Objective
The Building and Civil Engineering industry is one of the
largest industries in Europe (300 - 350 billion ECUs in
1995). However, It is an industry which is
organizationally complex and fragmented, with the
majority of companies being small to medium sized
enterprises operating in a project-centered virtual
enterprise culture. The organization and execution of
projects has tended to follow very traditional patterns
with corresponding traditional paper based information
sharing and exchange methods. This has resulted in
faltering and patchy adoption of any innovative
approaches, including those related to product and
process data technologies.
Previously, there were few drivers of industry change but
in the last decade this situation has begun to change
markedly. Clients and end-users now demand better
quality, faster delivery, at cheaper cost whilst
incorporating increasingly complex technology.
Governments have also considerably increased the
constraints on safety, waste and energy consumption.
Other industries that faced similar dispersed and
concurrent ways of working have begun to develop
integration strategies based on electronic information
sharing and exchange using open international standards
such as IS0 10303 (STEP). Information integration is
seen as a key enabler of business integration.
The CONCUR consortium, - comprising contractors: Taylor
Woodrow, IVO International and Skanska, the research and
development institutions: VTT and TNO, the specification
system developer STABU, and Universities: DUT and KTH -
proposes to develop, implement, demonstrate and deploy
integrated software environments for project information
sharing and exchange in the Building and Civil
Engineering Industry. The information models and systems
will help to:
integrate design, engineering and construction
support tools currently used by the industrial
partners,
improve communication in projects involving the
industrial partners,
implement and demonstrate concurrent design and
engineering in distributed, multi-partner projects, and
implement, evaluate and deploy electronic
information exchange and sharing, focusing on the
downstream delivery of design and tender information for
the construction stage, and the upstream availability of
alternative technical solutions to the inception
(client brief) stage.
There will be regular dissemination of information during
the course of the project to the European construction
industry community and the international vendor community
will be invited in due course to use the project results
to enhance integration their future systems.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology civil engineering
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Coordinator
UB1 2QX SOUTHALL
United Kingdom
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