A STUDY OF EXPANDED BUSINESS MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING FIRMS IN THE CAPITAL FACILITIES INDUSTRY
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Tsai, Tung-ho
Abstract
In the underdevelopment countries, building and construction related industries are stars within all the industries. In the ’80 and ’90, building and construction industries were very hot industries in Taiwan. Recent years, Taiwan becomes a developed country, impacts from the domestic and international political and economic environments in recent years, and the trend of population decline, the demand of new construction is keep on declined. Building and construction industries are not as hot as before. Even demands are reducing, the competitions are still very intensive, and profits are keeping on decreased. Traditional, architects and engineers pay more attention in the professional service for plan and design phase, and contractors pay more attention in constructions for new construction. In the new economic environment, they started to think how to expand their business, expand their professional service to operation and maintenance phase of facilities management.n the operation and maintenance phase of facilities management, architectural professions may consider to participate the properties management, provide integrated information service for the life cycle of facilities management, provide professional service for operation and maintenance phase….etc.ost of architectural professions in Taiwan are very small and their profits are very low. Even the contractors and special subcontractors are not big. Most of firms in this industry are providing the professional service for the operation and maintenance phase. Only small percentage of their incomes is from the service of the operation and maintenances phase.he service fees of property management are very low in Taiwan. Most of the players of properties management use low service fee as their major competition strategies, most of the services in the properties management are not architectural specialty, so the properties management industry is not very suitable for the architectural specialties. The integration of information for life cycle of facilities management is a new field of service, large portions of the service are related to architectural professional knowledge and experience. Architectural professional firms may consider join services with related business partners. Although peoples in Taiwan didn’t pay too much attention to maintenance of buildings, because all the raw material price escalated up recently and reduction of the carbon dioxide become import issues, the professional service for operation and maintenance phase will has good potential if can get supports from government’s policies.esides professional techniques of architectural professional firms, all the architectural professional firms shall adjust their management; perform cost analysis for the new business field.
Subjects
Facilities management
properties management
architect
professional engineer
contractor
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