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Extraction of Profitability Decline Factors of Small-sized Architectural Design Firm (소규모 설계엔지니어링 업체의 수익성 저하 요인 추출)

  • Yang, Jin-Kook;Choi, Hye-Ji;Lee, Min-Hyeon;Jo, Hyeon-Taek
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.115-116
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    • 2015
  • Recently, most of the construction companies is being degraded due to the overall construction recession profitability. Among them, order quantity of the architectural and engineering firms are trend to decrease except for large companies over a certain size. In particular, small companies are facing more difficulties. This study was conducted expert interview method to extract the main cause of profitability degradation of a small-sized design engineering companies. And, we are proposes a critical influence factors through survey about extracted factors. The results of this study are expect to help the competitiveness of architectural design firm.

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A Framework of Server-Based BIM System for Architectural Design firm (설계사무소 운용을 위한 Server기반 BIM 통합정보시스템 프레임워크 개발)

  • Cho, Jae-Keun;Kim, Yeon-Soo;Mha, Young-Kyun
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 2013
  • In the architectural design industry recent BIM system was introduced to the vast amount of information generated by the process, who need it and require the need to manage the construction of information related to production, storage, delivery. In addition, for the project to perform the work involved collaboration between organizations is essential. The purpose of this study was to BIM standard for the system to effectively utilize BIM technology and development of the BIM business support collaboration system, to establish a BIM application environment, a variety of information in the field of architectural design that can be used practically efficient transcription.

A longitudinal study on the professional architects' recognition about the architectural knowledge assets of healthcare design (의료시설 설계의 건축지식자산에 대한 전문 건축가의 인식특성 종단연구)

  • Kim, Duk-Su
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2010
  • This paper is a longitudinal study, comparing survey results between two time periods. A previous survey was conducted in 1999. After 10 years of the first survey, the second survey was conducted while utilizing the same questionnaire. A list of membership of Korea Institute of Heallthcare Architecture was used as a sampling frame. At the first survey in 1999, questionnaires of 27.3 percentage were returned, and 15.5 percentage in the 2008 survey. Healthcare design is one of the highly specialized design types in architecture. In addition, it is demanded highly specialized knowledge to solve healthcare design problems. As a professional service firm(PSF), architectural firm utilizes knowledge assets to provide design service to clients. Specialized knowledge in question is one of the core assets of PSF. The knowledge generates competitive advantages and plays an effective role as a marketing tool for PSF. However, empirical studies dealing with the knowledge characteristics of specialized design(healthcare) firms were hardly found. Thus, this study aims to trace the professional architects' perception of knowledge demands for task performance and architectural knowledge assets. The results can be used as a reference when a specialized firm in healthcare design initiates to build knowledge assets in it.

Data-driven Value-enhancing Strategies: How to Increase Firm Value Using Data Science

  • Hyoung-Goo Kang;Ga-Young Jang;Moonkyung Choi
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.477-495
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    • 2022
  • This paper proposes how to design and implement data-driven strategies by investigating how a firm can increase its value using data science. Drawing on prior studies on architectural innovation, a behavioral theory of the firm, and the knowledge-based view of the firm as well as the analysis of field observations, the paper shows how data science is abused in dealing with meso-level data while it is underused in using macro-level and alternative data to accomplish machine-human teaming and risk management. The implications help us understand why some firms are better at drawing value from intangibles such as data, data-science capabilities, and routines and how to evaluate such capabilities.

A Study on the Architectural Education for the Development of the Architectural Form with Using Digital Design Tools (디지털 디자인 도구를 이용한 건축형태개발을 위한 건축교육에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong J.-S.;Choi M.-H.
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.334-350
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    • 2004
  • Until now, architects have used traditional methods in order to develop architectural forms and use a digital technology as presentation tools. The field of digital technology has been expanded to control easily architectural data, eventually leads to the creation for creative ideas, which were belong to mainly designer's talent. It has been educated by using digital tool in foreign universities but in our case a little university try to do. So we need an adequate curriculum and educational media because of digitalized data, originated architectural form and reduction of time and money. In this paper, as it is surveyed the present situation of architetural education by using digital tool in domestic and foreign country, it can be used as the fundamental data that architectural education by using digital tool is initiated In our universities.

Organizational Design for New Product Architecture Development: Comparative Analysis of Sharp and Casio on PDA Development (신규 제품아키텍처 개발을 위한 기업조직의 설계: PDA 개발에 있어 샤프와 카시오의 개발조직 비교 분석)

  • Wi John-H.
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.1-30
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the organizational design and management of product development in creating new product architecture by an established firm. For the purpose, the paper put up the organizational design in the process of PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) development of Sharp and Casio which were Japanese major PDA firms in 1990s. PDA is the product born through architectural change from Electronic Organizer. Prior research on the product architecture change and organizational adaptation emphasized that an established firm is difficult to adapt to new product architecture due to the restriction of prior technology or organizational inertia. For overcoming these problems and successful development of new product architecture, organizational design and management in the process of product development becomes essential. In case of Sharp, corporate development project team had been used to overcome the restrictions from architectural knowledge accumulated through previous product. After launching first new PDA by corporate development project team, Sharp created a new division and pushed an evolution of PDA, when new PDA market start to grow up rapidly toward a major market segmentation. As a result, Sharp was able to build up stable PDA project trajectory. However, Casio was late for three years in launching of new PDA architecture because previous division charging of Electronic Organizer tried to develop first new PDA. Casio's PDA development was prohibited by engineers of previous division because new PDA architecture was inferior on user interface and display definition. That is, Casio's first PDA development was restricted by architectural knowledge of previous product.

