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BECi 20:20 Series 1March 2013
Higher education for the built environment
Are we fit for purpose?
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“I hope for fireworks”
Chris Wise – 20 Feb 2013
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The context….
“designers and constructors work together to develop an integrated solution that best meets the required outcome”
March 2013
KEY OBJECTIVE: An integrated supply chain
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BECi 20:20 Series 4March 2013
“We educate in very narrow silos…they come out of university with preconceived ideas”
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BECi 20:20 Series 5March 2013
“....courses may have become too specialised or narrowly focussed on meeting short-term industrial needs, rather than educating people for a career in the built environment.”
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BECi 20:20 Series 6March 2013
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BECi 20:20 Series 7March 2013
“The relationship between those responsible for design and those who actually build must be improved through common education”
Sir Harold Banwell 1964
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BECi 20:20 Series 8March 2013
“....courses may have become too specialised or narrowly focussed on meeting short-term industrial needs, rather than educating people for a career in the built environment.”
Gann & Salter 1998
Interdisciplinary Skills for Built Environment
Professionals
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BECi 20:20 Series 9March 2013
“We educate in very narrow silos…they come out of university with preconceived ideas”
Peter Rogers Chairman of
Strategic Forum for
Construction
2002
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Infrastructure
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Property
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Fragmentation
Architecture
Engineering
Technology Production Manageme
nt Commercial
Built Environment Disciplines
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BECi 20:20 Series 11March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
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BECi 20:20 Series 12March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
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BECi 20:20 Series 13March 2013
“..it is scarcely possible that the innovation and change that is essential …can be secured through the industry as it is currently structured....and in the silo-based habits of the industry’s institutions.”
Paul Morrell 2010
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BECi 20:20 Series 14March 2013
Fragmentation
SilosSpecialisation
Narrow focusPreconceived ideas
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BECi 20:20 Series 15March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
How has this come about? The historical context….
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BECi 20:20 Series 16March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
18th Century
o Gradual breakdown of medieval model
o Increasing use of intermediary between employer and tradesmen
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BECi 20:20 Series 17March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Early 19th C
o Separation of design and construction
o Emergence of the ‘measurer’ (QS)
o Growth of general contracting
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BECi 20:20 Series 18March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Professional institutions
1818 Institution of Civil Engineers
1834 Institute of British Architects
1834 Builders’ Society1868 Institution of Surveyors
..... fragmentation institutionalised
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BECi 20:20 Series 19March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Professional institutions
1818 Institution of Civil Engineers
1834 Institute of British Architects
1834 Builders’ Society1868 Institution of Surveyors..... fragmentation institutionalised
Built environment education in 20C
• Architecture and engineering: established early in universities
• Surveying and building - tradition of part time education – relatively late in universities
• All disciplines subject to control from professional bodies
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BECi 20:20 Series 20March 2013
The key issues:
Built environment education reflects the fragmented nature of the professions.
Curriculum heavily influenced by professional bodies through accreditation
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What’s the answer then?
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“There is considerable scope for greater commonality in the
education, training and continuing professional development of the
construction professions.”
(1993)March 2013
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A report on the state of commonality in education and training for the construction professions
Professor John Andrews &Sir Andrew Derbyshire
“no support for the concept of a common three-year first degree for
all construction professionals”
CROSSING BOUNDARIES
“What’s the point of educating rounded people for an industry full
of square, adversarial roles?”
Quote from a contributor:
March 2013
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EDUCATING THE PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Latham Report – Working Group 9
“Propositions which use the concept of a general built environment degree programme would be viewed with scepticism by academics and, on available evidence, would be heavily undersubscribed”
March 2013
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BECi 20:20 Series 25March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Architecture
Engineering
Technology Production Manageme
nt Commercial
Built Environment Disciplines
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BECi 20:20 Series 26March 2013
Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Architectur
e Engineerin
g
Technology Production Manageme
nt Commercial
Built Environment Disciplines
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BECi 20:20 Series 27March 2013
Silo-based habits
Technology Production Manageme
nt Commercial
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER CONSTRUCTION STUDIES PROGRAMMEBSc (Hons) Architectural Technology
BSc (Hons) Building EngineeringBSc (Hons) Building Surveying
BSc (Hons) Construction ManagementBSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying & Commercial
Management
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Why?
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Barriers…….
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Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Professional bodies
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Fragmentation
Silo-based habits
Employers• Many have a preference for
graduates from accredited courses
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Students
•Attracted to professionally accredited courses •Perception of better employment prospects
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Universities
•Not inclined to take risks which might impact on student recruitment
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Looking ahead:Is anything likely to change?
Some possible drivers for change:
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Learning & teaching is changing..
• Less emphasis on knowledge
• More emphasis on:– creativity– problem-
solving– judgement– collaboration– coping with
change
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Impact of tuition fees?
• Universities will have to be more responsive
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Low Carbon Agenda:
• Need for innovation
• A catalyst for new ways of working
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• Promoting collaboration
• New procurement models
• Intelligent client
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Potential platform for a radical rethink of built environment education
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BECi 20:20 Series 40March 2013
Chris Wise
…a new educational model for sustainable building design.
Sustainability is for sharing
…time to defragment the engineering and architectural worlds ….to bring well-integrated, contextually aware technological knowledge into play from the start of every building design
20 February 2013
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Educational models from other countries?
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PROJECT BASED TEACHING
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Are we fit for purpose?
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BECi 20:20 Series 48March 2013
Built Environment: Collaboration and
Integration
