There are those of us who have to live with the implementations of designers
who feel that all designers should have to spend time living with the
realities of their designs. :) This has to do with the maintainability,
reliability and sustainability of their design. Nothing quite like
manufacturing something that you can't get back into to repair. You may
find the tools and information available from the Society of Logistics
Engineers at
www.sole.org supportive of this aspect of construction design.
Construction Management is often a project based type of management.
Insufficient planning prior to design can result in scope creep that has
significant impact on designers. You may find the tools and information
available from The Project Management Institute at
www.pmi.org supportive
of the project planning that keeps construction economical. :)
One of my lectures I call the "6 step lecture" and it addresses the ripple
effect of poor planning. Although based on a PMI background, it was
presented at Sole's national meeting. In class I follow it with a
discussion assignment. Think of a project you have been on that either
failed to consider one of the 6 steps, or did a great job of addressing one
of the 6 steps. Tell us about it and the impact the failure or awareness
had.
This assignment is designed to have them look back into their own experience
and realize that poor management will impact their designs .... tromp all
over their work. :) It gets to the "what's in it for me."
Hope this helps
Conna Condon
From:
giritli@itu.edu.tr [mailto:
giritli@itu.edu.tr]
I've been deeply interested in much of the recent discussions with
regard to teaching strategies. I'm teaching Construction Management &
Economics to architecture students - a few of whom are interested in the
topic of the course (a 70-student course).
This is probably due to the fact that they are mainly design-oriented
students
and find the topic unnecessary as a subject of study in architecture
faculties