Value Based Design Introduction

This course explores the fundamentals of project values, incentives and motivations as they relate to the diverse, sometimes conflicting, perspectives of a project’s stakeholders. The course hones students’ understanding of multifaceted issues required in problem solving and stakeholder collaboration to make a design project successfully relevant in the business world and society. Students learn proven methodologies in documenting and incorporating value into the ethos of the project delivery team’s thinking from design concept to construction completion. The course relies on case studies, building tours, and interviews with clients, architects and contractors, to advance the idea of balancing the principles of Return on Investment (ROI) with Return on Design (ROD).