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Paper: ecce-2001-13
| Paper title: | Monitoring use of communications on a partneringproject |
| Authors: | Howard R |
| Summary: | The 'Process and product development in the building industry' (PPB) projectin Denmark has acted as a test bed for various types of innovation in buildingsocial housing since 1995. Four consortia developed methods of design andconstruction that were tested on a series of similar housing projects. Thedevelopment project was supported by the Ministries of Industry and Housing,who commissioned the ITbyg group to monitor use of information technology.Partnering between the designers and constructors, should have been verysuitable for electronic communication. DTU studied various media used duringboth design and construction stages. It carried out Social Network Analysis ofthe number of messages, and partners involved, in different methods of sharingdata. This is a case study of one consortium and describes its communicationsover a two-week period and their use to solve a design problem. It found thatelectronic communication was little used to solve the problem, but Email wasgenerally used and Project Webs were being tried. However even 5 years ofpartnering is too short for a project team to change its methods of working. |
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| Year of publication: | 2001 |
| Keywords: | Partnering, Communications, Project Web, Social Network Analysis, Housing |
| Series: | ecce:2001 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/ecce-2001-13.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Howard R (2001). Monitoring use of communications on a partneringproject. Symposium Report on the 2nd Worldwide ECCE Symposium. Information and Communication Technology in the Practice of Building and Civil Engineering, RIL - Association of Finish Civil Engineers; VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland, Building Technology, 6-8 June 2001, Espoo, Finland. , http://itc.scix.net/paper/ecce-2001-13 |
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