6.3 Suspended Ceiling Design Process - Bilkent University

while an aircraft or ship may have more than 10 6 parameters. There is
no available estimation of approximately how many parameters a
building may involve, but a really huge number is to be expected.
Consequently, to capture and manage all describing parameters in
building design may be unrealistic. Therefore, a selection should be
made depending on the purpose of the parameter deployment.
In Chapter 7, it was explained that the most important parameters in
building design are the ones that affect many other system components.
These critical elements were grouped into two: system parameters and
interface parameters. If the number of considered parameters is based
on these two groups, the number of parameters to be captured
considerably reduces.
8.2.2.3 Enabling the Widespread Use of the Method
The most common complaint the author of this dissertation got from
talking to the building design professionals about information
management in design was that they are so busy dealing with design
problems that they do not have the time to monitor the processes that
they undertake. In order to encourage the designers to spend time to
design management, this dissertation recommends that the proposed
method should be utilized as software.
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