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Key success factors and guidance for international collaborative design projects

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posted on 2015-12-23, 11:11 authored by Robby SoetantoRobby Soetanto, Mark Childs, Paul Poh, Stephen Austin, Jacqui Glass, Zulfikar Adamu, Chinwe Isiadinso, Harry Tolley, Helen MacKenzie
In the built environment (BE) sector, the co-creation process of design demands understanding of requirements (as viewed by parties involved), mobilisation of tacit knowledge, negotiation, and complex exchange of information. The need to collaborate over distance has further exacerbated the complexity of the process, and, in itself, represents a significant challenge for BE professionals who are increasingly expected to undertake this process within globally distributed virtual teams. The research aims to identify key success factors and develop guidance for international collaborative design projects, via the implementation of collaborative design courses in UK and Canadian universities over three academic years. Questionnaire surveys, focus groups, observation of online meetings, personal reflections provided data for the analysis. The findings reveal the significance of the perceived risk of collaboration and a difference in preferred communication mode between architects and civil/structural engineers. These findings suggest the impact of training in the subject discipline, and that the opportunity for co-located working has helped the development of trust. The guidance is aimed at BE educators who wish to implement this activity in their courses.

Funding

The authors wish to acknowledge the funding from Hewlett Packard Catalyst Initiative and the Higher Education Academy, which have provided the resources required for the BIM-Hub project (http://bim-hub.lboro.ac.uk/).

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

International Journal of Architectural Research

Volume

9

Issue

3

Pages

6 - 25 (20)

Citation

SOETANTO, R. ... et al., 2015. Key success factors and guidance for international collaborative design projects. International Journal of Architectural Research, 9 (3), pp. 6 - 25.

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© Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This article was published in the International Journal of Architectural Research.

ISSN

1938-7806

Language

  • en

Location

UK

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