When You Trust Delivery You Can Plan Ambitious Project Outcomes

Construction projects that deliver all of their planned outcomes have tended to be exceptions. Now, modern methods of construction can transform the experience of construction projects for everyone – end users most of all.

With more trust in project delivery, will project stakeholders feel encouraged to become more ambitious? And will the result be more visionary building designs?

Project outcomes come in many forms. They include the basics of quality standards and on-time, on-budget delivery. Judged by even these most basic objectives a large percentage of construction projects have fallen short.

On top of this there are many specific functional requirements that matter most to the building’s users. And in the modern world we also have vital sustainability and energy-efficiency outcomes that cannot be overlooked.

The RIBA Plan of Work references seven strategies that, along with specific client outcomes, help to define a successful project:

• Conservation
• Cost
• Fire Safety
• Health and Safety
• Inclusive Design
• Planning
• Plan for Use
• Procurement
• Sustainability

Opportunities to be Ambitious

Given construction’s track record when it comes to delivering planned outcomes you might think that this is all academic. Maybe lack of confidence in project delivery has caused stakeholders not to ask for too much to avoid disappointment.

But as construction moves from a ‘building’ to a manufacturing mindset there are many reasons to be both optimistic and more ambitious. Construction can achieve more and deliver what it promises. It’s all a question of choosing the right approach and methods.

With the right approach, the process of moving from planned to real outcomes becomes fully connected. What is designed is exactly what is manufactured and built. The entire end-to-end process is configured around delivering the planned outcomes.

In this environment consulting with end users about their functional requirements makes more sense. There’s confidence that what they ask for will be delivered.  The 3D design model can be enhanced with VR so that users can envisage how the space will function and make practical improvement suggestions. And the combination of BIM and MMC ensures that the vision is fully deliverable.

For construction projects large and small, there’s every reason to be optimistic and ambitious that better outcomes (in all their forms) will be delivered as a matter of routine.

For more information about how Osborne’s approach to construction delivers better project outcomes contact Richard King ([email protected]).