High Intensity
Interval Planning
Better Planning
Management
The need for
process-oriented
architectural planning
ProcessProcess




April 25, 2024
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Illustration by
AllesWirdGut
Visualization by
AllesWirdGut
Photos by
tschinkersten fotografie (EBS),
eiland.wien (team, mood)
Is HIIP just hip? HiiP facilitates efficient process design with the objective being to demand of all participants precisely as much contribution as is needed to achieve an agreed-on goal. Whatโs called clearly โgoing for the goalโ. In developing HIIP, we at AllesWirdGut have looked outside the box to draw on the most widely different successful models to find inspiration for an alternative to the status quo. HIIP borrows from, and uses, structures of so-called Integrated Project Development as well as the idea of โLean Thinkingโ and integrates all that into the time model of a sporty โHigh-Intensity Interval Training.โ


The golden Pretzelโa symbol of a systemized, fluent, and self-contained project workflow as is made possible by the HIIP method.

Design phase completed in just six monthsโHIIP does it!
The magic triangle of project management:
costโtimeโquality. Going jointly for the goal takes experience and know-how.
What, then, is HIIP? Planning by HIIP means segmenting the total planning process into a sequence of shared โintensive intervalsโ and separated โconcentrated rest phases.โ Decisions made jointly by all participantsโfrom the definition of objectives throughout the planning stages and to implementationโensure continuing and efficient project development.
How HIIP is my project? Whether a project is suited for HIIP depends less on the project itself than on the people involved and their willingness to question the familiar and give the new a chance. Experience shows that HIIP is particularly useful for large and complex projects. Facilitating immediate joint decision-making and taking available competencies into account, however, is just as valuable for smaller projects.

HIIP is no spectator sport! HIIP requires commitment, competence & dependability. The intensive intervals are decisive to develop the project collaboratively with all team members.
Rest periods last several weeks and are spent in everyone's usual office environment. Communication between participants is organized as needed.

In order to turn visions into reality, coordinated and systematic communication and procedures are needed with everyone involved in the planning. Illustration: Main theme of the project Conversion Gรถsserhalle, Vienna (AT)
HIIP clients. Participation of clients/ construction owners in the HIIP process requires time and commitment. Active participation offers an opportunity to directly influence the project outcome. Intensive participation also makes proposal, reviewing and approval cycles obsolete. Delays due to multiple or post-processing (repetitive services) are reduced. In the HIIP process, a team is most innovative when it fully understands the needs of others. It is therefore crucial that clients act transparently and reliably in order to benefit, and benefit from, the final result. Commitments must be met, promises kept, and decisions must be made based on the project teamโs scheduling requirements. Project management of building owners must have a general understanding of design and construction processes in order to participate in decision-making. Moreover, the role of the client/ construction owner primarily is to provide the best possible support for the performance of the team.


HIIP and BIM. Working toward a shared goal works best when people actually work together on a product. Sounds logical but has in fact no basis in traditional planning. It is only through the use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and the digital twin it introduces that real-life collaborative work on a project becomes possible. Integrating BIM into planning is therefore a prerequisite for meaningful planning.

Intensive intervals are used to make all the decisions needed to move forward. The decision-making process is always a joint effort (client, planner, consultant).
Intensive intervals need an inspiring working environment. Attention must be paid to provide for appropriate furnishing of the room, supplies (food and drinks) as well as the necessary work equipment.
Intensive intervals are several-day, well-prepared and moderated in-person events at a shared location. Their number and duration is bindingly agreed on at the beginning.
The concentrated rest periods between intensive intervals are used for elaboration and further processing of decisions made, as well as to prepare for the next interval.

HIIP clients know the current project status & progress at any time and have certainty about the outcome long before the project is completed.

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