Digital Outsourcing in Architecture: Opportunities for Australian Firms or Perils for Australian Workforce?
Chief Investigators: Associate. Professor Paolo Tombesi, Assoc. Professor Bharat Dave, Mr Blair Gardiner (with Dr Peter Scriver)
Funded by: ARC Discovery Project grant 2005–2006
This research will help assess competitiveness and viability of different digital outsourcing practices in connection to the needs, the operative conditions and the products of the Australian building design sector. The information will give industry analysts a tool to identify the markets within which these arrangements are likely to spread or occur in the future, and take consequent corrective or supportive action. The outcomes of this project will benefit Australia by forecasting changes in professional employment prospects, and by providing a framework to consider development scenarios for architectural educational and professional institutions, national research and development priorities, and international trade agreement agendas.