Malaysian architects' experiences on performance-based identity and competence in BIM design management
The inherited identity and competence of an architect as a natural leader, prime decision maker, and creative designer are destabilised in building information modelling (BIM) design management practices. Yet, the macro-level stakeholders in the Malaysian architecture industry are still debating...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/113522/1/113522.pdf |
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| Summary: | The inherited identity and competence of an architect as a natural leader, prime
decision maker, and creative designer are destabilised in building information
modelling (BIM) design management practices. Yet, the macro-level
stakeholders in the Malaysian architecture industry are still debating whether to
restore their long-lost identity or transform their core values to remain relevant.
The current research focuses mostly on architects' adaptive strategies for
negotiating their desired identity rather than on their ability to properly perform
their way into a variety of identities in such a context. The latter is more
important because it reflects what clients value most when hiring architects:
competence, performance, and identity. The researcher, therefore, seeks to
investigate the lived experience of an architect demonstrating competence and
performing his or her way into identities following the contextual change in BIM
design management practices.
Drawing upon the interpretive phenomenological research design, the
researcher first employed a desk review technique to identify the contextual
changes that have triggered the redefinition of architects’ inherited identity and
competence demonstration in BIM design management practices. Then, the
researcher deployed a written account exercise and an in-depth semistructured
interview technique to explore their experiences in demonstrating
competence in such an environment. Finally, individual and group member
check sessions were conducted to verify their performed identity based on their
experiences demonstrating competence following the contextual change in BIM
design management.
A thematic analysis resulted in the following contextual changes in BIM design
management practices: changes in governmental policy, regulatory standards,
and guidelines; expanding in the scope of services; changes in project
hierarchies and authority structures; changes in organisational structure and
culture; changes in everyday architectural work processes; and changes in the
division of labour. The analytical approaches of naïve reading and thematic
analysis also revealed that the architects demonstrated their competence by
applying the constructability, buildability, and fire safety measures knowledge in
developing BIM models; contextualising BIM terminologies into the existing
local industry workflows; dictating the organisational culture; managing
personal and team adversity professionally; anticipating the future market;
managing the workforce planning; and developing the tool ecologies, to name a
few within and across the organisational settings. Finally, individual and group
member check sessions resulted in the following seven performed identities:
“performing more of a design strategist”, “performing more of a design
translator”, “performing more of a design facilitator”, “reinstating the identity as
a design coordinator”, “performing more of a design curator”, “performing more
of a design innovator”, and “performing more of a design entrepreneur”.
This study contributed to knowledge on three levels: the framework of
contextual changes in BIM design management practices, the BIM competence
demonstration framework for architects, and the performance-based identity
framework of an architect in BIM design management practices. This study
could facilitate the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) to restructure
continuing professional development (CPD) programmes and reform the
standard competence framework to promote architect identity hybridisation and
associated competencies in the environment. |
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