Do we build the right thing ?

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Do we build the right thing ?

• Problems
• We are duplicating well known building
  typologies endlessly.
• Projects with stakeholder involvement and flat
  demokratic decision structures tend to come up
  with lowest common denominator solutions
• Expert driven projects run into conflict with
  stakeholders in the implementation phase of the
  projects

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Do we build the right thing ?

• Research question
• How can we make sure that future buildings will
  have an innovative content corresponding to
  future user needs?
• Asumption
• We need to be working with clients and
  stakeholders on realising their potential needs
  and values before the very beginning of a project.

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• Briefing
• Briefing is today mostly done in a linear way
  presuming that stakeholders know what they want
  if they are just asked properly.
• In reality stakeholders dont know what they
  want until they see what they can get.
• Therefore briefing is no linear process.

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The non-linear devellopment of a project
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2 different meta phases
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• There is a basic difference between the
  structure of activities in the briefing and early
  sketching phases of a project and the structure
  of work being done in the later phases.
• The design of working processes for these two
  different meta phases must therefore be seen as
  separate and almost complimentary.

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• Value
• Innovative buildings must create value for the
  stakeholders.
• That means we have to look at how value is
  created in the knowledge society

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• Content of this paper
• The objective of this paper is to compare the
  notion of value and innovation as presented by
  Max H. Boisot, with the processes and activities
  in the early phases of construction projects.

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• Max H. Boisot Knowledge assets
• Potential value is created when concrete
  personal information is being transfered to a
  formula (codification) and general applicability
  can be extracted from this information
  (abstraction).
• This potential value can be realised when it is
  induced in a broader public forum. (diffusion)

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Information space
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Information space, potential value

• V-max

• V-min

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Information handling in construction projects
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• Presumption
• Only the potential value (knowledge assets)
  that is created in the early phases (briefing and
  sketching) can later be returned to the client in
  the form of realised value.(Hardware assets)

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Production of value
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• Consultant pulling in early phases
• Creating potential value is a pulling act.
• The consultant is pulling information from the
  client
• (Gibson Front end planning is the
  responsability of the client/sponsor??)
• Client pulling in later phases
• Creating applied value is also a pulling act.
• The client is pulling a project and a
  construction from the consultants and the
  contractors
• (Transformation Flow Value of Lean Construction,
  Koskela)

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• Research question
• How can we extend the amount of potential value
  being created (gathered) during the briefing and
  design phases.
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• Objective
• To create potential value through the
  codification and abstraction of accessible
  knowledge pulled from the client and to
  facilitate the diffusion and materialization of
  this value throughout the entire planning and
  construction process. (Collect and spread the
  news)

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The non-linear devellopment of a project
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• Further research for this paper
• How is information typically codified and made
  abstract in briefing processes.
• What links can be established to the
  Transformation Flow Value theorys of Koskela
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• Further research outside this paper
• Methods Transdisciplinary teams
• Preject manager
• Master of abduction

• Tools Investigations
• Confrontations
• Stories

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