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... STUDY ISSUES AND OBJECTIVE The core issues of this study concern the value-added of design review processes and the appropriate role of facilities owners, particularly federal agencies, in such processes. The study objective was to identify a range of best practices and technologies that can be used by federal agencies and other owners to provide adequate management and oversight of design reviews throughout the facility acquisition process.
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... The use of metrics by federal agencies to measure the value-added of design review processes is not well established. Although research has been conducted by the Construction Industry Institute and other organizations to identify metrics that may be used to measure both the efficiency and the effectiveness of each phase of the facility acquisition process, the extent to which individual federal agencies measure design review processes and analyze results is highly variable.
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... establishment of a senior-level advisory group on federal facilities issues; (2) identification of a set of metrics that could be used to measure performance across all chases of the facility acquisition process: (31 an evaluation of current practices of federal agencies with regard to ~ ., ~ ~ , ~ ~ the standards, guidelines and policies supplied to architect/engineers in support of facility acquisition activities; and (4)


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