Improvement of the Evaluation System for Public Building Development Projects

• No.20
• 2016.12.20
• Hit 744
• Youm, Chirlho Research Fellow
• Yeo, Haejin Associate Research Fellow

Today, public buildings number approximately 150,000 in Korea, and about 6,000 public buildings are newly built each year. Public buildings comprise not only a major portion of state and common property, but also daily visiting places for residents, such as community centers, borough offices, nursery facilities, schools, libraries, and so on. They are directly connected to people’s quality of life.

However, many problems regarding public buildings remain unsolved. For example, central departments customarily propose a project on a larger scale, and they usually construct buildings with similar building uses without a local demand survey. This causes a lower coefficient of utilization. Furthermore, they disregard the value of design, and proceed with the whole working process oriented administratively. “Review In Advance” is expected as a betterment of the public building planning phase by the Architecture Service Industry Promotion Act. Still, the evaluation and management system is limited to the early stage of new building projects only and is insufficient for overall evaluation of the results.