BASICS Professional Practice: Project Planning

The main task of the classical architect is Project Planning, from basic evaluation to design all the way to execution planning, the call for bids, construction management, and completion of the building. This volume explains the individual planning steps in context, presents the networking of the various specialists involved in the project, and offers a clear and practical description of the various levels of organization. Organizing the plan: what is to be done?: Planning steps from basic evaluation to handing over the keys; Project participants (including the authorities, specialized planners, construction firms, etc.); Organizing the plan (sequence, what’s needed when?, work organization, documentation); Coordination of the participants.This volume explains the individual planning steps in context, presents the networking of the various specialists involved in the project, and offers a clear and practical description of the various levels of organization.Hartmut Klein is an architect based in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany.BASICS Architectural Series: At the beginning of one's architecture studies, there are many unknowns: what is really important? how do I brainstorm a design idea? how can this idea be depicted and ultimately implemented? BASICS is a series that imparts fundamental knowledge in compact individual volumes as well as in topical compendiums. It offers precise, step-by-step discussions, systematically covering the most important material pertaining to a given topic. Tailored to the needs of students, the series addresses all key subject areas, including design, architectural presentation, construction, professional practice, building services, landscape architecture, and urbanism.

The main task of the classical architect is project planning, from basic evaluation to design all the way to execution planning, the call for bids, construction management, and completion of the building. This volume explains the individual planning steps in context, presents the networking of the various specialists involved in the project, and offers a clear and practical description of the various levels of organization.

Themes are - Planning steps from basic evaluation to handing over the keys, - Project participants (including the authorities, specialized planners, construction firms, etc.), - Organizing the plan (sequence, what’s needed when?, work organization, documentation), - Coordination of the participants.

Explains, practically and in detail, the individual planning steps and various levels of organization, and puts them into context