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Communicating requirements

A project brief is essentially a means of communication. Its key purpose is to communicate the client's needs and ambitions to the parties who will design, engineer and build the facility. As such, the client should give careful consideration to how requirements are worded and...

Time to do away with requirement texts?

Traditionally, requirements are captured in voluminous pdf documents—piles of them. At BriefBuilder we do this differently. We take a model-based approach. Sounds nerdy? Don’t worry. It's not. Or perhaps a bit. Let’s explain. Text versus model The AEC industry is undergoing a digital transformation, with artificial intelligence,...

What exactly is requirements management?

As it says on our website, BriefBuilder is a tool for requirements management. But what exactly is that? Definition The concept of requirements management (RM) is well established in other engineering disciplines such as software development and aerospace engineering, but still relatively new to the construction industry....