Strategies for improving briefing framework: an evaluation study with industry practitioners

Abstract

Briefing is one of the important processes for capturing requirement knowledge from investor and user clients in the construction industry. In addition to briefing designers use various techniques and technologies to capture, identify, validate and track the client’s wishes and with these processes they apply them as requirements to develop projects. Developments on the information/knowledge technologies and researches for briefing frameworks affect the professional practice by giving capability and possibility to manage the increasing amount of knowledge and to implement them into building project through life cycle. The expertise and approaches of designer architects are important for developing strategies and methods on briefing, because of their acting role as industry practitioners. This study focuses on evaluation of architects for a briefing framework proposal via interviews. In the paper, first the theoretical background is explored and then interview structures and framework proposal is presented. Comments, suggestions and thoughts on benefits of industry practitioners are presented and discussed for stating important facts to develop a comprehensive briefing framework.