16. What our tenants say they want?
1. Repairs
2. Quality housing
3. Value for money
4. Being kept informed
5. Tenant enforcement
But what does this mean?
17. A culture of good design
Set a
clear Brief
Get the
team right
Get the
Process
right
Good Design
22. “Good design is not an optional extra, it is an integral
part of the success of any project”
“Well designed housing is a fundamental right of
everyone”
Raising the bar
•Context
•Clairty of design
•Architectural ambition
•Access and inclusion
•Sustainability
•Detailing and materials
•Maintenance
•Structure and services
23. Building for life
• Neighbourhood
• Place
• Home
‘Improving quality
of life through
design’
24. Great Places Project Journal
• Key briefing document, benchmarking,tracking and
learning tool
• Requires the team to agree outcomes at project
inception
• Revisit at key stages in the course of development
• Learning captured and fed back to future schemes
• GP Learning Group reviews
our ‘standard’ brief
PROJECT JOURNAL
Devon Street Oldham
PROJECT JOURNAL
Devon Street Oldham
25. Standard house plans
• Foolproof(?) way to avoid non-compliance
• House Plans not Types
• Still allows the designer lots of freedom
27. Get the team right
• A skilled team will optimise designs and
maximise value
• Team selection based on best value not
cheapest
• Get a mixture of experience and fresh ideas
• Past schemes are a good indicator (but a bad
scheme could be the clients fault)
31. Designers - OJEU Selection
• A legal requirement but also an opportunity to
see who’s out there
• Build knowledge sharing and joint research
events into the framework
32. Design Competitions
• Brings in ‘young blood’ and fresh
ideas
• Can be hard work and not always
suitable
• Assess the benefits before
committing
• Don’t presume what you will get
because you probably won’t get it
36. Design Champion – high level
commitment and guidance
• Promoting a design ‘culture’
• Reviewing new schemes
• Networking with CABE/Design
Council, HCA, RTPI etc.
• Research and development
• Updating standard brief and specs.
• Organising training and study visits
• Disseminating learning
• Selecting suitable design teams
37. Design Reviews
• Allows Architects to see
the work of their peers
• Lets development staff
know what their
colleagues are up to
• Helps improve
presentation skills in a
‘friendly’ environment
38. Design training
• Building for Life and Urban
design
• Sustainable development
• Off Site and ‘lean’ Construction
• BIM
• Renewable Technologies
• Specific Product presentations
• Planning and Building Regs
Design training isn’t just for
development staff!
40. The Learning Group – “It’s good to talk”
• Project Journal
• Learning from previous
mistakes
• Customer satisfaction
feedback
• Repairs and Asset
management feedback
43. Set a
clear Brief
Get the
team right
Get the
Process
right
Good Design
To Recap…
•External standards
•Internal standards
•Design specific brief
•Project journal
•Design Champion
•Design reviews
•Design training
•Study visits
Work with an agreed panel
Competitions bring fresh ideas
Partner with ‘good’ developers
Share knowledge between
consultants
Contractor is part of team
