The scope of education on building technology is not limited to construction supervision for architects and construction work management for constructors. In fact, when the 2008's reform of the Architect Act introduced the eight categories of designated lectures in accreditation of architect license in Japan, one of them was Building production, not Construction work. However, architectural courses of technical colleges and universities do not necessarily have the common understanding on education of building production.
This paper is the third report of educational report series to facilitate richer education of building production in technical colleges and universities. By a review to nine textbooks of building production and a questionnaire survey to two hundred forty two departments of architecture, which the former two reports showed in detail, we made out the reference material for syllabus on lectures of building production. That contains a list of ninety-three educational headings of building production, two tables of three lecture types related to educational headings or construction business fields, variations of each lecture type on procedure, and instances of typical lecture procedure.
This paper aims to evaluate the reference material for syllabus, and to discuss the future lectures and texts of building production. A new questionnaire survey to ninety-six departments of architecture has made the followings clear. Firstly, the reference material for syllabus is useful for revising syllabi on lectures of building production. Especially by the list of educational headings of building production, almost lecturers of all lecture types will check whether their lectures have enough educational contents or not. Moreover, the lecturers of lecture type II are able to add educational issues to their lectures based on the table of construction business fields, and the lecturers of type III are able to build up a new lecture scenario by referring to the variations on lecture procedure.
Secondary, educational issues how to use existing buildings will become more important in future lectures of building production. Since two thirds of lecturers intend to add these issues in their lectures, that includes thirty percent of lecturers of type I although they scarcely give a lecture on the use of existing buildings. There is another approach to enrich the education on the use of existing buildings. That is to start a new series of lectures. In this case, lectures are necessary to have educational issues on renovation, facility management and real estate at least.
Finally, future texts of building production should contain figures and tables that are suitable for projection in lectures. According to our questionnaire survey, lecturers of building production in technical colleges and universities point out luck of such educational materials. On the other hand, researches on building production have shown their results by various diagrams, which represent relations of construction subjects or processes of construction site works. In order to increase educational effectiveness, future texts are necessary to develop much simpler diagrams than the originals made by researches of building production, and to collect them in themselves.
