SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION ...

摘要

They say great ideas have three phases: first, they're ludicrous, then they're wrong and finally they're obvious. The late James Nisbet's invention of the elemental cost plan followed that trajectory fairly closely. These days, it is essential to any complex building: it enables the project team to have a disciplined conversation about cost, it makes benchmarking possible by making similar but different buildings comparable, and it allows anything with a cost implication to be related back to a single document. In other words, it's completely obvious. The weird thing is that this never struck anyone before.