ABSTRACT
We will now describe the practice of cost planning at our six plus one RIBA (2000) Plan of Work design stages. These stages take us from the inception of a project where we establish the need for the project to the production information and tender stage. Before we embark on a detailed description of cost planning practice, it is well to remind ourselves of the stages involved in the whole pre-construction process. In Chapter 2, we divided the cost planning of the design stages into six plus one key stages following the RIBA model of the pre-construction stages:
• Pre-design (Briefing stage) – Pre-stage A and Work Stages A and B.
