Alshawi, M and Faraj, I (2002) Integrated construction environments: Technology and implementation. Construction Innovation, 2(1), pp. 33-51. ISSN 1471-4175
Abstract
There have been major efforts to develop the technology for integrated construction environments and the mechanisms needed to improve the collaboration between construction professionals. Evidently, the development and usage of such an environment is a complicated task. The two issues that can be among the main contributors to this are: the development of the technology and its effective implementation. These two issues are addressed separately in this paper. The paper first explains the approaches of sharing project information, followed by a review of a recent project in this area, the result of which is a distributed integrated construction environment based on the industry foundation class (IFC), capable of supporting a number of construction applications. This environment is capable of supporting a construction team to work collaboratively over the internet. It then discusses the difficulties facing the successful implementation of such environments in construction organisations. This is addressed within the context of two management models for effective implementation of IT: the resourcebased model and the Nolan model.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | effective implementation of it; ifc; integrated environments; standards for data exchange |
| Index terms: | construction organization, data exchange, construction team, construction professional, industry foundation classes, implementation, internet, collaboration |
| Subjects: | professional development, data exchange, management, project delivery, contractual arrangements, computing systems, organization, computational design |
| Topics: | Organizational Design, Digital Applications, Procurement, Project Management, Information Management, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here