TY  - CONF
TI  - Front-End Design and Value Generation: A Housing Project Analysis
AU  - Serugga, Joas
AU  - Etges, Bernardo Martim Beck da Silva
AU  - Bernardi, Ellen
AU  - Kagioglou, Mike
AD  - PhD Researcher, University of Huddersfield, UK, joas.serugga@hud.ac.uk, orcid.org/0000-0002- 5814-1522
AD  - PhD Candidate, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Partner at Climb Consulting Group, Brazil. bernardo.m.etges@gmal.com, orcid.org/0000-0002-3037-5597
AD  - Master Student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Partner at OSA, Brazil, ellen@ospa.com.br, orcid.org/0000-0001-9125-0344
AD  - Dean of School of Engineering, Western Sydney University, Australia, M.kagioglou@westernsydney.edu.au, orcid.org/0000-0003-3521-1484
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/06
T2  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
C3  - Proc. 28th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC)
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
SP  - 685
EP  - 696
DO  - 10.24928/2020/0064
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - There is an increasing interest in the role of Front-end Design (FED) as one of the vital stages of design processes. It is the stage in which project purposes and goals are defined, requirements captured, refined, and managed and trade-offs are made considering each consequence. It is also the stage where project requirements are transformed into design requirements for implementation by professional teams. FED sets the earliest opportunities for project collaboration to facilitate value generation and delivery. Decision making in this stage often affects most of the later processes in a project. Yet, little evidence and literature exist to support FED design process. This paper examines the role of FED in housing projects, and more specifically investigating one contemporary housing development case study in Porto Alegre-Brazil, exploring how FED facilitated value generation. The research found some evidence of value management in FED processes in the case study. It is also found that more research into user requirements capture and how these facilitate value generation is still required. This paper adds to the growing body of literature in this vital area stage of the design process.
KW  - Design
KW  - Front-End Design
KW  - Value
KW  - Trust and Collaboration
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1796/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1796
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -