Comments on: What is design management? Managing design in practice

By: Konrad Naborczyk

Konrad Naborczyk — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:25:46 +0000

In reply to Carolina Werner. Thank you for your comment and for sharing your experience Carolina! It is very interesting to learn that in the end, we have similar challenges as construction design managers, regardless of the country where we work. And that there is still a lot of work to do in order to ensure that all the stakeholders have the same understanding of the role and the responsibilities of the design manager.

By: Carolina Werner

Carolina Werner — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:10:48 +0000

I think Design Manager roles are gaining more visibility globally.
I have been working over 10 years in Design Offices over several countries in Latin America and my role “title” never was quite right, it was always short some how or my boss would use a couple of titles to introduce me to clients – “She is the PM and Designer Lead of the project”.
And I been working as a Design Manager for the last few years and have to say that the Design Process are much more streamline since I have a proper “accountability” over the whole process.
And you are totally correct, the task that I usually need to take over or dedicate into more is BIM Management (another role that definitely need more visibility and acknowledgement).

By: Konrad Naborczyk

Konrad Naborczyk — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:31:43 +0000

In reply to Liz. Thank you for the comment Liz! I am glad that somebody can find it useful:-)

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:10:11 +0000

My contractor side design manager is very good and provides an excellent example of what a design manager does. Your article is 100% correct. Thankyou for the write-up!

By: Konrad Naborczyk

Konrad Naborczyk — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:49:56 +0000

In reply to Andi.

Thank you for the feedback Andi! In which country do you work? And what is your current position?

From my experience, the design manager should be on a project regardless if the BIM is used or not. The DM should coordinate the design activities and, if models and BIM is used, needs to closely cooperate with the BIM manager or BIM coordinator on the project.

Hence it is necessary that the DM has an overview of the whole project life cycle and understanding the value of BIM, VDC, Lean construction and other methods and tools that can be used in order to achieve higher efficiency and deliver the project according to time, schedule and quality.

By: Konrad Naborczyk

Konrad Naborczyk — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:36:45 +0000

In reply to David Murphy. Thank you for the comment David! I have been wondering since I have started in this position: why isn't there more information about the design management? Any ideas on that?:-) What is the name of your current position? Where do you work at the moment: in a design office, as a contractor or a client / investor?

By: Andi

Andi — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:41:04 +0000

This is interesting topic, contract engineer is common in my country to cover above roles however i understand the capacity of BIM to handle is too big, hence i do agree design management is a big help. from where i can see this role most likely to shadow almost every roles that utilize BIM which i find overlapping with other perhaps more elaboration on which far their roles extend might help to ensure keeping single decision maker to avoid issues.

By: David Murphy

David Murphy — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:12:25 +0000

Please continue with this. This is basically my job and there isnt much info out there.