Architectural management in the digital arena : proceedings of the CIB-W096 conference Vienna

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Architectural management in the digital arena : proceedings of
the CIB-W096 conference Vienna 2011, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria, 13-14 October 2011
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Otter, den, A. F. H. J., Emmitt, S., & Achammer, C. (Eds.) (2011). Architectural management in the digital arena
: proceedings of the CIB-W096 conference Vienna 2011, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 13-14
October 2011. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
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CIB-W096
ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT
Vienna University of Technology
Austria, 13 - 14 October 2011

CIB - WO96

Architectural Management
in the Digital Arena

Editors: Ad den Otter, Stephen Emmitt & Christoph Achammer
Proceedings
2 CIB-W096 2011 Vienna

The CIB-W096 conference 2011, Vienna 13-14 October 2011
is sponsored by the international journal Architectural Engineering and Design Management (AEDM)
with a Best paper award
and 1 month free access to the electronic version of the Journal for all authors.
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Proceedings of the CIB-W096
conference Vienna 2011

Architectural Management
in the Digital Arena

ISBN nr.: 978-90-386-2810-3
Publisher: University Press, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven
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Editors
Dr. Ad den Otter, University of Technology Eindhoven (TU/e), NL (Press officer CIB-W096)
Prof. Dr. Stephen Emmitt, Loughborough University, UK (Joint coordinator CIB-W096)
Prof. Dipl.ing. Christoph Achammer, Vienna University of Technology (conference host)
Technical editorial assistant: Jasper Kock, University of Technology Eindhoven (TU/e), NL

Scientific Committee

Prof. Christoph Achammer (Conference host)
Prof. Thomas Bock
Prof. Dino Bouchlaghem
Assoc. prof. Chun-Ta Tzeng
Prof. Stephen Emmitt
Prof. Bob Giddings
Prof. Joanna Jablonska
Dr. Iva Kovacic
Prof. Kerry London
Dr. Rachael Luck
Assoc. prof. Silvio de Melhado
Prof. Marja Naaranoja
Dr. Ad den Otter
Assoc. prof. Matthijs Prins
Prof. Paolo Tombesi
Prof. Wim Zeiler

Organizing Committee
Dr. Ad den Otter
Prof. Dr. Stephen Emmitt
Prof. Dipl.ing. Christoph Achammer
Assoc. prof. Matthijs Prins

Conference management:
Secretary ADMS-TU/e, mrs. Elle Abzach & Secretary Industriebau TU-Wien, mrs. Isolde Tastel
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Architectural Management in the Digital Arena

Leading research into architectural design management is the CIB’s working committee W096
Architectural Management. CIB-W096 was officially established in 1993, following a conference on
‘Architectural Management’ at the University of Nottingham in the UK. Since this time the
commission has been active in the area, with regular international conferences, meetings, published
conference proceedings and other publications.
CIB-W096 brings together researchers and practitioners concerned with the whole life cycle of
uilding and construction projects. Recently the members of the working group have concentrated on
achieving value for stakeholders and this work led to a focus on integrated design teams and
improved communications. Active working areas are; revaluing design, communicating design,
inclusive design, design management, design integration, design management education and
revaluing architectural practice - all with an underlying sustainable agenda. In addition to the
publication of peer reviewed conference proceedings the commission has produced the book
Architectural Management: international research & practice (Eds. Emmitt, Prins, Otter, 2009, Wiley-
Blackwell, Oxford), which provides a state of the art report into the rapidly evolving field of
architectural management.
One of the most topical issues to be dealt with by CIBW096 concerns information technologies
and building information modeling, the theme of this, the commission’s 24th, conference.
Architectural design processes are iterative processes in which designing and decision making are
interwoven. Demands, wishes and concerns of clients and stakeholders for a beautiful, well
functioning and sustainable building need to be fully understood and effectively communicated
within the temporary project team. The focus of architects, managers, advisors and engineers has
evolved from the project to responsibilities for the entire life cycle of the building. This is set in an
age of rapid advances in digital technologies and changing responsibilities.
This conference explores applications of architectural management using all types of electronic
media for creating, communicating and realizing design in a variety of different contexts; as well as
addressing long running themes within the architectural management knowledge domain.
This proceedings contain 27 peer reviewed papers within the conference topics:
-Smart, lean and intelligent architectural design management; -Application of collaborative
technologies, such as building information modeling (BIM); -Integrated (sustainable) design solutions
and integrated working practices; -Managing roles and legal responsibilities for design in a digital
age;- Global versus local challenges for architecture

For further information about CIB W096 visit: http://qa.cib-w096.nl/index.html
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Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dipl.ing. Christoph M. Achammer
Keynote speech 1: October 13th 2011 at Kupel Saal TU-Wien, 9.00 – 9.45 hours.

