What is Stage 3 in the RIBA Plan of Work?

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What is Stage 3 in the RIBA Plan of Work?

Stage 3 is Spatial Coordination. After the concept design, this stage brings together the architectural, structural, and services layouts, ensuring they fit within the spaces as intended, resolving clashes, and producing coordinated design outputs that can be taken forward into technical design. The goal is to align spatial relationships and interfaces across disciplines so the design can be developed further with confidence. The other options describe earlier or non-existent stages: Concept Design corresponds to the previous stage, Preparation and Brief is the initial stage, and Build & Inspect isn’t a formal stage in the Plan of Work.

Stage 3 is Spatial Coordination. After the concept design, this stage brings together the architectural, structural, and services layouts, ensuring they fit within the spaces as intended, resolving clashes, and producing coordinated design outputs that can be taken forward into technical design. The goal is to align spatial relationships and interfaces across disciplines so the design can be developed further with confidence.

The other options describe earlier or non-existent stages: Concept Design corresponds to the previous stage, Preparation and Brief is the initial stage, and Build & Inspect isn’t a formal stage in the Plan of Work.

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