Question

Describe active design reviews and discuss their advantages

Answer 1

Q1) Describe active design reviews and discuss their advantages

Active Design Review Process:-

• Change from “general” review to a set of more focused reviews.

• Use questionnaires to actively engage the reviewer in using the design.

• More opportunities for one-on-one discussion between reviewer and designer

Steps for Active Design Review:-

• Prepare design and documentation for review.

• Identify for specialized reviews

• Identify the reviewers needed

• Design the questionnaires

• Conduct the review

Advantages:-

• can bring a greater breadth and depth of experience than is available within the project team or planning authority
• offers expert views that take account of a wide range of complex issues, and so helps to achieve sustainable development
• looks at schemes in context, and can challenge the design brief or the assumptions that lie behind the project.
• gives planners, developers and their design teams confidence that they have had the best possible independent advice on design quality. • supports and encourages good design and innovative proposals.
• identifies weak and inappropriate schemes at an early stage, when radical changes can be made with a minimum of wasted time and effort.
• offers opportunities for continued learning, particularly about how to assess design quality, to the people observing the review process.

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