SECTION V
The Design–Build Cycle
How many facility managers understand how a large architectural-engineering firm designs a major project? How many understand, from a builder's perspective, how a manufacturing facility is constructed? How has the need for sustainability and the desire to follow green building guidelines affected how we plan and design buildings? Without a good working knowledge of these dynamics, suboptimal projects will result, even using the most reputable of firms, because user input, through the facility manager, is an absolute requirement in good project planning.
As the industry has become increasingly specialized, the facility manager is becoming recognized as the one who ensures a satisfactory final product, ...
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