In the second part of this two-part series, Serdar Dundar, a member of the Institution's Business Practice and Regulatory Control Committee, provides guidance on what to check and when using a structured checking framework that broadly follows the stages defined by the IStructE Structural Plan of Work and the RIBA Plan of Work. The article covers:
- Introduction
- What to check during the early design phase
- What to check during the concept design stage
- What to check during the detail design stage
- Preservation and record of design