Enclosure Design Documents for New Construction       

In new construction, Construction Documents for the building enclosure are commonly prepared by the Architect of Record, often with peer review by a Building Enclosure Consultant.  
We ask a great deal from enclosures today - complexity, performance, efficiency - yet detail work often only concentrates toward the end of the construction document preparation process, and the risks related to rushing details can be high.
Many other design disciplines produce Construction Documents complementary to an Architect's set as standard practice - perhaps it is coming time for the Building Enclosure discipline to do the same more broadly.
In Washington Sate, legislation requires enclosure consultants to effectively acta s designer of record and produce stand alone documents for condominium projects. This has led to the growing adoption of a standalone set of building-enclosure-related Construction Documents (herein referred to as a "BE Set") for mid- and high-rise multifamily condo and apartment design, and increasingly for commercial and institutional design as well. Given the recent emergence of BE Seats and the Building Enclosure design discipline, expectations for construction documents vary within the industry and among stakeholders.
In this presentation, Han Salzmann and Brad Carmichael with 4EA Building Science, intend to place the emergence of the Building Enclosure design discipline within the historical context of other design professions and provide a process overview and guidance for incorporating a BE Set into Construction Documents. It will include lessons learned ad benefits for broader adoptions in construction beyond Washington State.