Christoph M. Achammer is Professor at the Technical University, Vienna since 2001 and is head of the
“Institute for Industrial Building and Interdisciplinary Construction Planning”. He is also the CEO of
ATP (Achammer, Tritt und Partners) an International performing Architectural and Engineering firm
with 450 employees and offices in Vienna, Innsbruck, Munich, Frankfurt, Budapest, Zagreb and
Zurich. The firm slogan is: Architects and engineers for excellent buildings.

Prof.dr.ir. Bauke de Vries
Keynote speech 2: October 14th 2011 at Kupel Saal TU-Wien, 9.00 – 9.45 hours.

Bauke de Vries is Professor at the University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven since 2004, and head
of the group Design Systems. Design Systems (DS) develops and researches novel tools, interfaces,
and decision support systems for architects. The DS curriculum not only deals with traditional CAAD
education, but also educates students to become Building Information Technologists between the
Building & Construction Industry and IT companies. The group’s focus is on research and
development on integrating methods, models and techniques in design and decision support systems
(DDSS) for end users. The research is part of the DDSS research program. Topics are: a) Simulation of
Human Behavior in the Built Environment; b) Multi-agent systems for design and planning; c)
Concept modeling for the support of collaborative design.

From the organizers of CIB-W096

We would like to thank the members of the scientific committee, our review assistant Jasper
Kock, the secretary of ADMS, mrs. Elle Abzach, and our host Christoph Achammer and his
staff: mrs. Iva Kovacic and mrs. Isolde Tastel for their help in ensuring a successful
conference.
Ad den Otter, Stephen Emmitt and Matthijs Prins
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List of Papers
P1101 An ecology for design coordination: multidisciplinarity as a way of working ............................................................................. 8
P1102 integration along the value chain in construction through robot oriented management .......................................................... 21
P1104 An innovative signage design software to assist wayfinding in complex environments ............................................................. 35
P1105 Lean design management: exploring perception and practice ................................................................................................. 46
P1107 Planning practice in transition from fragmentation to integration ........................................................................................... 57
P1108 A study of decision-making factors on the project profit of residential construction ................................................................ 71
P1109 A study of BIM performance at the design stage by architecture consulting firms in Taiwan .................................................... 86
P1110 A design control structure for architectural firms in a highly complex and uncertain situation .................................................. 97
P1113 Addressing the architect/contractor interface: a lean design management perspective ......................................................... 110
P1114 Architectural management: exploring definitions and impacts .............................................................................................. 120
P1115 Tertiary architectural technology education and construction health and safety (H&S) .......................................................... 132
P1116 Propertisation of building information modeling mapped against firm intellectual capital ..................................................... 143
P1118 Task management system development for collaborative perfomance of building-yard workflows ........................................ 158
P1120 The cultural political economy of megaprojects ................................................................................................................... 171
P1121 Integral design: the next step after Integrated design between engineering and architecture ................................................ 184
P1122 Decision support tools for the early collaboration within sustainable building design ............................................................ 197
P1125 Managing teams for integrated design solutions .................................................................................................................. 209
P1128 A review of different approaches to access and people circulation within health-care facilities and the application of modelling,
simulation and visualisation ................................................................................................................................................ 219
P1131 Communication vs information in the building process ........................................................................................................ 232
P1134 The building design process in the context of different countries .......................................................................................... 241
P1135 Challenges for implementation of a new model of collaborative design management ........................................................... 256
P1137 The as built monitoring plan, a supporting tool for building management. ............................................................................ 267
P1138 Implementation of quality management system on architecture offices as a requirement for sustainable design ................... 276
P1139 conceptualizing design management for construction projects ............................................................................................. 287
P1140 Main aspects for modelling networks of practice ................................................................................................................. 295
P1141 Assessment of buildability information by a bayesian-based evaluation model...................................................................... 311

