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IT i Projektering og projektstyring/ IT in design and building process control

Background

IT tools has been introduced in the building process since the end of the 1970s. Isolated digital islands have been created for design (2D/3D Cad, visualization, engineering calculations), construction (quantity take off, resource management), maintenance/use (hire administration, facility management), and recycling (components/material databases). To this we shall add access to external vendor product information, regulations, and community information.

There is now and in the future building industry a great need for persons who can take active part in specification, design and implementation of tomorrows building process support systems. A broad view and insight into the complex building process together with a broad and in some key areas deep knowledge into exisiting and coming IT tools are required in combination.

The complex project organisation of the building industry together with higher international involvement will take great advantage of the future advanced IT tools. The actual products will themselves contain embedded and co-ordinated IT support. The building process will be more integrated, though often through redundant product/process models, and information produced during the whole process will to a higher degree support the maintenance and use of he final buildings and provide subsequent experience data. We will through realistic simulations be able to get a much better support when we make important decisions in the very early requirements formulation phase of the design process. We will increase our competence in specifying, purchasing, building and maintaining the company IT systems. Finally the multimedia and virtual reality porperties of the interfaces to the computer resources will improve our way to communicate and collaborate less constrained by time and geographic position.

This 1,5 hour course will give insights into the present IT tools used in the building process given in a historic light and also outline the exptected future within the area.

Goal

To give an overall understanding of present and future IT-tools that support the building design process
85 minutes lecture and discussion.

Content

• The building and surrounding processes
• Intelligent building and digital cities
• Supply information
• Logical information containers
• Multimedia and VR
• Intranets
• Computer stored models
• The Virtual Building concept
• Team work and collaboration support.

References

• The IT in Civil Engineering site Publication list.
  
  
• Christiansson P, 1999, " Experiences from Design and Use of IT Supported Distributed Learning Environment". 3rd AECEF International Symposium (Association of Civil Engineering Faculties with participation of civil engineering faculties from non-European countries). CELTic 1999 (Civil Engineering Learning Technology in Cardiff). 8-10 September 1999, Cardiff.
  
  
• Christiansson P, 1999, " Properties of the Virtual Building". 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DURABILITY OF BUILDING MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS May 30 - June 3, 1999 Vancouver, Canada.
  
  
• Christiansson P, 1998, " Using Knowledge Nodes for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining." Lecture Notes i Artificial Intelligence 1454. Ian Smith (Ed.). "Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering. Information Technology for Design, Collaboration, Maintenence, and Monitoring." Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998. (pp. 48-59).
  
  

• Christiansson, P, 1996, "Informationsteknologi för Byggbranschen. Visioner och nuläge?./Information technology in the building sector. Visions and todays situation". Husbyggaren, nr 7-8 november 1996. Stockholm. (pp. 8-12). (In Swedish). (Only paper copy).

• Christiansson, P, 1996 "Visioner om kunskapskommunikation i globala nätverk./Visions on knowledge communication in Global Networks." Tidskriften Byggforskning, Byggforskningsrådet/ Swedisch Council for Buikding Research. December 1996. Stockholm. (Only paper copy)

• Christiansson P, Lagerstedt R, Engborg U, 1996, " User Models in Search and Navigation Systems on the Internet". AEC Applications of the Internet" AEC Systems Anaheim June 17-20. (7 pp). See also http.//delphi.kstr.lth.se/reports/aec96.html

  Lindeman Jonas, 1996, "Low Cost Distributed Virtual Reality". A system where two users can work in real or delayed time on the same 3D-model on PCs on the Internet. The model can be annotated and the surface material changed. Both visitors are represented and visible in the model and can also be guided to predefined scenes.

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