We have contributed to the Designing Buildings Wiki with an article about requirements management for construction projects, which can be found here. The article explains what requirements management (RM) is, why it is important, and what it entails. It explains briefly the following RM activities: >...
Our co-founder Juriaan van Meel gave a lecture about construction briefing at Leuven University, on their post-graduate course on real estate. He discussed the purpose of briefing, the relation between briefing and design, and different kinds of briefs (the strategic, functional and technical brief). He ended...
The Dutch company BIM-Connected has developed a platform called BIM-Bridge that can be used to exchange and compare building data between different software applications, on the basis of IFC models. The platform has a dedicated module for BriefBuilder data. This module can be used to compare and verify requirements concerning the following aspects: Quantities...
The Dutch company BIMlink has developed a connection between BriefBuilder and BIMlink’s platform for the management of building information. By means of this connection, information from the construction client’s brief/program of requirements (as captured in BriefBuilder) can easily be integrated in the building’s central, online...
We have extended the BriefBuilder knowledge base with an instruction video about BriefBuilder's requirements analysis feature. A simple but very useful feature. Typically, it is the design and engineering team that makes a requirements analysis. Before jumping into the design process, they go through all...
Defining good requirements is one thing. Integrating these into the design process is another. One of the advantages of BriefBuilder is that all requirements are captured in a digital model, which can be linked and integrated with a BIM model. Linking "as-required" data to "as-designed"...
We are very happy to announce that the Dutch ETZ hospital has decided to use Briefbuilder for the development and management of their requirements for the extension of their hospital complex in Tilburg (the Netherlands). This will be our 12th hospital project--we are getting the...
We have just added a new video to our knowledge base. The video explains how you can capture project objectives and design principles in BriefBuilder. Capturing this kind of information is somewhat a-typical for us because it often concerns fairly "fluffy" requirement texts, while BriefBuilder...
We are proud to announce that the Danish Road Directorate has decided to use BriefBuilder for the Nordhavn Tunnel Project in Copenhagen. Together with their lead consultant Rambøll, the Danish Road Directorate will use BriefBuilder to capture and define all requirements for the project and...