**10.3 Create relationship between the AEC sector and emerging technologies associated with BIM education in an architectural academic programme**

Close collaboration between the AEC sector and academia is fundamental to the two-way exchange between training and reality. The experience of cooperative professionals from the AEC sector with teaching qualifications is fundamental to prompt students and develop their personal skills in relation to the AEC sector requirements. Also, it is preferable to engage stakeholders and professionals in the case studies of the projects to provide advice on how to improve the AEC sector with emerging technologies associated with BIM. Close collaboration between employers and educators in the AEC sector will enable the creation of a stronger shared vision in the training of BIM integration with emerging technologies. Connecting the AEC sector and architectural academic programme will improve traditional teaching.

#### **10.4 Strengthening the qualifications of teaching staff**

It is very important to build a team of teachers with the ability to solve complex engineering problems. Teaching staff must strengthen their learning and practice in order to meet the needs of new knowledge, theories and technologies. In particular, they must learn BIM integration with emerging technologies. Also, teachers who truly understand the innovation of technology should be hired, to reflect these qualifications on the development of student's skills and their innovative ability. Faculty members should have: Share recent ideas that reinforce student success, explore new tools and techniques for teaching, interact with innovative and emerging technologies and Acquire knowledge of how to grasp and apply technology for learning.

#### **10.5 Provide teaching resources**

Teaching BIM integration with emerging technologies needs to provide textbooks, tutorials, Computer labs, strong internet and other electronic and technological equipment. BIM typically requires regularly new and upgraded hardware to run the processing-intensive software.
