Managing Risks Related to Functional Changes by Design Alliance

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new model to manage risks related to functional changes. The model integrates users in the building design process through an open building based design approach Design Alliance (DA). The main conclusion is that building owner can manage the risks related to changing functions by DA. In the new 40 million euro healthcare centre case project the functional changes had no negative effect to the project budget, schedule, quality or cooperation between stakeholders. The users and the building owner stated that the co-working in design process exceeded their expectations.