ABSTRACT
The building, Ropemaker Place, and the coding of the corresponding system structure model is in this case seen from the perspective of Arup Associates who designed the project, as consultant in construction integrates architecture, structural engineering, environmental engineering, cost consultancy, urban design and product design within one studio. Arup Associates describes the work packages in the following way: The Works to be undertaken by the Trade Contractor shall be the design, co-ordination, procurement, supply, fabrication, manufacturing, delivery to site, assembly, installation, supervision, inspection, testing and commissioning of the Works. Due to the work package focus of Arup Associates, selected as viewpoint in the analysis, mostly the system structure does not as mentioned; display any sub-deliveries within the work packages. The construction management approach used by Arup Associates in the Ropemaker Place project brings them, as consultants, quite close to a contractor perspective but still with a point of departure in the architectural design rather than the later production of it.
