Arch 416/616 Mgmt 716

Design and Construction Project Delivery Innovation

Instructor: Barbara White Bryson

E-mail: bwbryson@rice.edu

Phone: 713-348-5151

Office Hours: By Appointment

Arch 416 / 616 Mgmt 716

Design and Construction Project Delivery Innovation

216 Jones Graduate School of Management

Tues 7:00 – 9:50 p.m.

 

Schedule:

 

January 17                      Introduction

 

January 24                      Lecture:                          Managing Quality, Budget & Schedule                 

Work Session:                 Process Mapping

Assignment:                    Egg Drop Device

                                     Read Refabricating Architecture – Argument, Chapters I and II, pgs. 1-47

                                                                             

January 31                      Guest Lecturer: Chuck Thomsen, CEO of 3DI

“The Design and Construction Industry and ‘Rotation’”

                                       Work Session:                 Egg Drop Device Test

Barriers to Change

                                       Assignment:                    Architect Interviews

                                                                              Read Architect – Preface, Chapters 1&2, pgs. 1-58

 

February 7                      Lecture:                          Risk Avoidance & Damage to the Industry

                                       Work Session:                 Defining the Existing Industry                                                                       Assignment:                    Design Process Maps

                                                                              Review Project Delivery Systems for Construction      

                                                                

February 14                   Guest Lecturer               Mike Kenig – Exec. VP,Holder Construction & Georgia Institute of Technology

                                       “Project Delivery-Existing Options”

                                       Work Session:                 Review Design Process Maps

                                       Assignment:                    Contractor Interviews

                                                                              Read Architect, Chapters 3 & 4, pgs. 59-123

 

February 21                    Guest Lecturer:  TBD                   

Work Session:                 Focusing Change

Assignment:                    Construction Process Maps

                                       Read Architect, Chapters 5, 6 & 7, pgs. 124-237

 

February 28                    Guest Lecturer:  Scott Simpson – President, Stubbins & Assoc.

“Changing the Design Process”

Work Session:                 Process Exercises

                                       Review Construction Process Maps

Assignment:               2 page paper on “Because we have always done it this way in the Design and Construction Industry” or “This is a Service Industry…or Not”

                                                                         Read Refabricating Architecture, Chapters 3 & 4, pgs. 49 - 101

            

March 7                          Lecture:                          Strategic Management

Service and Process Gaps in the Industry

                                       Work Session:                 Discuss Project Ideas

Assignment:               Draft Project Idea with 1 Page Summary

                                     Read Refabricating Architecture, Chapters 5, 6 & 7, pgs. 103-173

 

March 14                      Spring Break

 

March 21                       Guest Lecturer:              Bob Workman  - CEO of BSW Architects and BOX Master Builders

                                       Work Session:                 Discuss Project Proposals

                                       Assignment:                    3 page Final Project Proposals

 

March 28                        Guest Lecturer:  Kathy Jones – Client Executive, Linbeck

                                                                          “Lien Construction”

                                       Work Session:                 Review Project Proposals

                                       Assignment:                    Project Development

 

April 4                              Guest Lecturer:  John Kennedy – Kennedy, Rossi, Linbeck & MIT

                                                                              Entrepreneurship

Lecture:                          Research in a Customer Service Environment

                                       Work Session:                 Discuss Projects

                                       Assignment:                    Present Project Outlines

 

April 11               Guest Lecturer:  Brett Zamore - KIT

                                                                              “Innovation in Housing Delivery” 

Lecture:                          Change Management

                                       Work Session:                 Review Project Outlines

                                       Assignment:                    Project Development

 

April 18               Preliminary Project Reviews

 

April 25               No Class

 

Week of May 1   Final Presentation to “The Forum”