Collaborative construction information management

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Geoffrey Qiping Shen is Chair Professor of Construction Management, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Land Use and Head of the Department of Building and Real Estate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and President of the Hong Kong Institute of Value Management.
Peter Brandon is Director of the Think Lab Centre for Virtual Environments, Director of Strategic Programmes in the School of Construction and Property Management and a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for research, all at the University of Salford.
Andrew Baldwin is Professor of Construction Management and Director of the Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC) at Loughborough University, and former Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Land Use at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Andrew Baldwin and Geoffrey Qiping Shen and Peter BrandonPeter BrandonArto Kiviniemi and Martin FischerRobin DrogemullerAndrew Baldwin and Simon Austin and Paul WaskettSouheil SoubraRivka OxmanE. A. Obonyo and C. J. AnumbaMartin RieseHeng LI and H. L. Guo and T. Huang and Y. K. Chan and M. SkitmoreJeffrey WixGodfried AugenbroeKenny T. C. Tse and Andy K. D. Wong and Francis K. W. WongMatthew BaconTuba KocaturkSteven MaleMohan KumaraswamyGhassan Aouad and Song Wu and Angela LeeGeoffrey Qiping Shen and Shichao Fan and John Kelly

List of contributors	p. vii
Introduction: collaborative construction information management - evolution and revolution	p. 1
1 Collaboration: a technology or human interface problem?	p. 18
2 Potential obstacles to using BIM in architectural design	p. 36
3 Collaboration using BIM: results of Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation projects	p. 55
4 Process modelling for planning, managing and control of collaborative design	p. 68
5 Combining 3D models and simulations to meet the design challenges of the twenty-first century	p. 80
6 Digital design collaboration: from BIM to BKM - enhancing human creativity	p. 92
7 Towards a multi-agent approach for knowledge-based virtual construction	p. 109
8 Update on the Swire Properties Hong Kong One Island East Tower BIM success story	p. 125
9 IKEA pattern and revolution of the construction industry	p. 146
10 Improving information delivery	p. 156
11 Applying process rigour to the use of BIM in building design teams: a review of three technologies	p. 166
12 Building information modelling in material take-off in a Hong Kong project	p. 186
13 A data-centric, process-orientated model for effective collaborative working	p. 198
14 Supporting collective knowledge creation in digitally mediated collaborative environments	p. 214
15 The use of 3D computer visualisation methods in value management briefing and design studies: the case for rapid prototyping and the impact on industry structure	p. 239
16 Accelerating collaboration: soft system imperatives for mobilising hard system developments	p. 275
17 The construction game	p. 294
18 A group support system for collaborative working in a value management workshop environment	p. 303
Index	p. 327

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