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Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8740-6753 and Kagioglou, M.,
2022.
Designers’ perspective on the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare building projects.
Construction Management and Economics, 40 (2), pp. 123-141.
ISSN 0144-6193
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Abstract
Automation has been long explored to improve regulatory compliance during building design. Despite substantial research efforts on developing means to enable this process, there has been limited success in practical implementations. Designers’ inputs are often undervalued in such developments, leading to solutions that are not effectively incorporated into the design process. This issue is even more difficult in healthcare projects due to their complexity and convoluted regulatory frameworks. In this paper, we describe how designers perceive the use of automation to support regulatory compliance in healthcare projects, through the analysis of a series of semi-structured interviews. We found that regulatory documents have a large influence on design and their compliance often consists of an unformalised process in practice. Furthermore, we identified that subjectivity is perceived in requirements as needed due to the creativity involved in design, whereas automation can be understood as liberating in this context depending on how it is used. Improvement needs focussing on the revision of the regulatory framework as well as on software development have been highlighted by participants during the interviews, which led to the proposition of recommendations to help achieve their benefits in practice.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Construction Management and Economics | ||||||
| Creators: | Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P. and Kagioglou, M. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||||
| Date: | 1 February 2022 | ||||||
| Volume: | 40 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0144-6193 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 03 Oct 2024 10:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2024 10:55 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52347 |
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