ABSTRACT
Interviews and focus group sessions were semi-structured and addressed the following themes: the role and background of a participant within the organisation, learning approaches to using the modelling tools, reasons for using the tools and methods for sharing ‘modelling’ knowledge with the client and building services engineer. Learning and application of knowledge, skill and ability can be bound by organisational and social issues. Interdisciplinary learning is viewed by policy, practice and research as being a key way to enable integrated practice in the built environment. In recent studies on the value of design studio as a mechanism of integrating disciplinary approaches, it was found that the inherent fusing and weaving of architecture and engineering components in the course, as well as the social and organisational environment prevalent in studio, enabled learning, sharing and application of effective energy modelling in projects.
