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Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013
people directly involved’. This Plan of Work was updated in 1967 and again in 1973.
In 1998 a major revamp was undertaken. The 12 stages were reduced to 11 by the
deletion of the ‘Completion’ stage and, although the general thrust of each stage
remained the same, only two stages retained their original titles. The 1998 RIBA
Outline Plan of Work defined ‘the work stages into which the process of designing
building projects and administrating building contracts may be divided’. This Plan
acknowledged that some variations to the work stages apply to design and build
procurement, although it did not set out what these variations might be. This Plan
was updated in 2007, with five stages renamed and additional descriptions of
the key tasks added along with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
Gateways, which were the old Government ‘checkpoints’, now renamed ‘UK
Government Information Exchanges’. More importantly, guidance was added on
how the Plan might be adapted to different forms of procurement, although the
Outline Plan of Work continued to relate to traditional procurement.
This brief synopsis of the Plan of Work’s history underlines its continual evolution
in response to changing trends. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 represents the next
significant evolutionary stage of the RIBA Plan of Work.
This Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 sets out the reasons behind the
fundamental changes, clarifies the amendments to the project stages, details
changes to the key tasks to be undertaken and provides additional narrative on
the core subjects that must be considered in relation to the RIBA Plan of Work
2013. More importantly, this guide sets out how the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 can
be used to assemble an effective project team. This shift in emphasis from the
design team to the project team is, in itself, one of the major cultural changes
that the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 acknowledges and reinforces.
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The principal purpose of the RIBA Plan of Work 2013, in line with its predecessors,
is explaining to clients the circular processes involved in a building project,
although these are expanded and adjusted to relate to the briefing, design,
construction, maintenance, operational and in-use processes involved in a
building project. Within this explanatory framework the stages continue to set
particular and specific boundaries for those involved in the process. While the
RIBA Plan of Work is devised by the RIBA, it is intended for use by all the parties
involved in a project.
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