DIVERCITY IN CONTEXT

Distributed Virtual Workspace for enhancing Communication within the Construction Industry - DIVERCITY. EU IST-1999-13365 project (april 2000 - September 2002).

DIVERCITY function, form, content and behaviour must be well defined. On which domains and on which level will DIVERCITY contain knowledge about the building product under design, application programs and external information sources? How much of the building model and level of semantics does DIVERCITY contain?.

• Provide effective collaborative VB access;
• Be able to reference complete (also redundant) models of VBs and building processes;
• Integrate existing applications to the VW in a uniform and user adapted manner.

• Persons and artifacts (Process Manager, transaction managers, communication artefacts, information container managers);
• Subspaces used in different building process contexts for negotiation , collaborative work, co-ordination (resources allocation, project set-up, constraints deinitions, space states), and external access spaces (window to market, vendors, other project nodes).

• Limited direct 3D model manipulation (tesselation to minimize graphic calculations);
• Structural optimization of distributed digital model containers augmented in scattered workspaces.

The DIVERCITY framework integrates analyses and simulation programs to a building product model stored in IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) format.

• Sarshar M, Christiansson P et.al. (2003), "Distributed Virtual Workspace for enhancing Communication within the Construction Industry - DIVERCITY", EU project IST-1999-13365 Handbook February 2003.
• Christiansson P., Da Dalto Laurent, Skjaerbaek J. O., Soubra S., Marache M., 2002, " Virtual Environments for the AEC sector - The Divercity experience ". ECPPM 2002 Proceedings European Conference of Product and Process Modelling. eWork and eBusiness in AEC. (Editors: Ziga Turk, Raimar Scherer). Swtes & Zeitlinger Publishers, Lisse The Netherlands. ISBN 90 5809 507 X. 9-11 September 2002, Portoroz, Slovenia. (pp. 49-55)
• Christiansson P, Svidt K, Skjærbæk J O, Aaholm R, 2001, "User requirements modelling in design of collaborative virtual reality design systems". International Conference on Construction Information Technology. Mpumalanga, Soth Africa, 30 May - 1 June 2001. (pp. 40/1 - 40/12)