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Model Study of Aesthetic Database System of Architectural Precedents for Design Reference (설계참조를 위한 건축선례의 미학적 정보체계 모형연구)

  • Kim, Kyong-Soo
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.5 no.2 s.10
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    • pp.83-95
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    • 1996
  • Computerized visual database construction of architectural precedents has just begun in some research institutes in the world. In Korea the first visual database has shown its testl version by S architectural design firm in september 1996. In this article the author discusses the historical contexts and the recent computerization cases, the traits, the uses and the limits of architectural visual database system of precedents. The forms and contents of data fields in two cases are compared with a focus on the description of architectural traits of each data entry. Compared to the KIA format, the S database has better performance for architectural design reference because it collects more pictures and drawings and larger texts for the field of architectural chracteristics. But this latter also is constrained by its capacity of memory and so lacks the reciprocity of the DOORS in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. A visual database system which has more flexible allocation of memory and respondent with the users is yet to be prepared. But this system also should be maintained by some experts in architectural history, theory and criticism, because their knowledge is essential for selection of precedents and revision of the data description. A full-fledged electronic visual database in architecture will not only save much effort for the architect, but also will change the architects' design behavior. Nevertheless this does not mean the automatic promotion of architects' creativity.

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신규제품 아키텍처 개발을 위한 기업조직의 설계 -PDA 개발에 있어 샤프와 카시오의 개발조직 비교 분석-

  • Wi, Jeong-Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the Technology Innovation Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.44-68
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the organizational design and management of product development in creating new product architecture by an established firm. For the purpose, the paper put up the organizational design in the process of PDA(Personal Digital Assistant) development of Sharp and Casio which were Japanese major PDA firms in 1990s. PDA is the product born through architectural change from Electronic Organizer. Prior research on the product architecture change and organizational adaptation emphasized that an established firm is difficult to adapt to new product architecture due to the restriction of prior technology or organizational inertia. For overcoming these problems and successful development of new product architecture, organizational design and management in the process of product development becomes essential. In case of Sharp, corporate development project team had been used to overcome the restrictions from architectural knowledge accumulated through previous product. After launching first new PDA by corporate development project team, Sharp created a new division and pushed an evolution of PDA, when new PDA market start to grow up rapidly toward a major market segmentation. As a result, Sharp was able to build up stable PDA project trajectory. However, Casio was late for three years in launching of new PDA architecture because previous division charging of Electronic Organizer tried to develop first new PDA. Casio's PDA development was prohibited by engineers of previous division because new PDA architecture was inferior on user interface and display definition. That is, Casio's first PDA development was restricted by architectural knowledge of previous product.

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A Brief Sketch of Architectural Works Copyright with the United States Cases: Analysis based on Thomas Shine v. David M. Childs and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP Case

  • Moon, Hwakyung
    • Architectural research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2007
  • These days the copyright plays a significant role in various fields of creative works and it has expanded dramatically into unprecedented ways. In Korea, architectural works copyright cases are rare due to the lack of information and understanding of the architectural works copyright. Architectural works copyright can promote architects' creative activities and enhance the quality of architectural works as art. Nevertheless, there is little effort to advance the studies of architectural works copyright in the architectural design area. Under these circumstances, this research attempts to share the basic case laws and remedies for various architectural works copyright issues in the U.S. cases. This Article examines the Thomas Shine v. David M. Childs and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP Case which is the most recent case as I could reach. This case is about a story between two architects, one is from a very prestigious architectural design firm and the other, once Yale Architectural student, now practices his design work as an up-and-coming architect. A close examination of this case will provide a legal and architectural spectrum of copyright. That is, it will make it more specific how to solve the copyright infringement. Artistic and technological contexts are overlapped in Architectural works copyright as its inherent characteristics. Therefore, different ways from other copyrighted works are needed to access the untangled equations of the architectural works copyright protection. In addition, more comprehensible and specific regulations that can impose a remedy more suited to the architectural works copyright violations are needed and they should enable architects to fulfill their architectural activities under wide range of copyright protection. Moreover, in prior to all efforts to handle those equations, fundamental knowledge of architectural works copyright is required to improve the copyright protection in the architectural design area as well as to provide for the globalizing design practice. Ultimately, all of these efforts will be rewarded when constant researches based on Korean and other countries' architectural copyright cases can support them and it would be great if this research can set the stage for resolving expected copyright conflicts within the architectural design area.