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P1101

An ecology for design coordination: multidisciplinarity as a way of
working

R. Luck and I. Ewart
University of Reading

Abstract: At a point in time when technologies for remote and asynchronous forms of collaboration are pervasive, being
able to justify the time, space and places for collocated working becomes increasingly important. This article
provides an account of a way of working in a multidisciplinary design practice where the setting, the routine
yet ordered practices and a series of design meeting events were seen to feature in the organisation of the
design work. In this account, the notion of the design meeting as an event category is questioned, as different
forms of design meeting staged for different purposes were observed. In various ways the inter-disciplinary
inputs to the design of a project were coordinated and this was seen to happen in a series of workplace
interactions and practices that were part of the ecology of a multidisciplinary design organisation.
Collectively, these situated observations support multidisciplinarity as a location-based way of working in a
real-time synchronous manner.

Keywords: Design, Multidisciplinarity, Meetings, Coordination, Interaction, Synchronous communication
1. INTRODUCTION
Design in the construction sector (architectural, engineering and construction industries, AEC) is a
collaborative activity by necessity. It is because of project team configurations, divisions of labour,
the numerous disciplines and fields of design expertise represented within a team that forms of
collaborative working are necessary (Bresnen, Goussevskaia et al. 2005). Collaborative design and
forms of design coordination are needed to integrate inputs across knowledge domains and this occurs
in various ways and in a variety of settings throughout a construction project.
This article focuses on what is initially framed as a type of event, design meetings, to examine some
of the ways that these interactions feature in the coordination of the design of a project between the
participants. The preliminary focus is on what happens in design meetings in practice, initially as an
unmotivated study, observing how the participants interact in meetings. This article draws attention to
some routine practices within a multidisciplinary design team that feature in the coordination of
design. The ways of working observed provide a foundation for reflection on what are the current
motives for face-to-face interaction and location-based working, now that technologically-mediated
collaborative environments are available.
This argument is structured first, presenting an overview of some previous research on meetings in
design and construction settings to provide a framing for what is meant by design meetings for this
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study. Next the analytic orientation for the research is introduced, followed by the substantive part of
the article, where accounts of what was seen to happen in design meeting settings are presented. The
accounts are presented as a slice through routine life as it happens in a multidisciplinary design
organisation, examining what is being accomplished by a cross-disciplinary design team. Lastly,
reflections on contingencies between face-to-face and technologically supported collaboration are
discussed.
2. WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT DESIGN MEETINGS?
Selected studies of interaction in design meetings provide a foundation from which to probe what
we mean by design team meetings for the purposes of this research, to then examine what makes them
special.
2.1 Routine practice, routine events
Design meetings are remarkable in construction project environments for several reasons. They are
part of a way of working and the everyday life of a project and as such feature in the routine
organisation of a project. Design team meetings are the locus for conversations between designers
with different knowledge backgrounds to discuss the current status of the design, information that is
missing and where possible, to negotiate design solutions (Cross and Clayburn Cross 1995). Analysis
of design team interaction is reported as an aspect of communication and in meeting settings
specifically (Emmitt and Gorse 2007; Kleinsmann, Valkenburg et al. 2007; Maier, Eckert et al. 2009;
McDonnell, Lloyd et al. 2009). Seldom examine are the characteristics of design meetings. Two
characteristics of design meetings are noteworthy: as events, that is, as a marker in time, and as a
location, in providing a space and place for interaction. Meetings are milestone events in the life of a
project and can mark memorable moments in time when significant decisions were made and shifts in
understanding of the design happen and become shared, for example, stories about a project (Lloyd
2000; McDonnell, Lloyd et al. 2009). In this respect design meetings, as events, can act as a form of
temporal marker for the design of a project as it evolves and progresses through stages in a project’s
life cycle. Design meetings often provide a setting for the members of a design team to meet in
person, in face-to-face interaction (den Otter and Emmitt 2007; Emmitt and Gorse 2007; Gorse and
Emmitt 2007; Emmitt 2010) where patterns of interaction are revealing of more dominant parties in
meetings (Austin, Steele et al. 2001; Hugill 2004; Foley and Macmillan 2005).
Meeting in face-to-face configurations is not always the case now forms of video-conferencing and
conversations augmented by video become ubiquitous (and at its most elemental includes using skype
and face-time). We are designing buildings at a time when there is choice in the collaboration media