WP038: Automating Communication in Civil Engineering

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Abstract: Automating communication is a powerful tool for realizing organizational changes currently pursued by building companies. Until now however, the building industry did not go further than automating the traditional means of communication. This paper presents a new approach to open, high-level, computer-interpretable communication between project participants. "Open" means independent of the participants and their computer systems, "high-level" that no human interpretation is required for handling information and knowledge, and "computer-interpretable" that no human interaction is needed for data transfer. The STEP product-modeling approach provides a basis for this kind of communication, but it needs an extension to project-modeling and more scope layers. The authors have developed such an extended approach for integrating design and construction in building projects and present here the need for and the background of this approach, a way to ensure (computer) integration in everchanging project teams, and a test case.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 1995

Author	Luiten, Gijsbertus T.
Author	Tolman, Frits P.

Subject	CIFE
Subject	Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Automation
Subject	Communication
Subject	STEP Product-Modeling
Genre	Technical report

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dh109ym5249

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Preferred Citation: Luiten, Gijsbertus T. and Tolman, Frits P.. (1995). WP038: Automating Communication in Civil Engineering. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/dh109ym5249

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