Balancing Flexibility & Cost in Facility Design to Mitigate Risks of Misalignment
Time: 8:40 am
day: Conference Day Two
Details:
- Outlining best practices for team collaboration in evaluating lifecycle value, avoiding overdesign, and making prudent real estate and infrastructure decisions that serve both immediate and future needs
- Exploring tools and frameworks for assessing the financial and schedule impacts of design flexibility, and how to communicate those trade-offs clearly to stakeholders
- Reaffirming how development, operations, finance, and design teams can jointly manage uncertainty, ensuring that flexibility enhances, rather than undermines, project outcomes
