Gyeonggi Office of Education Announces Design Competition Criteria for New and Expanded Educational Facilities This Year

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education announced improvements to the operation of this year's educational facility project design competitions on the 16th.

The educational facility project design competition is a system that selects design proposals through open competition when carrying out new construction or expansion projects for educational facilities such as schools, gymnasiums, and affiliated institutions within the province, aiming to create excellent public architecture.

The Provincial Office of Education prepares and announces improvements to the operation of design competitions for school facility projects every year to enhance transparency and efficiency.

The current improvements will be applied from the announcement of competitions on the 7th of this month.

According to the improvements, a new regulation has been introduced that restricts participation in competitions for five years from the date of disposition if unfair practices are detected. Additionally, to strengthen the expertise of judges, the qualifications for judges have been adjusted and expanded to include those related to educational facilities.

Furthermore, the improvements clarify the copyrights of competition participants, guarantee appropriate compensation for awarded works, and relax the criteria for limiting the selection of awarded works (upon committee resolution).

Other improvements include ▲ storing recordings of judges for 30 days before destruction (to protect judges' personal information) ▲ easing restrictions on expressions in proposal competitions such as elevation plans and video color usage ▲ clarifying disqualification criteria ▲ clarifying evaluation procedures ▲ simplifying evaluation documents.

Yoo Myung-ho, the design competition officer at the Provincial Office of Education, emphasized, "We have improved the operation method of design competitions by lowering regulatory barriers to ensure fair competitions and making the competition process transparently open. We will continue to do our best to support high-quality design competitions in the future."

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