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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

I. Kovacic, T. Spyropoulou, M. Filzmoser, T. Sulzer:
"Collaborative Skills and Digital Technologies in Teaching and AEC Practice - A Comparative Study";
Talk: Engineering Project Organization Conference (EPOC) 2018 - (Re)Organizing in an Uncertain Climate, Brijuni, Kroatien (invited); 2018-06-25 - 2018-06-27; in: "Conference Proceedings of the Engineering Project Organization Conference (EPOC) 2018 - (Re)Organizing in an Uncertain Climate", (2018), 307 - 324.



English abstract:
The increased adoption of digital design tools and technologies in the highly fragmented AEC industry brings high potentials for integration of stakeholders and processes, thus enabling generation of innovative solutions along the value chain,from design to production.
However, the adoption of ICT is fundamentally changing the traditional, silobased design, planning and construction practices. In order to enable successful utilization of digital tools in the AEC industry, building up of both skills and competencies of involved stakeholders, in realm of technology, but more over in realm of interdisciplinary collaboration is needed.
As BIM is becoming part of public procurement and integrated project delivery agendas; therefore, experiencing extensive implementation in the AEC practice, it is also increasingly becoming inherent part of university education in architecture and engineering faculties. The students and practitioners are keen in embracing of new technological skills and competencies; however there is still very little experience in teaching of interdisciplinary collaboration.
With the aim of gaining more knowledge on interdisciplinary collaboration supported by BIM and digital design tools, and thereby simultaneously implementing BIM in education, we have introduced so called Integrated BIM Design Studios (IDS)at TU Wien, where students of architecture, civil engineering and master of building science develop a building design in multidisciplinary teams using digital tools.
To find the answers to the research question: What are the major technology-, people- and process-related challenges for the successful adoption of BIM and digital tools in interdisciplinary building design projects? - we will extend the conducted research by comparing the insights from the Integrated BIM Design Studios with the ones from the interdisciplinary course Applied Computational Design (ACD), conducted within Doctoral College for Computational Design at TU Wien and the practical case study, based on the interviews with the ATP architecture and engineering company, an early BIM adaptor. The results imply on the necessity of more extensive adoption of BIM in education, but more over on need for intensified introduction of multidisciplinary courses at the university. As the AEC industry is adopting new digital technologies, the processes are changing from silo-thinking to fully integrated design and planning on the one hand; the software development needs specific domain knowledge in order to satisfy the needs of AEC practitioners on the other - for both aspects increased multidisciplinary collaboration is necessary and needs to become part of curriculum.

Keywords:
BIM, Digital Design, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Education

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