Application of Text-Based Design Guidelines to Building Permit Review Communication -Part I: The Influence of Field of Experience

Abstract

This series of studies investigated how ″Field of Experience,″ ″Semantic interpretation,″ and ″Group Communication Pressure″ influence the application of text-based design guidelines to graphic-based building designs, and cause communication failures during building permit review communication. In this first part, authors invited 16 experts in building design and divided them into four groups with similar fields of experience to assess design indicators by using the Fuzzy Delphi Method. The results showed that among various professionals, their varying fields of experienced caused design indicators to be assessed discrepantly. Authors plan to continue to explore how text-based design guidelines negatively influence communication effectiveness through semantic differences and group communication pressure and how to enhance communication effectiveness in the building design review processes.

Keywords

• building design
• communication
• field of experience
• design process
• fuzzy delphi method