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Collaborative Integrated Communications For Construction

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The primary objective of CICC is to see whether the efficiency of dispersed and temporary teams can be improved through the use of intuitive and 3D user interfaces to new and existing information and communication services.
CICC will therefore demonstrate and evaluate a range of Telepresence, WWW, Augmented Reality and Multimedia services mainly within the construction sector.
Major efficiency improvements are anticipated from two factors:
- Improving understanding by presenting the right information in the right format to the right person at the right time.
- Improving collaboration by using visualisations to encourage participants to see project issues from a common point of view.
Expected Achievements
- Demonstration of all components of the Telepresence in Construction vision within the context of trials.
- An integrated techno-economic and psycho-social evaluation of the implications of these trials.
- A demonstration of an integrated vision of how a range of Information and Communications Technologies can be integrated to support collaborative work over networks.
Expected Impact
CICC will demonstrate how a range of visualisation technologies can be used to improve understanding by all participants in the project.
- By presenting the right information in the right format at the right time, CICC will show how the full potential of all project participants can be released to improve the efficiency of the project.
- By holding electronic records of all decisions CICC will show how quality can be maintained while responsibilities are devolved within a more federal project framework.
Recent studies have indicated savings of more than 30% from a more collaborative approach to construction projects. Virtually all of these improvements are dependent on the technologies being explored in CICC.

Main contributions to the programme objectives:
Main deliverables
Trials and evaluation of telepresence, augmented reality and other multimedia services in the architecture/construction sector
Contribution to the programme
Demonstrates the improvement in speed, efficiency and quality of construction projects by the application of advanced multimedia technologies

Technical Approach Project information exists in many forms:
- Object oriented database
- Other structured data; databases and CAD
- Unstructured electronic documents
- Facts in people's heads
- The status of the actual building site
The starting point for handling this information is a visualisation that is analogous to the mental model of the project built up by the project manager. The objective is to make this model accessible to all relevant staff and thus to help the devolution of responsibility to the person most committed to each task. This visualisation will be used to support a form of intuitive data navigation that uses real construction site objects as keys and pointers into the databases and other sources of project information..
The approach is to develop and integrate the following components:
- A People and Information Finder, PIF, made up of participants web pages with availability information such as video and screen glances. The web pages and other documents are browsed in a spatial WWW/VRML landscape. The objective of the PIF is to provide an electronic replacement for the personal contact that makes team working in a shared office so effective.
- A three dimensional project model that reinforces client, project team and end user understanding of the characteristics of a particular project.
- "Augmented Reality" integration of video and virtual reality for 3D visualisation of the construction project and for linking the real site to object data from the project model and project documents
- Multimedia Communications across a variety of hardware platforms including workstations, PCs and wearable computers.
Summary of Trials
The CICC technologies are being tested in a number of complementary pilots in the construction sector and in one global manufacturing pilot. These pilots will be formally evaluated from both psycho-social and techno-economic points of view.
The Bluewater shopping centre development in the UK is being used to explore project modelling, multimedia communications across a project Intranet and a People and Information Finder. A world-wide group of Mineral Insulated Cables factories in BICC is piloting integration of the PIF with multimedia communications and photographic visualisations of the sites.
Multimedia communications, PIF and project model are being used to support construction of the new Cascais marina.
Other pilots are exploring alternative technical solutions for multimedia communications and the PIF and are making use of the Augmented Reality technology.
Key Issues
- Ensure developers of object oriented database and CAD applications provide the flexibility required to support collaborative work over networks.
- Ensure that CICC influences and is in step with emerging standards for registering the real world of the construction site with the virtual world of the CAD model
- Ensure that accessing people via their PCs and WWW technology reflects the necessary balance between openness and confidentiality and achieves an efficient balance between using documents and asking questions.
- Ensure that the organisational opportunities of collaboration over networks are recognised by construction and related sectors.

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Letzte Aktualisierung: 22 Februar 2000

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