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Stage 1 > Preparation and Brief: Supplementary Material: 1/SM1
Supplementary Material
1/SM1: Initial Project Brief checklist
An Initial Project Brief checklist relevant at the end of Stage 1 might include the
following:
General
• agreed project BIM protocols
• the client’s objectives, requirements and established priorities and criteria
• quality standards
• the client’s environmental policy
• life expectancy of building and components
• user client’s considerations
• access requirements, including disabled access
• security requirements
• health and safety policy
• budgets for security, energy and maintenance including cleaning (i.e. costs
in use)
• detailed functional requirements of direct client/user client
• site history, topography and geology
• preferred spatial relationships and orientation
• studies previously commissioned
• plans for future expansion
• exact location of boundaries
• other parties known to have expressed an interest, e.g. English Heritage, the
CABE team at the Design Council.
Planning and building considerations
• known constraints arising from previous consents or conditions
• likelihood of planning gain or Section 106 agreement
• impact of the local development plan
• leasehold/freehold interests and party walls, rights of light, access or other
known easements.
Environmental
• services below ground and known restrictions on development
• likely parking requirements
• likelihood of archaeological or antiquarian discoveries
• known road widening or development plans
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