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Assessment tool
The version of DQI used by stakeholders when they assess a design or a completed building.
BREEAM
Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Mechanism. A method for assessing the environmental sustainability of a building.
Briefing assessment
A special version of the DQI Assessment tool which is part of the Briefing tool and typically used to assess your existing building
Briefing record
The document produced by the DQI facilitator as an outcome to using the briefing tool
Briefing tool
The part of DQI used at the briefing stage and involves firstly using the assessment tool to look at an existing building, and then record priorities in a briefing record. BSF
Building Schools for the Future Programme.
Build Quality
One of the three main sections of the DQI questionnaire and deals with how well the building is constructed, its structure, fabric, finishes and fittings, its engineering systems and the co-ordination of all these and how well they perform.
Bulk upload tool
A feature which DQI leaders can use to enter data from paper-based questionnaires and upload to the DQI or DQI for Schools tool.
CABE
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. The government's advisor on architecture, urban design and public space.
CIC
Construction Industry Council.
DCSF
Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
Government legislation promoting civil rights for disabled people and protecting disabled people from discrimination.
DQI
Design Quality Indicator
DQI Facilitator
An unbiased, trained building professional who mediates between the supply side and the demand side groups of a building project at the DQI workshops.
DQI Leader Key
This is the 8 digit piece of code that is purchased in order to register a project and use the online tools.
DQI Leader
Person responsible for championing the DQI process, leading stakeholders through the DQI process and ensuring outcomes of DQI workshops are implemented in the project.
DQI Workshops
Sessions where the supply and demand side groups of a building project can communicate opinions and exchange ideas about a new building or refurbishment. These sessions are mediated by a DQI Facilitator and rely on the online tools to harvest opinions and open discussions.
DQI Process
An on-going assessment of a building project from its conception to a point after its completion. It is a journey that is enabled through facilitated workshops and use of online tools.
DQI Respondent Key
The eight digit piece of code generated once a DQI project is successfully registered. This is the key that respondents use to access the DQI questionnaire.
Existing building assessment
A special version of the Assessment tool used during the briefing process to assess participants existing building.
Functionality
One of the three main subsections of the DQI questionnaire focusing on the arrangement, quantity and inter-relationship of spaces and how the building is designed to be useful.
Impact
The last of the three main sections of the DQI questionnaire focusing on a building’s ability to delight, to intrigue, to create a sense of place, and uplift the local community and environment. Also the design’s contribution to the arts and science of building and architecture.
OGC Gateways
Public sector clients use OGC Gateways to check all the necessary tasks have been completed at different stages of building projects. OGC gateways are, 0 - Strategic assessment, 1 - Business justification, 2 - Procurement strategy, 3A - Design brief and concept approval, 3B - Detailed design approved, 3C - Investment decision, 4 - Readiness for service and 5 - Benefits evaluation
Online questionnaires
See ‘online tools’.
Online Tools
There are two distinct tools: the briefing tool and the assessment tool. Stakeholders in a workshop use the tools to understand their priorities and to rate a design.
RIBA stages
Building projects exist in 5 distinct stages defined by RIBA, these are further subdivided into 11 sub stages, each of which is given a letter from A-L. The main stages are Preparation (sub stages A and B), Design (C, D and E), Pre-Construction (F, G and H), Construction (J and K), and Use (L). RIBA building stages are used by architects, engineers and contractors to plan the building project
Respondent
A stakeholder who is asked to complete a DQI questionnaire.
Target line graph
This is a type of graph used to compare data from the Briefing tool with data from the Assessment tool to see how well a design is achieving its target.
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