RIBA's new Plan of Work under fire as A-L stages are scrapped

摘要

Practice Next week the RIBA's 50-year-old Plan of Work will be consigned to history. The familiar A-L work stages will be scrapped, replaced by eight new, numbered steps. Some practices have already geared up to use the new plan when it is officially launched on 21 May. But it is still unclear whether there will be widespread take-up and the reworked workflow has come in for criticism. Some architects claim the new plan is too vague, fails to address sustainability issues and is not specific enough for architects, based as it is on the Construction Industry Council (CIC) schedule of services.