At the start
Projects rarely lack will at the start. What they lack is orientation.
This is where needs are defined. Rethinking costs little.
Clarity
Which decisions are due now, and what it costs to put them off.
Responsibility
Who is responsible for what, and where gaps remain.
Relief
What can be left out or handed over.
Ordering complexity
Every building project is a system. Whoever knows the connections finds the way.
Needs, space, regulations, cost, time and people all depend on each other. What interests me is how to make these connections visible early and put decisions in the right order.
Technology connects systems. Organisation connects people.
My approach
About
Mateas Maric
On every building site, the same questions stayed with me: why does the design of our buildings so often come last? Why are budgets so rarely enough? And why does construction find it so hard to become more productive?
The answers rarely lay with individual people. Mostly they lay in how things work together: in decisions made too late, in responsibilities nobody clarifies, and in knowledge that gets lost between phases. Since then I have seen every building project as a system.
My fascination with building goes back to my apprenticeship as a joiner. I have worked on site, in design and tendering, and advised companies on digital project workflows. I completed my architecture degree at TU Wien while working full time.
Today my interest lies in the early phase. That is where the substance of a project is created, and where the course has to be set for it to reach its goal.
Happy to exchange ideas.
I am always glad to talk about building, design and how to handle complex projects. Write to me.