Smart Design Management
Design problems discovered on site are the most expensive to fix: late changes, poor coordination and unclear briefs turn into variations, delays and claims. This programme gives project and design managers a structured way to manage design from the brief to construction information, using stage gates, digital coordination and disciplined review so that designs are complete, buildable and within budget.
04 - 08 October 2026
Dubai
5 Days
USD 4,500On many capital projects, design is treated as something consultants do rather than something the project manages. The client brief is incomplete or keeps changing, design stages overlap without clear deliverables, disciplines work in isolation, and reviews focus on appearance rather than cost, buildability and operation. Information arrives late or uncoordinated, and the gaps become requests for information, variations and delay on site.
This programme treats design management as a controlled process. It follows the design life cycle: setting a clear brief and design responsibilities, planning and programming design deliverables stage by stage, coordinating disciplines and information through digital tools, reviewing and approving design against cost, quality and performance requirements, and managing change and handover into procurement and construction.
Built on recognised practice. The programme references the ISO 19650 series on information management using building information modelling, the RIBA Plan of Work as a stage framework, the design and development requirements of ISO 9001, and the design responsibility provisions typically found in FIDIC and other standard forms of contract. Participants learn how to apply these as practical tools on their own projects.
Decisions this programme improves. Whether a brief is mature enough to start design; how to allocate design responsibility between consultants, contractors and specialists; whether a design stage is complete enough to pass a gate; when to freeze design and how to control late change; how much design to transfer to contractors; and what information the owner needs for operation and maintenance.
How it is delivered. Twenty hours across five sessions, built around one running case: a mixed-use building project moving from brief through concept, developed and technical design. Participants test a brief, build a design responsibility matrix and deliverables schedule, run a design review, assess a late design change and plan the information handover.
In-house option. For organisations, the programme can be tailored to your own stage-gate process, consultant appointments, BIM requirements and review templates, and delivered to owner, consultant and contractor teams together.
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