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Integrated approach to construction design can be one of the ways to enhance economic efficiency of a building. Such opinion was voiced by the speakers of UREC Innovation Conference 2013, which was held in Inkom BC on September 12. If all project stakeholders are involved in the process at the earliest stage of design, in the experts’ opinion, this enables not only correct evaluation of the project’s economic aspects, but also reduction of its implementation timeframe.
As industry experts emphasize, despite all the difficulties for the developer inherent in integrated design, such approach is becoming exceedingly more relevant in the real estate market ofUkraine. The reasons for its popularity include the capabilities of more accurate budgeting and project implementation time planning.
Thus, the involvement of not only design engineers and developers, but also of suppliers and contractors in the process of construction design will enable integrity of all systems in a building and their operational optimization. According to Oleg Klimenko, Incom Vice-President, «the earlier interaction between all the project parties is arranged, and the earlier the developer and design engineer determine the intended purpose of a building, the more efficient can be the use of all subsystems in the building – they will be easier to unify and systemize. Consequently, this will reduce the costs of utility systems in the building both at the construction, and at the operation stages».
On the other hand, a number of extra difficulties for a developer are inherent in integrated approach to construction design. In particular, it is about ongoing search for compromises – decisions to satisfy all parties involved in the process, which have their interests in the project. Apart from that, if a team of specialists is set up at early project development stages, this invariably results in additional costs on the customer’s part.
As noted by Igor Guriev, CEO, SOLID Group: «The key common interest of all the project stakeholders is the implementation of an effective building. It is not worth saving on design and use of innovative solutions: by saving some amount converted to square meters, a developer may lose overall building efficiency, and the building is primarily a business. Even if the developer withdraws from the project, he will sell not just an object, but also a business. And the more efficient it is the higher value it will have».
Apart from integrated approach, in the experts’ opinion, other factors that may enhance economic efficiency of a building are conceptual architectural and space planning solutions, the use of automated building management system in the object, as well as energy efficient solutions.
Over the course of UREC Innovation Conference-2013, the real estate market players discussed new construction solutions for commercial real estate, up-to-date approaches in utility systems management, the effect of navigation in a shopping mall upon positive image making of a retail facility, as well as the impact of conceptual lightening on emotional branding.
The speakers at the first New Construction session of the Conference were: Igor Guriev, SOLID Group; John Fotiadis, John Fotiadis Architect; Roman Kurashev, the Ukrainian Steel Construction Center (USCC); Oleg Lysiuk and Victoria Neroda, BDC. In the course of the second New Technologies sessionOleg Klimenko, Inkom; Andrei Rybalka, Samsung Electronics Ukraine; Aleksei Takhistov, Siemens Ukraine; Andrei Yatsentyuk and Anita Stampfl, MK Illumination, shared their opinions about the growth of innovations.
