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Project Collaboration
The Internet provides real opportunity for project collaboration. True collaboration, however, is more than just posting files and swapping messages — it is realizing project time savings by performing independent tasks concurrently rather than sequentially. It requires a successful history of working with multi-discipline teams. Our extensive experience with civil engineers, architects, government agencies and community groups makes us particularly successful participants on teams undertaking complex projects
Late Phase Collaboration
The impact of computer technology on design client expectations has accelerated and blurred the transitions between project phases. Communication technology allows faster and cheaper messaging, information sharing, workflow coordination, and similar sub-components of collaboration. In the past, most Internet-based exchanges were in the construction administration or bid negotiation phases. These late project phases efforts generally fail to address the much greater collaborative requirements of earlier, more design-centric project phases.
Design Phase Collaboration
To establish a virtual design team requires experience in the electronic medium of the web. It also requires that the project manager understand the additional coordination demands that derive from compressing timelines through tackling independent tasks in parallel rather than in series. Tinnea & Associates has the experience to undertake concurrent activities during the early design intensive programming and schematic design phases. The timesavings generated by this work approach allow greater attention during design development. This reduces changes during the construction document phase and requests for information during construction. |
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