A new kind of
practice is emerging in architecture, engineering and construction. It is
changing how we make buildings and altering traditional roles and relationships
in the professions that make them. It is turning the challenges of increasing
speed, complexity, uncertainty and change into new opportunities for those
who can see them coming. It is called Integrated Services, and it is reshaping
professional practice in building design, engineering, contracting and ownership.
How Design-Build, Fast-Track and Life-Cycle Management are Reshaping Architecture, Engineering and Construction
George Elvin
W.W. Norton & Co. Press, 2005