Report from Construction Summit 2003 — Day Three
March 12th, 2003 by HalThe Construction Summit finished like it started. There was a hodge-podge of presentations. The one that kept my attention was on architectural engineering quality assurance. The presenter was from Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, SOM. (Skip the website; it is an annoying flash animation that is very difficult to navigate). The approach recommended harkens of the days of old fashioned after-the-fact quality control. Once the drawings or specifications have been completed then a group of experts check the work. I used to think that some QA was better than none, but no longer. Architectural engineering can learn from the agile software community. Pair programming could be a very useful model for pair engineering and pair architecture. It's bound to improve the quality of the work.
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