Collaborative working in construction

✍ Scribed by Dino Bouchlaghem

• Publisher: Spon Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Examinations of emerging technologies like mobile and wireless are combined with overviews of relevant management theories, and industry case studies, to provide a comprehensive guide to introducing collaboration technologies to the built environment industries effectively. This book is underpinned by research carried out by leading academics in co-operation with practitioners using the latest technologies"-- 1. Introduction 2. Collaborative Working - Key Concepts 3. Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Collaboration in Construction 4. Multi Disciplinary Collaborative Design and Construction 5. Planning and Implementation of Collaborative working in Construction 6. Change Management 7. Collaboration Environment in Practice - Case Studies 8. Change Management Framework 9. Concluding Notes

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Collaborative Working in Construction......Page 3
Copyright Page
......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Background and context......Page 15
Collaboration and information technology......Page 16
An integrated approach to collaborative working......Page 18
Collaboration in construction......Page 20
Collaboration, cooperation and coordination......Page 21
Types of collaboration......Page 22
Challenges for collaboration......Page 24
Effective collaboration......Page 25
Barriers to effective collaboration......Page 28
Information and communication technologies......Page 29
Information management and collaboration......Page 30
Components of a holistic approach......Page 35
Background to the PIECC project......Page 40
The PIECC framework......Page 45
Introduction......Page 73
Framework A: Information Management Strategy......Page 74
Framework B: Content Lifecycle Model......Page 81
Framework C: Metadata Standard......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 87
Wireless networks......Page 88
Bluetooth networking......Page 90
Third-generation technology (3G)......Page 91
Worldwide interoperability for microwave access......Page 92
Wireless protocols......Page 93
Voice over Internet Protocol......Page 94
Mobile end user devices......Page 96
Planning and implementation of mobile collaboration......Page 97
Implementation scenarios......Page 101
Collaborative design......Page 115
Systems approach to collaborative building design......Page 117
Multidisciplinary Collaborative Design Optimisation......Page 119
The PGACO framework development......Page 122
Application of the PGACO framework......Page 128
Application of the PGACO framework to the design scenario......Page 135
Summary......Page 144
Project change management......Page 146
Organisational change management......Page 151
Introduction......Page 171
Overview of ICEMOCHA and background for its development......Page 172
Conceptual framework......Page 173
Summary......Page 183
Collaboration environments implementation case studies......Page 185
Mobile collaboration technologies case studies......Page 198
Conclusion from the case studies......Page 213
Industry perspective on effective collaboration......Page 215
Overall conclusions......Page 224
References......Page 227
Index......Page 238