimization. Compliance with technical regulations during design development to comply with regulations during construction.
Some key aspects of design management in construction include:
- Understanding the Client’s goals. This includes understanding the Client’s objectives and operational requirements, preparing and reviewing project briefs and specifications, and engaging and managing technical designers. This also involves coordinating many design consultants from various fields and combining the developed designs into a single set of the design documentation for the Client.
- Control of design development. This involves ensuring that design documents are prepared in accordance with contracts, Client requirements, laws, standards & specifications, including designed materials and standards compliance, while staying within the project budget.
- Design quality management and its approval. This process involves ensuring that design documentation meets the required quality standards. EK Innovative Engineering carries out verification of drawings according to the procedure “A”, “B”, and “C”, where “A” – approved and handed over for construction, “B” – approved with comments, and “C” – rejected for revision.
- Safety in design awareness. This involves the development of drawings with advance consideration of all barriers and openings (including temporary measures during the construction phase), for timely early anticipation and prevention of accidents at the design stage. And practicing accident prevention at the stage of developing regulations and project procedures.
- Cost management in design. This includes considering design-stage cost management associated with the design process, including tracking costs, identifying cost overruns, and making budget adjustments as necessary.
- Risk management during design development. This includes early identification and management of risks during the design phase that may impact further design and construction process, including safety risks, financial risks and legal risks.
- Industrial design refers to the design and construction of buildings and infrastructure that meet the needs of the industrial sector. At EK Innovative Engineering we envision the integration of various processes, machines, equipment and industrial building code requirements into functional industrial buildings. Based on production experience we help our Clients in planning production space and ergonomic organization of production lines.
Effective design management in construction is essential to ensure that the project is completed on time, on budget and to high quality standards. EK Innovative Engineering helps protect the rights of all project parties involved and ensures meaningful reporting.
In addition, by implementing a robust design management system, we facilitate improved communication, more accurate budgeting and more efficient project delivery. Design management is an important part of project management and our Design Managers play an important role in ensuring projects are successfully completed. Additionally, a well-managed design process can result in more reliable project schedules and better overall project outcome.
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