1. Opportunity Areas & Solutions
Practical Knowledge College Education Project Collab. Website
Internships and workshops will be created in which indi-
viduals currently pursuing a higher education or have pre-
viously done so will work together
A Project Collaboration Minor will be created in which students from multi-
ple dicsiplines can take courses that educate them in regards to successful
collaboration methods and the benefits of those methods
A Project Collaboration website will be created with three major
components. A monthly paid membership will be used to pay ac-
credited professionals to participate
Indivuduals will be assigned different professional roles.
Roles will be both the career the individual wishes to
pursue and a practice they don’t plan on pursuing to
experience both sides of the spectrum
Participants will solve issues Architects and Engineers
experience while collaborating on a project such as
budgets, timelines, client satisfaction and site inspec-
tions.
Students will also work together on executing projects in which
collaboartion is the main focus
This minor in accomodation with specified major, will prepare students
for successful project development through all phases and they will
ultimately become more qualified in the work field
Online seminars, both live and archived will be taught by
professionals, providing extensive knowledge about suc-
cessful collaboration techniques and strategies between
architects and engineers
The website will also have written blogs organized in
folders with collaboration strategies and benefits. Social
media resoucres will also be incorporated
More Education/ Preparation
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Project Development Minor Collaboration Internship
Architecture & Engineer
courses combined
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Project Collaboration
Successful collaboration between architects and engineers is critical in project developement. A project can either go smoothly or become a disaster for everyone if not.
Job Tasks & Collaborative Work
Architect Structural Engineer
- Create building designs and highly de-
tailed drawings
- Traveling frequently to building sites and
proposed locations
- Writting and presenting reports, propos-
als, applications and contracts
- Design within specific city codes
- Specify the requirements of the project
- Ensure client satisfaction
- Apply for planning permission and advice
from legal departments
- Compile project specifications
- Stay within proposed budget
- Adhere to timeline in contract
- Stay within proposed budget
-Ensure client satisfaction
- Adhere to timeline in contract
- Design within specific city
codes
- Site inspections
- Design software file sharing
- Analyze configurations of the basic struc-
tural components of a building or other
type of structure
- Calculate the pressures, stresses, and
strains that each component will experi-
ence from other parts of the structure
- Apply expert knowledge of the forces
that act on various structures
- Examine structures at risk of collapse
and advising how to improve their structur-
al integrity
Action & Result
How Can Collaboration Between Architects and Structural Engineers
be improved in the Educational System?
Only 15% of college students from undergraduate archi-
tecture and structural engineering programs, sampled
from several colleges in Arizona, feel they are recieving
thorough education on successful collaboration between
architects and engineers. Clearly there is plenty of room
for improvement
Issues in the Educational System
But Yet...
“When large firms like SOM, Gensler, ARUP were asked
to rank the most important criteria in hiring employees,
surprisingly design talent and skill didn’t make the top of
the list. It was the “ability to collaborate”
- Collaboartions in Architecture And Engineering Case
Study
Successful
Projects
Successful
Career