Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine project requirements
- Establish communication with the client and obtain information regarding the client needs and expectations
- Determine design parameters and constraints based on client requirements and review of the site
- Take accurate site measurements and record and identify location of current services for impact on design
- Accurately document project requirements
- Examine layout options
- Identify key work zones and determine prime activities and associated appliances in the context of the brief
- Identify traffic flow patterns and considerations for kitchen space based on client requirements
- Consider how the principles of proximity should be used to maximise the practicality of the kitchen layout
- Identify location of services and determine implications for relocation
- Identify the need or potential for structural change based on scope of the brief
- Analyse suitability of layout options for kitchen space and determine limitations and benefits based on information gathered
- Determine storage options
- Assess kitchen ergonomic considerations
- Use basic principles of ergonomics to determine space planning implications
- Identify requirements for working height based on specific client needs
- Identify manual handling considerations for kitchen design tailored to client needs
- Consider storage principles and determine implications for design
- Take into account special considerations for children, older people and/or disabled people in accordance with brief or client needs
- Examine appliance requirements
- Identify required appliances and determine standard dimensions, clearances and required services
- Identify manufacturer guidelines and statutory regulations regarding the placement and installation of appliances and examine implications for design
- Analyse work space implications for appliances and determine implications for design
- Determine planning and contractual considerations
- Recognise the need for work or change that is subject to compliance requirements based on outcomes of assessment
- Determine and integrate implications of structural work and relocation or change to service requirements into the design process
- Identify and organise the need for specialist expertise and advice
- Collate and document information