Under the pressure of low “market price”, architectural design enterprises can only obtain profits through volume growth.
In recent years, China’s economy has developed rapidly.
It can be seen that the design rate has not increased or even decreased in the past 20 years, which is seriously divorced from the rapid development of the national economy.
First, intensifying vicious competition.
Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to formulate and issue a new version of the charging standard for architectural engineering design.
The actual fees charged by most survey and design enterprises have to be reduced by 50-20% on the basis of the 2002 price.
The design work extends forward and backward, and even covers early planning and later operation consulting.
Relevant suggestions in order to fully ensure a fair and orderly competitive environment in the architectural design market, cultivate high-quality design talents, and enhance the competitive strength of Chinese design enterprises, the suggestions are as follows: (1) study and formulate the new version of architectural design service content and rate standards, clarify the business classification and scope of architectural design services, and formulate rate standards accordingly.
Second, it causes brain drain and slow improvement of design level, weakening the overall competitiveness.
However, due to the immature architectural design market and serious disordered competition, the state-owned investment construction project market accounts for a large proportion, and because of audit reasons, it is still implemented in accordance with the charging standard for engineering survey and design issued in 2002, resulting in the low design fees for a long time, which has seriously affected the progress and healthy development of the industry and hindered the further improvement of China’s construction level.
Source: China Survey and design magazine..
In 2002, the GDP was 12.2 trillion yuan, and by 2021, it exceeded 110 trillion yuan, an increase of nearly 10 times.
Labor costs and raw material prices in the construction industry have also risen, but the current architectural design market is a buyer’s market and in a vicious state of competition.
New special design contents and various application procedures such as fire protection, earthquake resistance, energy conservation, BIM, industrialization, sponge city and green building have increased.
In the long run, the quality and technical accumulation of architectural design talent team will be difficult to maintain or even decline.
At the same time, architectural design achievements include many invisible production factors such as scientific research talents of design enterprises, quality management, technological innovation, standard preparation and patented inventions.
At the same time, it is difficult for enterprises to invest more money in research and development and effectively carry out architectural creation.
（2） Over the past 20 years, the architectural design industry has made continuous progress.
First, it is necessary to clarify the charging standard for the planning, site selection, planning, design, consultation and other links of the project, as well as the management coordination covering cross stages; The second is to refine the design content and reasonably calculate the workload, which should cover the new contents in recent years, such as BIM, industrialization, sponge City, green building, seismic overrun and special fire protection design, while considering the workload of deepening the design and repeated rework caused by the owner; Third, consider the type and complexity of the project, such as building height, span, seismic intensity, new system, new technology application and other factors, so that the value of the design work can be effectively reflected.
The proposal points out that architectural design is an act of innovation and creativity to create value, and the carrier of value is service.
（2） Establish an evaluation system for architectural design enterprises and reflect it in the charging standard.
Since the founding of new China, design fees have gone through the process of transition from national pricing to national guiding price, until now it is completely determined by the market (the national development and Reform Commission issued the notice on further liberalizing the price of professional services of construction projects in 2015, which clearly proposed to fully liberalize the engineering survey and design fees and implement market regulated prices).
Too much design quantity and less design time are easy to cause the decline of design quality, and even leave potential safety hazards or lead to major accidents.
The constant or even declining fees cause the salary treatment of architectural design talents to lag behind other sectors of the industry, and the brain drain is serious.
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In short, with the continuous improvement of design requirements and design standards, the actual market price of architectural design services in China is generally low, which is not conducive to the healthy and sustainable development of the architectural design industry.
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Existing problems (I) design fees have fallen instead of increasing.
It is suggested that the national development and Reform Commission should take the lead in organizing relevant departments to carry out this work.
They are the achievements of long-term investment and accumulation, and should also be reflected in the charging standard.
However, due to the lack of relevant content in the 2002 edition of the standard, these new designs can not find a basis for charging, resulting in a large number of design results to improve the quality of the building but can not be charged accordingly.
The two sessions of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference, Feng Yuan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference, a national engineering survey and design master, and chief engineer of China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., together with Wang Cuikun, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference, a national engineering survey and design master, and deputy chief engineer of China Academy of Building Sciences Co., Ltd., will be held, The proposal on formulating and issuing a new version of the charging standard for architectural engineering design as soon as possible will be submitted at the meeting, calling for the formulation and issuance of a new version of the charging standard for architectural engineering design to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the architectural design industry.
Therefore, we should formulate and issue the new charging standard for architectural engineering design as soon as possible.
The evaluation system should include the reputation of the design enterprise, taking into account the accident records of the design products and the high-quality design awards.
（3） The low fees that affect the healthy development of the architectural design industry have a negative impact on the healthy development of the architectural design industry.
