| 2005 Report on University Research Sharing Tacit Design Knowledge in a Distributed Design Environment (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| The AEC industry has realized the value of capturing, storing and reusing architects ’ design knowledge that is mostly tacit. Tacit design knowl-edge is highly personal and implicit knowledge. As such, it encompasses design capacity, expertise, intuitive understanding, and professional insight formed as a result of design experience. Throughout the life cycle of a design project, architects rely heavily on their tacit design knowledge to support design decisions (Schon 1983). Therefore, to achieve greatness, architectural firms try to hire good architects with in-depth design knowledge and expertise. Ron Skaggs, Chairman and Past CEO of HKS, has stated that the employee is HKS ’ greatest resource (Skaggs 2002). Current architectural design process has been described as a multi-participatory distributed design environment (Huang 1999) to which architects bring their own expertise from remote locations. Architects ’ tacit knowledge holds tremendous value if made reusable for the right project at the right time. Therefore, the firms ’ main concern is how to hire accomplished professionals who will apply | |||||||||||||||
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