Understanding the curation of Built Environment related data, and especially CAD files, as a legal and cultural responsibility of their producers implies to rethink the competences attached to professional roles and investigation activities adopting these technologies.

In the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) sector, regulators and control authorities worldwide are urging enhanced control over exchange formats and information authoritativeness. Entirely digital phenomena such as Parametric and Procedural Design, Collaborative and Concurrent practices, open source Design exchange and object oriented modelling demand data legal management, open standard compliance, code annotation (for software migration and exchange) and contextual data enrichment of Designers.

Are those new competences provided in Higher Education?

Referring in particular to the Architecture, is Architects vocational training already addressing these renovated aspects of the professional knowledge basis?

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