Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business

Herausgeber: Perera, Srinath; Ruikar, Kirti; Ingirige, Bingunath

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Produktbeschreibung

This internationally conducted study of the latest construction industry practices addresses a broad range of Information and Communication Technology applications. This book is essential reading for all advanced students and researchers interested in how ICT is changing construction management and the construction industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9781138914582
• ISBN-10: 1138914584
• Artikelnr.: 43678060

Autorenporträt

Srinath Perera is Professor and Chair of Built Environment & Construction Management at the School of Computing Engineering & Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. Bingunath Ingirige is Professor of Project Management and Resilience at the Global Disaster Resilience Centre (GDRC), School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK. Kirti Ruikar is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Engineering at the School of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Esther Obonyo is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design and Architectural Engineering, Penn State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Exploiting e-Commerce in Construction 3. Advances in
Electronic Procurement for the Construction Industry 4. Drivers for
Electronic Procurement and Building Information Modelling in the
Construction Industry 5. Building Information Modelling and Management 6.
BIM in Practise - Industry case studies 7. Manchester Central Library and
Town Hall Extension Project: The BIM journey so far of a public sector
client 8. Project Extranets and Developments in Project Collaboration 9.
Transforming Policy Documents into Intelligent 3 Dimensional Collaboration
Tools 10. Impact of Collaboration Tools and Shaping the Future of Data
Exchange: A model for BIM communication waste 11. Towards the Establishment
of a District Information Modelling 12. Capability Maturity Modelling of
Construction e-Business Processes 13. e-Business Infrastructure and
Strategic Frameworks 14. Innovation in e-Business: Issues related to
adoption for micro and SME organisations 15. Application of Social Media in
the Construction Industry 16. Social Media in Construction: An exploratory
case study 17. Mobile Computing Applications within Construction 18.
Envisioning Buildings: Advances in construction visualisations 19. The
Multi Agent Paradigm in Construction e-Business and its Use in the Next
Generation of Data-driven Decision Making Tools 20. Conclusions: Summary,
the status quo and future trends