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ANNEX 3 CASE STUDY DATA COLLECTION GUIDE
Design at the Heart of House-building
Case study data collection guide
1. Developer characteristics and practices
1.a. Developer name:
1.b. Key characteristics of the company (complete from the e-survey or summary sheet and fill in any gaps):
- Location of HQ:
- Scottish region where the company is most active:
- Number of homes completed in 2005/06:
- Market segment the company builds for (starter, mid, executive, other):
1.c. Brief history of company
1.d. How design is integrated into company structure (draw on semi-structured interview and complete as necessary during case study visit)
Include information on no. of architects in house and no. of architects bought in during last 12 months (from e-survey)
1.e. Company's approach to design (from semi-structured interview and complete as necessary)
1.f. Key lessons regarding how the company approaches the design process
2. Example of a particularly successful design process
2.a. Exemplar development
- Name of development:
- Location of development:
- Type of setting (urban, suburban, green belt, small town, rural):
- Type of site (Greenfield, brownfield, infill, gap site, refurbishment…)
2.b. Background to the process (arising from firm's aims & organisation, external bodies, the market, the site)
2.c. Main features that made the process of developing this site particularly interesting
2.d. Particular constraints and barriers, and how these were overcome
2.e. Illustrations:
- map showing site location
- aerial or general view of site including surrounding area
3. Relationship between design process and product
3.a. Exemplar development characteristics:
- site area:
- no of housing units:
- density:
- no. of different house types:
- no. of these which are standard house types:
- other:
3.b. If there are standard house types, what elements of the house are standard and in what ways, if any, have these standard house types been modified for this site?
3.c. Key features that make this development a 'good' product according to the developer
3.d. According to the developer, what effect have the design process and the way barriers have been overcome had on the product?
3.e. Illustrations:
- site layout plan;
- site cross-section if middle to high density or topographic issues;
- floor plans of 2 or 3 house types;
- elevations or photographs;
- other as relevant
(For one-off to standard case studies only)
3.f. How have the one-off design processes and products developed for this site been taken into mass production or production on other sites?
3.g. What have been the positive and negative impacts that have resulted from doing this?'
3.h. Have there been any difficulties or limitations in adapting these one-off processes and products to mass production? E.g. costs, materials and component availability, skills, specificity of design to individual site
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