Yesterday, our very own Jade van Zeeland gave a lecture about the topics of systems engineering (SE) and requirements management (RM) for civil engineering students of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. She explained the overall philosophy behind these concepts and she explained the practicalities of making...
How to define, analyse and verify requirements for construction projects with BriefBuilder? We have developed an online course that gives you all the answers. It guides you step-by-step through BriefBuilder's key functionalities. It is an excellent start for those who have just started using BriefBuilder...
A TV studio?! BriefBuilder has been used in a wide diversity of projects (schools, roads, tunnels, hospitals, even prisons), but never in something as glamorous (and complex) as a TV studio. That has changed now. A consortium of Belgian construction companies, led by Willemen Construct, the Jan De...
We have made a 'quick & dirty' analysis of the amount of requirements per project for a selection of construction projects (buildings, infrastructure, industrial structures). What we saw is that the number of requirements relates to the project's scope, type of tender, phasing and the...
Idverde NL selects BriefBuilder as its requirements management tool! Idverde is Europe’s leading provider of grounds maintenance services and landscape creation projects. They will use BriefBuilder for the definition and verification of specifications for a diversity of objects, varying from river banks and harbour areas,...
The BriefBuilder team is excited to welcome the daa (Dublin Airport Authority) as a customer! The daa is a global airports and travel retail group with businesses in 16 countries. They are owned by the Irish State and headquartered at Dublin Airport. With large and complicated projects ahead for Dublin Airport,...
BriefBuilder is now also available in German. Germany is obviously a large market and it has a great tradition for briefing (Bedarfsplanung) and requirements management (Anforderungsmanagement) for both building and infrastructure projects. So, it was about time we launched a German version! Key words: #anforderungsmanagement#bedarfsplanung#raumundfunktionsprogramm#raumprogramm#nutzerbedarfsprogramm ...
Construction projects are made up of many kinds of systems (access systems, lighting systems, climate control systems, etc), which need to work closely together for the project to be successful. That sounds obvious, but in practice much effort is spent on designing individual systems, while...
We have contributed to the Designing Buildings Wiki with an article about requirements management for construction projects, which can be found here. The article explains what requirements management (RM) is, why it is important, and what it entails. It explains briefly the following RM activities: >...
Our co-founder Juriaan van Meel gave a lecture about construction briefing at Leuven University, on their post-graduate course on real estate. He discussed the purpose of briefing, the relation between briefing and design, and different kinds of briefs (the strategic, functional and technical brief). He...