COST CONTROL DESIGN Professor: SAVINA TORRISI E-mail: storrisi@faculty.ie.edu Senior Tutor at IDE-RCA Savina Torrisi is an Architect, Senior Tutor and 2nd year Programme Leader at IDE and cofounding Partner of NOI architects. She has been teaching at IDE since 2004, has been invited as external juror at the Architectural Association and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d Architecture de Saint-Étienne, has been engaged as team leader in a series of workshops organized by the Olympic Delivery Authority and InnovatioRCA to deliver design ideas for the 2012 Olympic Park. Savina graduated in Architecture at the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and qualified as Architect in 2001 in Italy where she worked for her family s architectural firm before moving to London in 2002. She worked as Project Architect and Design Consultant for several architectural and interdisciplinary firms including Foster + Partners, Richard Rogers and Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects. Savina then co-founded NOI architects, an interdisciplinary architectural firms based in London that works in the diverse fields of architecture, urbanism, design and art. Her portfolio includes high rise residential and commercial building, hotels, lighting systems, modular residential systems and site specific installations. NOI architects and her work have been exhibited in UK and abroad and published on several architecture and design magazines and websites. Professor: JUAN LAGO-NOVAS DOMINGO E-mail: jlago-novas@faculty.ie.edu Juan Lago-Novás, Ph.D. is Director of the Master in Architectural Management and Design at IE School of Architecture and Design of IE University, and founder and CEO of DSC Architecture, an office for innovation in architecture. DSC Group provides services globally, with an advanced control and management methodology, in order to give its clients the best in terms of costs, time and quality. Based in Madrid the practice has an international spirit, opening its activity throughout the international framework with competitions and projects at different scales and sectors. The firm seeks to create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces that work with their surroundings. Juan Lago is also Vice-chairperson of the Juan de la Cosa Foundation, an organization that helps to promote Spanish architecture internationally. Juan Lago-Novás received his architecture degree from the Escuela Superior de Arte y Arquitectura (ESAYA), Madrid. He holds an MBA from the Escuela Politécnica de Madrid and undertook additional studies at Harvard Business School in the Leading Professional Service Firms Program. He is Ph.D. from the Escuela Superior de Arte y Arquitectura (ESAYA), Madrid. His Research focuses on the management of architectural practices and the implications of business decisions for design strategy. Published by IE Publishing Department 1
INTRODUCTION Being an architect is to keep creativity and sense of challenge alive throughout your career by turning each design project into an opportunity to step forward into research and innovation, to ameliorate day-to-day lives of users and inspire them to move into the future. However architects, particularly amongst many sole practitioners or small practices, struggle to associate the artistic side of the profession with the related cost implications. Architects must offer excellence of design and quality of service supported by a rigorous business system in order to achieve adequate rewards. Successful design proposals translate client s needs into a balance between innovation, beauty, functionality and technology, meet client s expectations within cost and time parameters while generating value for the architectural practice. Valuing the practice s work requires a deep understanding of the resources needed and related costs for an efficient delivery of the professional services. The measurement of the work content based on the information, drawings, schedules, allocation of appropriate personnel, technology/equipment and estimated numbers of hours required is fundamental to produce quality while getting adequate return. OBJECTIVES The course objectives aim to help students to: - Learn how to produce and manage a budget. - Estimate appropriate resources needed and related costs to deliver the quality of service required while getting a return. - Develop cutting-edge design concepts within the constraints of the target budget. - Understand that any client financial expectations can be matched by delivering design solutions that are original and innovative. METHODOLOGY The course will combine lectures, interactive exercises, readings, class discussions and a workshop, and will involve a high degree of student participation. 2
PROGRAM SESSION 1 Before the project: - Cost involved setting up the practice. - Competitions. - Different economic resources. The Project: - Direct costs. - Indirect costs. - Fee calculation: private / public. - Outsourcing B.C.: Phillips, R. (2009). Good Practice Guide. Fee Management - Section 5, Appendix C and D SESSION 2 Before the project: - Cost involved setting up the practice. - Competitions. - Different economic resources. The Project: - Direct costs. - Indirect costs. - Fee calculation: private / public. - Outsourcing B.C.: Phillips, R. (2009). Good Practice Guide. Fee Management - Section 5, Appendix C and D SESSION 3 Introduction to the Workshop: - Workshop structure and content - Competitions Other: House@900 Other: A1 (Excel) Other: B1 (Excel) Other: C1 (Excel) Other: C2 (Excel) SESSION 4 Cost Control Workshop: HOUSE@900 3
B.C.: Phillips, R. (2009), Good Practice Guide: Fee Management - Section 3 (sc) SESSIONS 5-9 Cost Control Workshop: HOUSE@900 SESSION 10 Group projects presentations. 4
EVALUATION CRITERIA Criteria Percentage Comments Class Participation 30 % Group Presentation 70 % BIBLIOGRAPHY Phillips, R. (2009). Good Practice Guide: Fee Management. RIBA ISBN 978 1 85946 180 8 (2011). Spon s Architects and Builders Price Book. Davis Langdon LLP. ISBN 0-415-27335-8 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-58845-4 (page 37 to169) Collyer, S. G. (2004). Competing Globally in Architecture Competitions. Wiley-Academy ISBN 0470 86 2130 Peripheriques Architects (2002). Your House Now: 36 propositions for a home Part 2.IN-EX Projects ISBN 3-7643-6739-3 5