Requirements concerning a building’s technical systems can be quite complex. There are many of such systems—power systems, cooling systems, ventilation systems etc.—and few of these systems can be regarded as stand-alone systems. Many of them interface with others and their performance must be considered holistically....
Our co-founder Juriaan van Meel and NTNU's Kjersti Bjørkeng Størdal will soon publish the new edition of their briefing book, titled 'Construction Briefing: a Practical Guide'. The book is ready to be printed, but it will take some more weeks before it is ready for...
This week, 348 students from the School of the Built Environment of the Hogeschool Rotterdam started to work in BriefBuilder for their assignment on the topic of construction briefing. They were provided with a standard brief for a housing complex, captured in BriefBuilder. The assignment is...
We have just released an integration with Bricsys® 24/7, a cloud-based common data environment for document management and workflow automation. The integration allows project teams to link project documentation in Bricsys 24/7 to requirements and verifications in #BriefBuilder. Think of test reports, design proposals, permits, control...
We are excited to announce a new strategic partnership with LOGO InfraConsult, from Germany. LOGO is a leading German consulting and engineering company with a strong track record in airport development, corporate real estate and university real estate. They manage construction complex projects and have...
We are soon going to release a powerful new feature in BriefBuilder: Typicals The typicals feature will allow BriefBuilder users to easily manage the requirements of similar, frequently reoccurring objects in their projects. Think of patient rooms in hospitals, classrooms in schools, or road segments for infrastructure...
Yesterday, one of our co-founders, Juriaan van Meel, gave a lecturer about the topic of briefing (aka architectural programming) at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, for all 2nd year bachelor students. The lecture was about what briefing is, why it is...
BriefBuilder launches integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud Press release from BriefBuilder BriefBuilder’s new integration enables design teams and contractors to link requirements from the client’s brief to design and construction documentation in Autodesk Construction Cloud. Rotterdam, Sept 1 - BriefBuilder, an award-winning requirements management solution, today announced a...
Of late, BriefBuilder is being used in a lot of industrial and logistical projects such as manufacturing plants, storage facilities and distribution centers. Not that surprising because such projects tend to be heavy on requirements. This means that we are learning a lot of new things—e.g....