{"id":2568,"date":"2019-05-14T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:34:24","slug":"time-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/time-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>3 Minute, 34 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n<p>At terra firma we are currently working on many school\nprojects, some of which are independent and self-funding, some which are part\nof Department for Education refurbishment and \/ or new build schemes. The\nlatter can be a great experience but also an immensely frenetic time. I have a point\nto raise about these, aimed at a process rather than a person or company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many team members thrive on a fast-paced multi-disciplinary\ninteraction with a speedy outcome and enjoy the informative discussions with\ndedicated education professionals. As landscape architects, we are often\njettisoned in at the eleventh hour\u2026 feasibility study undertaken with control\noption having been developed over much deliberation, possibly with the thoughts\nof developing a free school mulled over for years prior to starting the process\nwith the DfE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet then we rush along at a breakneck pace through the ITT\nsubmission and accompanying CEM (Client Engagement Meeting) process to develop\na scheme from feasibility to a point where costs are nailed down and the scheme\nis developed to such a stage that it can be approved to move forward to a\nplanning application. All this in a 6-week period, sometimes running from the\nmoment of appointment through to ITT submission without let up. Worse still,\nthis can be a competitive situation and there may be no prize of a project at\nthe end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is little time to spare. CEM#1 and we are to interrogate the brief and control option, asking the questions. You can read everything in advance and get lost in the endless appendices which turn out to be dry appointment contracts or endless lists of legacy items, but can you really learn about the project \u2013 to truly understand what the school are striving for \u2013 in an instant? CEM#2 and options and ideas are presented; we are already expecting instant decisions to be made to enable firm designs to be drawn up for confirmatory acceptance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image01.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image01-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><em>CEM process timetable extracts courtesy of Noviun Architects<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CEM#3 Structural solutions, FFE layouts, BB103 compliance, transport issues. CEM#4 IT solutions, M&E strategies. CEM#5 Finalised landscape proposals, access strategies, with every CEM underpinned and dominated by the building layout \u2013 the SOA (Schedule of Adjacencies); a rigid DfE tool dictating areas per pupil for every space inside the building. The architect wrestles to design something unique \u2013 to put their mark on it \u2013 to design a \u2018keeper\u2019 for the school to fall in love with \u2013 this is a long-term relationship between school and developed building being forged in 6 weeks flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time of other things in this process? Other projects?\nR&D? Training and CPD? Admin that keeps a practice going. Life? Possibly if\nthe process runs smoothly. Worse if there are shortfalls in the control option\nthat need addressing. But where is the time to think? To ponder alternatives?\nTo develop a design that really works? If the team had 3 months, this might be\nallowed for; it would be a start; I\u2019m not asking for a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But DfE timescales are partly driven by political desire to build,\ntherefore showing rapid progress and improvement in the government\u2019s education system\noffer and alleviate conditions in many schools. It\u2019s my understanding that timescales\nmay have been originally intended to be longer in initial DfE iterations.\nTimescales are also kept short to keep project costs down to competing teams;\ntreasury allocations for DfE budgets are also given a limited window of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my point: working to the DfE timescale are we\nletting down the group of people who need our design skills the most \u2013 the\nCustomer? The idea of a new free school may have been nurtured over years,\ndeveloping the idea with the community, and with the DfE assisting in the\ndelivery in the latter stages of the process. The feasibility stage for a\nproject is set by the DfE at 16 weeks. And then we ride roughshod over all this\nwith a six-week process. \n\n\n\nOr through determination\nand enthusiasm, as well as late nights, by consistently managing to meet the 6-week\nCEM timescale, are we all perpetuating the problem? The pressure is on and\nteams continue to deliver\u2026\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image02.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image02-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption> <br><em>CEM process timetable extracts courtesy of Noviun Architects<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n        <div class=\"booster-block booster-reactions-block\">\n            <div class=\"twp-reactions-icons\">\n                \n                <div class=\"twp-reacts-wrap\">\n                    <a react-data=\"be-react-1\" post-id=\"2568\" 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