Harty, J (2012) The impact of digitalisation on the management role of architectural technology. PhD thesis, Robert Gordon University, UK.
Abstract
Building information modelling (BIM) is not only an authoring tool for architects and engineers, but also an analysis tool for all stakeholders in the supply chain procurement process. Analysis tools such as the code checking of building regulations and environmental simulations that can report on heating loads, daylighting and carbon use will influence the adoption of intelligent modelling faster and further than previously thought. The benefits for clients should not be underestimated either and some are already reaping them where project certainty is to the fore. However, the professional language that architects and engineers espouse is a latent force that can run counter to fostering collaboration. An emerging professional, the Architectural Technologist, can bridge that divide and adopt the adjunct role of manager in the integrated project delivery. The impact of digitalisation on the management role of architectural technology leads to four objectives namely; the practicalities of integrating drawing operations; the practicalities of design processes within the databased controlled programmes; the mapping of the overall process pitted against individual responsibility, data reliability and standard risk and the significant contribution to an understanding of how IMT’s will drive changes within the discipline of Architectural Technology through the next decade. These objectives were then tested to establish whether there was an evolution in the manner in which the design team is structured. They included; how the opportunities for BIM are impacting design strategies, how they are impacting associated management structures and a deeper analysis of the changing role of the architectural technologist as a result of adoption. In conclusion, two streams were identified where one points to the educational set-up where primarily there is an apparent latent talent shortage waiting to be filled. Secondly, to the industry where project certainty will evidently drive the adoption of building information modelling and integrated project delivery as both clients and contractors will require projects to be delivered in BIM formats.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Laing, R A; Kouider, T and Bennadji, A |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | architectural technology; building information modelling; building regulation; client; collaboration; daylighting; design process; liability; procurement; regulation; reliability |
| Index terms: | modelling, authoring, architect, engineer, building regulation, building information modelling, collaboration, stream, heating load, architectural technologist, evolution, mapping, regulation, design team, integrated project delivery, drawing, programme, daylighting, architectural technology, manager, design strategy, digitalization, design process, procurement process, liability |
| Subjects: | building performance, liability law, spatial and geospatial analysis, digital technology, analytical methods, professional practice, contractual arrangements, environmental science, practitioner, project controls, information systems, political science, regulatory law, design practice, management, water management, coding, technical documentation, energy systems, profession, design methods |
| Topics: | Engineering Principles, Sustainability, Procurement, Legal Issues, Research Practice, Governance, Roles and Professions, Digital Applications, Design Practice, Organizational Design, Time Control |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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