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Philosophy: Full control of design quality

Journey of the Enterprise’s Development

The development of any company will undergo several processes, and each process has some characteristics. At the start-up stage, a company strives to survive, unselective about its projects, and has none of its core competitiveness formed yet, with its quality unstable; at the development stage, it strives for its size, somewhat selective about its projects, and has some of its core competitiveness formed, with its quality not enough stable yet; and at the mature stage, it strives for its quality, selective about its projects, and has its core competitiveness formed, with its quality stable. ZF, through nearly 30 years of development, has already reached the mature stage of quality pursuit basically.

The Core Content of the “Full control of design quality”

The concept of the “Full control of design quality” covers the whole process of design, including project scheming, architectural planning, architectural design, interior design, landscape design and all other design procedures. And there, for example, the architectural, interior, landscaping design procedures again include conceptual design, detailed design, construction drawing design, and late-phase coordination etc. Architects strive to have all the procedures mutually coordinated and in line with each other, and by participating in the whole process design or in the control design, achieve the entire beneficial result of 1+1＞2,.

The Full control of design differs from the design general contracting in that it is broader and more flexible, closer to the status quo of current Chinese architectural practices, also enables architects to focus on the professional scope sometimes rather than managerial affairs.

The In-depth Consideration of the “Full control of design quality”

Considering the complexity of building construction process, the dominance of design, and furthermore the elaborated division of design, the omission of even one procedure will result in an irreparable regret to a project. Overseas the architect-dominating system is already quite mature over many years of operation, while domestically the developer-dominating situation marginalizes architects, and as becoming the key of project success, the top-quality architecture whole-process control can help developers grasp every aspect of a design and construction project.

The Implementation Mechanism of the “ Full control of design quality”

Each phase of architectural design is divided into several control nodes, the specific control criteria for each node is prepared, checks are made step by step via design management, and architectural design is made controllable and high-quality within the whole process scope. The intersections of each phase of architectural design with indoor, landscape, curtain wall, lighting, plane and other detailed design specialties are combed clearly, the control objective for each intersection is prepared, and the whole process design is made controllable and high-efficient via the checkup of architectural design and related specialties.

The Concrete Practice of the “Full control of design quality”

ZF has already achieved satisfactory practice effects in Huangpu Center, Jiaxing Run Garden, Hangzhou Harmonious Garden and Suzhou Zhuyuan Hotel and other projects in recent years.

The Long-range Strategy of the “Full control of design quality”

At first the practice regulations and sample projects of the top-quality architecture whole-process control design are established. The second step is to make the conception of the top-quality architecture whole-process control design cover all the qualified projects of ZF. The final objective is to make the top-quality architecture of ZF more original, creative and epochal, and let ZF become a domestic creative design company with global outlook.