Our head of R&D, Juriaan van Meel, was in Leuven (Belgium) to give a lecture for the post-grad course on real estate development of the KU Leuven. The topic was briefing and requirements management. Juriaan started his lecture with a heuristic from a recent paper by prof....
Our co-founder Juriaan van Meel and NTNU's Kjersti Bjørkeng Størdal will soon publish the new edition of their briefing book, titled 'Construction Briefing: a Practical Guide'. The book is ready to be printed, but it will take some more weeks before it is ready for...
This week, 348 students from the School of the Built Environment of the Hogeschool Rotterdam started to work in BriefBuilder for their assignment on the topic of construction briefing. They were provided with a standard brief for a housing complex, captured in BriefBuilder. The assignment is...
Yesterday, one of our co-founders, Juriaan van Meel, gave a lecturer about the topic of briefing (aka architectural programming) at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, for all 2nd year bachelor students. The lecture was about what briefing is, why it is...
Yesterday, our very own Jade van Zeeland gave a lecture about the topics of systems engineering (SE) and requirements management (RM) for civil engineering students of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. She explained the overall philosophy behind these concepts and she explained the practicalities of making...
We have made a 'quick & dirty' analysis of the amount of requirements per project for a selection of construction projects (buildings, infrastructure, industrial structures). What we saw is that the number of requirements relates to the project's scope, type of tender, phasing and the...
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...