The Design Quality Manual Improving Building

Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, cost consultants and contractors. Negotiating design priorities is an important part of the development process. The Design Quality Manual helps give an objective evaluation of the qualitative aspects of design. Matrices with five defined levels of quality have been developed that cover the key areas of architecture, environmental engineering, user comfort conditions, whole-life costs, detail design and user satisfaction. These can be scored by a visual survey and professional judgement and then augmented by scientific measurement where possible (e.g. temperature, lighting and sound levels). The resultant scores allow comparisons in terms of overall and specific aspects of building performance and design quality. The Manual covers schools, hospitals and housing and offers a set of criteria by which to judge a broad range of design values; it focuses the design team on the needs of the end user and on the overall building performance.

Martin Cook is a senior researcher at the Building Research Establishment

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations and acronyms	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Overview of design quality and building performance	p. 1
Building procurement systems	p. 6
Chequered history of building procurement systems	p. 6
Cultural context of building procurement systems - public v. private?	p. 10
Architects and social status	p. 11
Architecture: art, profession or commercial enterprise?	p. 13
Client's changing needs and objectives	p. 19
References	p. 20
Building procurement	p. 23
Evolution of the building industry and professionalism	p. 23
Modern building procurement systems	p. 24
Traditional building procurement	p. 28
Variants of the traditional system	p. 30
Design and build	p. 32
Variants of design and build	p. 34
Management contracting	p. 35
Construction management	p. 37
Design and manage	p. 39
British Property Federation system	p. 40
Project management	p. 42
Professional development system	p. 47
New Engineering Contract	p. 49
Private Finance Initiative	p. 49
Building procurement guidance	p. 51
Chapter summary	p. 53
References	p. 57
Schools	p. 61
Historical evolution of schools	p. 61
The modern era of school building	p. 65
Twentieth century schools	p. 66
Twenty-first century schools	p. 68
PFI schools in England and Wales - Introduction	p. 70
PFI schools in England and Wales - Design Quality Matrices	p. 72
PFI schools in England and Wales - Overall summary matrix	p. 74
PFI schools in England and Wales - Architecture	p. 77
PFI schools in England and Wales - Environmental engineering	p. 80
PFI schools in England and Wales - User comfort	p. 84
PFI schools in England and Wales - Whole life costs	p. 87
PFI schools in England and Wales - Detail design	p. 90
PFI schools in England and Wales - Conclusions	p. 93
PFI schools in England and Wales - Recommendations	p. 94
PFI schools in England and Wales - Summary	p. 96
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Introduction	p. 100
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Description of the project	p. 102
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Design Quality Matrices	p. 102
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Overall summary matrix	p. 104
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Architecture	p. 107
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Environmental engineering	p. 110
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - User comfort	p. 113
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Whole life costs	p. 116
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Detail design	p. 119
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - User satisfaction	p. 122
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Conclusions	p. 124
PFI schools in Northern Ireland- Recommendations	p. 125
PFI schools in Northern Ireland - Summary	p. 126
International case studies	p. 129
Further international case studies	p. 132
References	p. 132
Hospitals	p. 135
Historical evolution of hospitals	p. 135
The modern era of hospital building	p. 140
Twenty-first century hospitals	p. 144
Benchmarking hospitals - Introducing a design quality method	p. 147
Benchmarking hospitals - The Design Quality Matrices	p. 148
Benchmarking hospitals - Architecture	p. 150
Benchmarking hospitals - Environmental engineering	p. 151
Benchmarking hospitals - User comfort	p. 152
Benchmarking hospitals - Whole life costs	p. 153
Benchmarking hospitals - Detail design	p. 154
Benchmarking hospitals - User satisfaction	p. 155
Benchmarking hospitals - Building aspects of clinical safety	p. 156
Benchmarking hospitals - Recommendations	p. 157
Environmental sustainability	p. 158
International case studies	p. 160
Further international case studies	p. 163
Chapter summary	p. 164
References	p. 166
Housing	p. 169
Historical evolution of housing	p. 169
The modern era of housing	p. 175
Twenty-first century housing	p. 180
Benchmarking housing - Introduction	p. 182
References	p. 183
Bre's Design Quality Matrices	p. 185
Index	p. 193
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