8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Building a Culture of Quality
8:10 am Cementing Quality as a Cultural Goal Rather Than Policy Driven Process
Synopsis
- Promoting personal integrity among designers’ work as a means to encourage an increase in quality at an institutional level
- Building Quality Champions: Preventing the compromise of quality checks through active team engagement in quality, emphasized by project managers
- Working with firm leadership to create personal goals and development targets that reinforce consistent quality implementation
8:50 am Is Clash Detection Enough? Advance your BIM Quality Program with Solibri
Synopsis
- Communicating the importance of BIM Quality to project teams
- Defining and establishing Quality standards for your BIM
- Implementing comprehensive Quality checks beyond clash detection throughout your BIM workflows
9:00 am Audience Discussion: Securing Senior Leadership Buy-In to Lay the Foundations a More Successful QA/QC Program
Synopsis
- Identifying the best metrics to support your business case for increasing resources to your quality management program
- Educating senior leadership on the long-term benefits, such as saved time and money due to a higher upfront quality, and therefore less RFIs during construction
- Discovering the most impactful actions leadership can take to promote firm-wide buy-in
9:40 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking
Maintaining a Quality Focus
10:20 am Integrating Quality into the Daily Operations of Project Teams to Ensure Consistency in Adoption
Synopsis
- Benchmarking best practices that help integrate QA and QC into the natural design development process
- Finding ways to keep Quality front of mind despite conflicting time and cost pressures
- Building stronger integrations between Quality and Design personnel to be seen and utilized as a positive resource for technical knowledge and learning
11:00 am Panel: Adapting Design Workflows When Working to Compressed Schedules to Prevent Quality Being Marginalized
Synopsis
- Supporting teams to prioritize the most important aspects of design documentation to prevent large mistakes or omissions
- Identifying areas of the quality process that can be dialled back, better integrated or redacted to shorten traditional timelines
- Evaluating other areas of the design process where time can be saved or activities reworked to ensure there is still the appropriate amount of time for Quality activities
- Understanding how software can be used to expedite quality execution
11:40 am Navigating Change When Introducing New Tools & Processes to Maintain Buy-In & Ensure Adoption
Synopsis
- Establishing a consistent procedure for the introduction of new QA/QC tools
- Developing a manageable roadmap for project teams on the integration of new tools into existing workflows
- Building effective feedback loops to ensure the continuous improvement of new tools being adopted
12:20 pm Lunch Break
Tracking Quality
1:20 pm Case Study: Exploring Strategies to Track Process Implementation & Ensure Continuous Improvement of Your Program
Synopsis
- Finding ways to track quality implementation without lots of additional work for teams
- Working with design leadership to reinforce the importance of data collection and to continue to improve data input
- Reviewing data collected to identify areas for improvement
2:00 pm Panel: Benchmarking Strategies to Ensure Effective Implementation of Your Program Without Creating a Culture of ‘Policing Staff’
Synopsis
- Maintaining a healthy working relationship between Quality and Design leadership to gain honest feedback on Quality implementation
- Mitigating communication challenges to effectively provide feedback on the gaps in teams’ work
- Benchmarking approaches to track quality implementation when you don’t have an extensive auditing system
Leveraging AI & Technology for Quality
2:40 pm Empowering Staff to Harness Technology Effectively, Without Over Reliance or Complacency to Minimize Design Errors & Subsequent RFIs
Synopsis
- Ensuring universal understanding of the limitations of software and the role of the responsible architect
- Increasing resources for training on advanced design software, without taking away from designers already busy schedules
- Maintaining an architect’s practical skillset in the face of technology that has the power to automate tasks
3:20 pm Afternoon Refreshments
3:50 pm Panel: Exploring How AI Can Be Used to Improve Design Quality & Increase the Efficiency of Your Teams
Synopsis
- Figuring out where the value lies for AI in Quality Management, helping to increase accuracy, speed and higher quality work
- Gaining control over vast amounts of project data to enable effective application of the technology
- Addressing the challenges of using AI in architecture, including the potential impact on professional responsibility, licensing, and liability, and how you can mitigate these
Implementing QA/QC Programs
4:30 pm Bridging the Gap Between Design Documentation & Specifications to Improve Coordination of Teams & Reduce Inconsistencies
Synopsis
- Overviewing the issues that can arise from having two separate teams create drawings and specifications
- Encouraging early initiation of technical document creation to streamline development and enhance consistency
- Harnessing technology platforms to integrate development of both elements and ensure coordination throughout the process
5:10 pm Utilizing Interdisciplinary Reviews (IDR) to Improve Design Collaboration
Synopsis
- Evaluating traditional versus electronic review methods and software options
- Enhancing interdisciplinary design collaboration for remote and in-office design teams
- Exploring the advantages and limitations of parallel/concurrent processing and serial processing
- Discovering common failures and best practices for interdisciplinary design reviews.