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Managing design in infrastructure projects: a proven model to drive the front end of projects. Description: Managing designers is recognized as challenging in all sectors, never more so than in infrastructure projects. Much if not all the design work is carried out by people external to the owner and normally external to the main contractor as well. Responsibility for managing design may be allocated by contract, but this rarely helps to ensure efficient and effective design happens. All too often design work is late, fails to meet stakeholder requirements, and costs more than was originally budgeted. Whilst there are many generic models of design management, including some models developed specifically for building, the adoption of these models by industry has been sporadic. Most models of design management for infrastructure are predicated on old ways of working, and do not reflect modern ideas of management. This session will review a recent model of design management specifically developed for infrastructure projects. It has as its fundamental base modern project management theory. This model of design management integrates simply and clearly into the project management approach needed for infrastructure projects. The result is that overall project delivery of the infrastructure and the design of that infrastructure can be managed seamlessly and efficiently. A case study will also be presented of a global construction company that has adopted this new model of design management with significant improvement in project delivery. Speaker: Peter Harpum, Ph.D., MSc, MAPM Track: Oil, Gas, and Renewable Energy |
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