Lead Designer's Handbook
The Lead Designer and Design Management

Despite co-ordination being the principal focus of the Lead Designer?s role, there is very little written about how to undertake these duties. What tools can the Lead Designer use to address the many complexities of developing a design as part of an iterative process? How can the Lead Designer redefine what they do using a digital world to provide profoundly different and new services? This book analyses at all of these questions, setting out how the Lead Designer can perform effectively and efficiently in the digital world, addressing clients? new whole life project requirements and new ways of constructing and assembling buildings.

Managing increasing numbers of specialists in the construction process requires experience to ensure that their contributions are properly managed and produced at the right time. This book considers this challenge. It will also consider how the Lead Designer can effectively lead and manage health and safety aspects and risks (the principal designer role in UK regulations).

1. Designer v Lead Designer v Design Manager 2. The value of a Plan of Work 3. Redefining the Project Stages Section 1: The Lead Designer 4. The Project Team 5. The Design Team 6. The Lead Designer: Managing Designers 7. Design Decision Making 8. Who does what, when? 9. Designing in a 3D Digital Environment 10. Harnessing the value of Data Section 2: Design Management 11. Co-ordinating and Integrating collaboratively 12. Design to Cost 13. Designing to Programme 14. Eight Essential Design Management Tools 15. Reviewing Design 16. Procurement and the Design Management Challenge 17. Streamlining Practice Management 18. Infrastructure and Product Design 19. ’Soft Skills’

Dale Sinclair is AECOM’s Director of Technical Practice, Architecture responsible for EMIA. His core expertise is the delivery of large scale projects and he is passionate about delivering these more effectively using innovative and iterative multi-disciplinary design processes that embrace the project life cycle.