Chapter 5

Planning of Layout Activities

Abstract

In professional practice, design is always staged. These stages each run from an instruction for the designers to proceed, to the start of the sponsor’s next decision-making process. At each of these stages, many projects fail to proceed, such that only a small percentage of stage one design projects proceed all the way through to plant construction. Since design activity itself costs money, each stage involves only just enough design effort to provide the sponsor with sufficient information to make an informed decision about whether to proceed to the next stage.

Keywords

Design management; planning; project timeline; organization of design

5.1 General

This chapter explains how design activities ...

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