ABSTRACT

Reviews of a design are core to the design process. The lead designer needs to understand the value and importance of different types of reviews, acknowledging the most important ones in the Design Programme. This chapter looks at the challenges of reviewing the work of specialist subcontractors and how reviews can be effectively used internally to assess design quality or for quality control purposes. It considers the different types of design reviews, when these should take place and how technology will enhance the review experience for everyone in the project team in new and previously unimagined ways. The amount of information produced by the design team increases as a design develops. Design reviews using design information for formal comments by others, including the client team or planners. Immersive technologies provide game-changing ways of undertaking design reviews. The client may have strong views on the design and occasionally they may insist on a specific change with which the design team disagrees.