The RIBA must wage war on glaring procurement flaws

Article Abstract:

The RIBA's Dublin conference title, 'Good clients=good architecture', can be simplified as good clients help to make good architecture but good planners, good constructors and also good architects are also needed. Monolithic cash-starved bidders who are desperate to win the cash opportunity drive the buildings without intelligent and powerful clients.

Ireland, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Royal Institute of British Architects

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Grounded by a culture of constraint and control

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Unexplained bureaucracy plays an increasing part in every day life and architecture is no exception. Architects are almost inured to the tedium of form-filling, but the office of the Health and Safety Executive continue to offer new versions of constraints, which not only result in wastage of time, and drain of morale.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Government regulation of business, Trade regulation

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Performance pedants offer us progress in a straitjacket

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Measurement of performance remains to be a straitjacket, focusing on cost, not value, quantity, not quality and the short term. Good clients and architects have an intuitive understanding of the possibilities of future value and hence it is doubtful whether measurement could improve on that.

Management dynamics, Personnel administration, Human resource management, Practice, Company personnel management

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