... Construction management Performance measurement Integration Information technology Researchers have attempted to address the problem highlighted above by applying integration techniques developed for use in the manufacturing industry to integrate and automate the design and construction processes...

... for the building, and estimates likely ranges of error. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Energy Input/output analysis Buildings Construction management Error cause identification In evaluating and managing the environmental impacts of construction projects, the analysis of embodied energy...

... to address a number of important requirements, some which have been alluded to in the early part of the paper. These include, amongst others: © MCB UP Limited 2001 Decision making Fuzzy logics Construction management Language In the construction industry, the adoption of concurrent...

... the building occupancy type to one of the following nine categories: Experience Construction management Design A growing interest in case‐based reasoning (CBR) research is usually seen in those fields where large libraries of “cases” have been collected. It is fuelled partially by the failure...

... saving at least one year of time. The standard form of design and build was modified to allow for a greater client control on the design and to minimise the uncertainty of the final product. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Construction industry Construction management BPR Process management...

... be” Figure 4 Multi‐disciplinary approach for construction References Austin , S. , Baldwin , A. and Newton , A. (1994 , “ Manipulating the flow of design information to improve the programming of building design ”, Construction Management and Economics , Vol. 12 , pp...