Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 20138. The information produced at Stages D, E and F1 varies widely depending onthe client, practice or project. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 aims to providegreater clarity on this subject.The RIBA Plan of Work is not a contractual document. Schedules of servicesand other contractual documents are used for contractual purposes.What are the main changes to the RIBA Plan of Work?On first sight, the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 appears to be a radical shift from theRIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007 (see the fold-out template at the back of thisbook). This is not the case. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 maintains the traditionof explaining to clients how the briefing, design, construction, maintenance,operation and in-use processes work by mapping key activities against projectstages. It still specifies the core activities undertaken at each stage. While theconcept is the same, four key points need to be digested in order to understandthe changes to the RIBA Plan of Work, before considering how it responds to theissues that have been highlighted:• The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 has eight stages and eight ‘task bars’. The taskbars define groups of related tasks that run across all the stages. This is a shiftfrom the 11 stages and two task bars (headed ‘Description of key tasks’ and‘OGC Gateways’) contained in the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007. The newstages and task bars are set out in detail in Chapter 2.• The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 has been developed as a template thatallows a bespoke practice- or project-specific Plan of Work to be createdvia www.ribaplanofwork.com. Selecting the correct task bar from the threevariable task bars for Procurement, Programme and (Town) Planning, and thusdefining your own practice- or project-specific Plan, is a crucial part of theRIBA Plan of Work 2013.• The eight stages have shifted from letters to numbers to avoid confusionin the change from eleven to eight stages and also to align with the unifiedwork stages agreed during discussion with representatives of the broaderconstruction industry.• The stages relating to tendering activities have been removed from the RIBAPlan of Work 2013, as these were specific to traditional procurement; however,they have been replaced by a Procurement task bar. Procurement and tenderingactivities therefore continue to be an important component of the RIBA Planof Work. Indeed, procurement activities now receive more attention as they areincluded at every stage.www.ribaplanofwork.com5
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