Chapter 4: Achieving a Great Building: Construction Process and Cost Control

“The Mary Rose Museum”, the eight volume of “The Center for Environmental Structure Series” on architecture published by Oxford University Press, tells the story of how this large building was conceived and designed. In 1982, more than four hundred years after ...

A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...

Museum for Henry VIII's ship, sank in 1547, raised in 1982, and then preserved in a dry dock next to HMS Victory. The museum, with an area of construction of about 8,000 square meters, was to be built over dry ...