The COOCOM1 Project

KBS-Media Lab
Lund University

[projects] Last update 1995.05.29

COOperation and COMmunication in the building process - COOCOM1

Goal/Purpose:

The COOCOM project is a project to study how facility management can be performed better with the aid of information technology. The acronym COOCOM stands for Cooperation and Communication. The project focuses mainly on two stages in the building process: Early design and facility management. The early design stages come into play because early decisions are very influential on the facility management stage. The project's goals can be put briefly as in the following:

To pave the way for future IT-supported facility management
To create a better collaboration environment during the early stages of the building process
To study how computer stored knowledge and human experience can be easily accessible in project-based organizations.

Relevance:

Introduction of the CSCW and efficient knowledge handling to improve maintenance documents and activities. The project introduces new competence and technique at the participating companies especially to enforce customer contacts through advanced IT.

Novelty:

The COOCOM project is to be regarded as a pre-project that is sweeping over large areas, suggesting future directions of research. The project also covers both theoretical issues about e.g CSCW and practical questions as ISDN communication in practice. Practical set-ups with persons playing their real roles in the building process made.

Methodology:

Demonstrator development. Qualitative studies of IT-supported group behavior.

Results:

The project is reported in report (Modin, 1995) and articles (Christiansson, 1995a) and (Christiansson, 1994a). The project is aimed to continue in COOCOM2 with start at autumn 1995.

Project set-up:

Status:

Project no: SBUF 2087

Start-finish dates: 1994.07.01 - 1995.06.30

Project leader:
Paul Rehn, Skanska Software (Director), (Paul.Rehn@software.skanska.se)
Per Christiansson (Assoc. Prof), (Per.Christiansson@KSTR.LTH.SE)
(Steering and reference group etc.)

Researcher(s):
Jörgen Modin (Jörgen.Modin@kstr.lth.se)

Co-op partners: The participating organizations in the COOCOM projects are:

FFNS. Sweden's largest architect bureau with a steadily growing commitment in areas located at some distance from Sweden, as Germany and Malaysia.

LKF. A public facility manager in Lund that owns and manages several residential areas.

Telia. The main Swedish tele operator with a heavy interest in new communications solutions.

Grants/Budget/Financiers: 1994/95, 900.000 SEK, SBUF 2087;

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