Clients' activities at the design front-end

Design Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 657-683

  Tzortzopoulos, Patricia ^a   Cooper, Rachel ^a   Chan, Paul ^b   Kagioglou, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

built environment; design activity; requirements capture

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN ACTIVITY; DESIGN PROCESSES; REQUIREMENTS CAPTURE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33749236079     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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