Design Added Value [electronic resource] : How Design Increases Value for Architects and Engineers / by Ömer Akın.

Part I: Introduction -- Capital Projects and Building Assessment -- A Celebrated Case of D-AV Analysis: Fallingwater -- Introduction to Value Based Design -- D-AV Analysis Methods -- Cost-Benefit with Risk Analysis -- Elicitation Methods: Structured Interview, Ethnographic Observation, Cognitive Walkthrough, Brainstorming, Prototypes -- Pre-Facto and Post-Facto Analysis -- Scaling with Ordinal Values, Sensitivity Analysis, Risk Analysis, Bayesian Probability and Benchmarking -- Optimization with Graphics, Calculus, Simplex Methods -- Expertise, Innovation, and Creativity in Design -- D-AV Analysis of Two Seminal Case Studies -- Swiss Re Tower: Analysis of a Seminal Case -- The Commerzbank Tower: Analysis of Another Seminal Case -- Selected Case Studies -- John Hancock Tower, Boston -- Kansas City Hyatt Regency -- Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, MO -- Crystal Palace, London -- Sydney Opera House -- Citicorp Tower, NY -- Appendix: Design-Added Value Methods for Analyzing Case Studies.

Design has intrinsic, economic value. To make this value tangible, design features of buildings need to be explored, measured, and taken into account when initiating projects and financing their construction. It is as calculable as the extrinsic value of a project. However, we need concepts, strategies, methods, techniques, and tools to do just that. The Value Based Design approach and Design-Added Value (D-AV) methodology in this book enables architects, engineers, contractors and owner-clients of buildings to benefit from extraordinary design and construction features. It explains the rationale and motivation for D-AV methodology, outlines and illustrates this methodology with examples, provides complete and detailed examples of how the key analysis techniques work through historical case studies, and describes specific methods used in application of the D-AV methodology, such as Bayesian statistics, cost benefit analysis, pairwise comparison techniques, cognitive walkthroughs, and optimization.