OK, so what IS Design Led Construction™?

Design Led Construction™ is intended as an integrated approach to construction procurement that sets out a way of working designed to promote co-operation rather than division within the various elements that make up the construction industry.
Specifically, and most importantly, it sets out an approach where design team and contracting team work collaboratively during the project. The process understands the balance of risk and responsibility, and the way that this balance changes radically during the course of a project, and seeks to define a framework which recognises this, and which allows the shifts to occur as a managed part of the process, understood from the outset, avoiding unnecessary risk and adversarial situations.



It is also an approach that seeks to address the problem of the client who has only limited knowledge of  construction. By presenting clients with a roadmap at the beginning of the project, and with team members who are all signed up to the roadmap, and by actively seeking to clarify risk at an early stage, it is hoped that many of the issues that arise with 'naive' clients can be avoided.
Of course, you're going to need a great deal more detail - look in the section: What is Design Led Construction™?' to the right for more. The pages there will be developed and maintained as the current description of the DLC™ approach. That's right; "the current description" - DLC™ is not a finished project, it is a work in progress; although we believe we have thought the whole process through, we are equally sure that there will be many ways to improve it.
For this to mean something, it will need the engagement of a range of people from all parts of the industry. Please do feel free to have your say - look for weak points, and suggest improvements/alternatives - please!