...Si Yee Tiew Purpose Graduate architects are assigned important tasks from the commencement to the completion of the project to acquire a detailed understanding of contractual, legislative and statutory bases before becoming architects. Previous research showed that employers have often given...

... and an understanding of contractual, legislative and statutory underpinnings. However, due to a shortage of architects, graduate architects have been assigned to perform a partial role. Architectural firms are disappointed with the quality of the graduates and still note that they have to mentor them to be competent...

...Tiew Si Yee Purpose Education focused on the creation of a knowledge base but not on how to bring such knowledge into practice had caused graduate architects to encounter reality shock and fail to perform during building contract administration. Although the effect of performance barriers...

... and the limited number of registered architects in the nation, the architect is unable to be hands-on with every project. Hence, the involvement of graduate architects to reduce the workload in building contract administration (BCA) is required. The purpose of this paper is to develop a BCA framework for graduate...