Collaborative Construction Information Management

Geoffrey Shen, Peter Brandon, Andrew Baldwin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781134013890
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Construction & Architectural Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Most construction projects are large and costly. Collaborative working involves two or more stakeholders sharing their efforts and resources to complete the project more effectively and efficiently.

Collaborative, integrative and multi-disciplinary teams can tackle the complex issues involved in creating a viable built environment. This tends to be looked at from three interrelated perspectives: the technological, organizational, and social; and of these the key issue is to improve productivity and enable innovation through the empowerment and motivation of people.

This book provides insights for researchers and practitioners in the building and construction industry as well as graduate students, written by an international group of leading scholars and professionals into the potential use, development and limitations of current collaborative technologies and practices. Material is grouped into the themes of advanced technologies for collaborative working, virtual prototyping in design and construction, building information modelling, managing the collaborative processes, and human issues in collaborative working.

Table of contents

• Spon Research
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Collaboration
• 2 Potential obstacles to using BIM in architectural design
• 3 Collaboration using BIM
• 4 Process modelling for planning, managing and control of collaborative design
• 5 Combining 3D models and simulations to meet the design challenges of the twenty-first century
• 6 Digital design collaboration
• 7 Towards a multi-agent approach for knowledge-based virtual construction
• 8 Update on the Swire Properties Hong Kong One Island East Tower BIM success story
• 9 IKEA pattern and revolution of the construction industry
• 10 Improving information delivery
• 11 Applying process rigour to the use of BIM in building design teams
• 12 Building information modelling in material take-off in a Hong Kong project
• 13 A data-centric, process-orientated model for effective collaborative working
• 14 Supporting collective knowledge creation in digitally mediated collaborative environments
• 15 The use of 3D computer visualisation methods in value management briefing and design studies
• 16 Accelerating collaboration
• 17 The construction game
• 18 A group support system for collaborative working in a value management workshop environment
• Index