Nóbrega Júnior, Claudino Lins (2012) Building projects coordinator: Study and proposal for profile, activities and autonomy. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
At the moment, the companies of the sector of civil building are developing and improving the work of design coordination and include, besides attribution of coordination, responsibility with costs planning, phases and deadlines of the design process, hiring of designers, and analysis of project. Therefore, the competence of the design coordinator becomes decisive for the quality of the building project sent to the building site, and more broadly, the coordinator has great importance for the success of the undertaking and of the companies involved in the design building. This research has the main objective of proposing the profile, the activities and the most adequate autonomy for the coordinator of edification projects in the context of the Brazilian civil building. For this, the Delphi method was selected to be used in this research where 3 questionnaires were applied: the first was referred to the initial exploratory research for the choice of the participants of the research and contained questions about the current profile of the design coordinators; the second, related to the prospective study, was composed of questions totally open, according to the Delphi method and conversed about the profile, the activities and the autonomy of the coordinators. The answers received were tabulated, analyzed and sent, as a closed and objective questionnaire, for the interviewees aiming to converge the answers to a common denominator. The result obtained made explicit that the segment of edifications projects need coordinators of project not only with experience and technical knowledge in several areas that compose the complete design of the building, but also with abilities and competence to manage the professionals that compose the design team. Based on the final proposal for the profile, the competence, the knowledge, the abilities, the activities and the autonomy of the design coordinator were developed yet directives for a conception of a new curriculum for a post-graduation course in coordination of building projects.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Melhado, Sílvio Burrattino |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | autonomy; design coordinator; design process |
| Index terms: | Delphi method, designer, exploratory research, coordination, design process, proposal, building site, design team, questionnaire, competence |
| Subjects: | research methods, professional practice, project planning, personnel development, site and location studies, management, design methods, data collection methods, profession |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Human Resources, Design Practice, Roles and Professions, Research Practice, Geographical Context, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCEA |
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