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AIA “Hot Topic”: Target Value Design

January 13, 2008  |  from Reforming Project Management

lass="pull_ad">Back in the fall 2007, the AIA Practice Management Digest asked Greg Howell, Executive Director of the Lean Construction Institute, to convene a panel of design and construction lean thinkers to write on lean design (for construction). I was one of the invited essayists. I wrote a paper with Greg and John Barberio. Our topic was Target-Value Design.

osed that Target-Value Design (TVD) turns the current design practice upside-down.

  • Rather than estimate based on a detailed design, design based on a detailed estimate.
  • Rather than evaluate the constructibility of a design, design for what is constructible.
  • Rather than design alone and then come together for group reviews and decisions, work together to define the issues and produce decisions then design to those decisions.
  • Rather than narrow choices to proceed with design, carry solution sets far into the design process.
  • Rather than work alone in separate rooms, work in pairs or a larger group face-to-face.

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