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Design+ Building code app benefits for designers

Table 4. Themes emerging from the instructors’ responses to the interview questions
Parameters/questions Themes Codes Example
Positions Professors Architecture “Professor at the School of Architecture.”
Architectural engineer “I’m an Assistant Professor of architectural engineering.”
Interior design “Interior design professor.”
Administration Department head "I know you are the department head.”
Program director “Program director, yeah.”
Teach or conduct Teach “I just teach. I teach two different classes.”
research
Both “Mostly teach, but I do both.”
Classes and levels Classes Architecture studio “I teach fourth-year studio, which is a studio that prepares students for the
comprehensive design, which encompasses all phases of architecture.”
History & theory in “I also teach history and theory of East Asia and architecture specifically.”
architecture
Environmental control “I teach the environmental control courses.”
Sustainable design “One elective on sustainable design.”
Comprehensive design “I teach in the comprehensive design studio, which is like the capstone studio.”
Study abroad “I also teach study abroad in Asia.”
Capstone studio “I teach the senior capstone studios.”
Graphics I “I teach graphics.”
Graphics II “I have taught graphics II, which is the first year.”
Heritage of interior “Then I also teach heritage, which is a lecture class.”
design
Lighting “Lighting class for juniors.”
Facility management “I teach Facility management and design, and diversity and facility
management and design.”
Great plains “I teach two great plains idea courses.”
Thesis “I teach our graduate thesis”
Levels First/Freshman year “One which is a freshman-level class, so it’s their first interior design class.”
Second year “Second year interior design studio.”
Third year “I primarily teach third year.”
Fourth/Senior year “I teach senior level.”
Graduate “I teach graduate-level courses.”
Teaching codes Yes “So, in the past, I’ve taught building codes.”
No “No, I do not.”
Building code Year introduced Second “In the second part of the second year, they take a course where they go deeper
component to the codes into that.”
Third “Building codes are mainly covered in the third-year class.”
Fourth “Then, in the fourth year, we actually start making it more evident that the
code has a lot of guidance on their shapes, on their forms.”
Courses Methods & materials “I used to, a very long time ago, teach the methods and materials course,
where we introduced building codes.”
Studio/Capstone “So, with the senior capstone project, you know, codes of course are an integral
part of the project that the students are working on.”
Projects Commercial “But in undergrad, we went over a lot of different types of building codes for
mostly commercial.”
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