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An IPD approach to construction education

Construction Economics and Building

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Title An IPD approach to construction education
 
Creator MacDonald, Jennifer
Mills, Julie
 
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Building Information Modelling (BIM), PLIM, IPD, Collaborative education framework
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Description The construction industry worldwide is moving towards more collaborative working practices, such as integrated project delivery (IPD). The era of the Master Builder has passed; modern construction projects are too complex for one person to understand all aspects.  New specialist disciplines are emerging, with experts engaged at earlier stages of the design process. However, this collaborative approach is not reflected in the current education of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals. Students of the separate disciplines are generally educated in isolation from the others. On graduation, they are then expected to be able to work in integrated teams without prior training in multidisciplinary teamwork. This contributes to the poor levels of trust and inadequate information sharing that plague the industry and prevents it from fully embracing the productivity savings that BIM (building information modelling) and IPD promise. Academics of the AEC disciplines also work in isolation, and the same courses are developed from scratch every time a new academic arrives at an institution. This paper proposes an integrated approach to the teaching of AEC subjects, including a framework to assist academics in adapting their existing curricula, and reports on some initial trials carried out in three Australian Universities.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2013-06-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer reviewed invited commentry
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3324
10.5130/AJCEB.v13i2.3324
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 13, No 2 (2013): AJCEB; 93-103
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3324/3497
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Jennifer MacDonald, Julie Mills
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