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Figure 3.4 Designer and implementing agent’s view of the “Solution Space”.
Figure 3.5 Optimal “Solution Space” that all must agree on before work starts – the actual solution must fall within the Optimum “Solution Space”.
Traditionally, the users and the client do not like risks. They insist on a solution which has a proven track record – a solution that has already been used somewhere else, - and impose this upon designer and the implementing agent as a requirement. This is almost never the “Optimal” solution in figure 3.6. The users and the client didn’t take too much risk and innovation was not the order of the day.
Faced with dwindling resources and more stringent regulatory requirements as well as the need to find solutions which have a smaller environmental footprint the users and clients of today have learned that there is room for improvement and that a better solution than the traditional one typically always exists. As a result modern users and clients have different ways for making a contract and now the functional properties that the construction needs to meet are specified and the designer and the implementing agent are given freedom to innovate and the possibility to work with new materials and methods to come up with the “OPTIMUM” solution (Figure 3.6). In this the risk is transferred to the designer and the implementing agent and the users and the client do not carry any risk what so ever.
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