- Title
- Post Pandemic Professional Practice: Dynamics and How Spatial Design, Functionality and Perceptions are Adapting
- Creator
- King, Kirsty
- Subject
- Built Environment -- South Africa
- Subject
- Pattern perception
- Date Issued
- 2022-12
- Date
- 2022-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/59476
- Identifier
- vital:62121
- Description
- On 23 March 2020, the onset of the Covid 19 Pandemic in South Africa brought with it anxiety, uncertainty and volatility. Change was forced upon everyday life in an unprecedented way. The aim of this study was to determine how professional practices in the built environment are adapting to the forced changes from the perspective of spatial design, functionality and perception. By means of literature reviews and survey responses, insight can be obtained as to the effect of the forced changes on professional practices in South Africa. The effect of the changes and how they are being adapted to, and implemented within the built environment, becomes important, in order to fully understand such changes, from the point-of-view of quality-control mechanisms, skills and knowledge transfer and communication. A mixed-use research approach was used to gather the data; and the outcome of the study aims to identify how the forced change fully affected work-place practices and the people in them. An initial pilot questionnaire was circulated to a small group of professionals in the built environment. Following this, a web-based survey was distributed via the professional-practice governing bodies to Architects, Engineers and Quantity Surveyors within South Africa. Both professionally registered and candidate professionals were invited to participate in the survey. A low response rate of 31% was received. The data from the 47 respondents were captured on the data base. The data were then analysed by the researcher; and by a semantic approach, themes and trends were identified and assumptions were made, based on the results. The respondents identified with the forced changes; and it has emerged that the forced changes are only implemented when necessary or legislated. It was also evident that the remote working environment is not conducive to productive work flow, skills development and quality control in the built-environment sector. The study further makes recommendations, based on the objectives identified.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment, and Technology, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (ix, 83 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Engineering, the Built Environment, and Technology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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