TY - CHAP A1 - König, Reinhard A1 - Bauriedel, Christian T1 - Computer-generated Urban Structures T2 - Proceedings of the Generative Art Conference N2 - How does it come to particular structure formations in the cities and which strengths play a role in this process? On which elements can the phenomena be reduced to find the respective combination rules? How do general principles have to be formulated to be able to describe the urban processes so that different structural qualities can be produced? With the aid of mathematic methods, models based on four basic levels are generated in the computer, through which the connections between the elements and the rules of their interaction can be examined. Conclusions on the function of developing processes and the further urban origin can be derived. KW - Computational Urban Design Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20160623-26090 SP - 1 EP - 10 CY - Milan, Italy ER - TY - CHAP ED - Professur Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren, T1 - Tag des Baubetriebs 2004 - Tagungsbeiträge "Planungshaftung in der Bauausführung" N2 - Beiträge zum Tag des Baubetriebs „Planungshaftung in der Bauausführung“ am 16 März 2004 in Weimar der Professur für Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. T3 - Schriften der Professur Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren - 06 KW - Weimar / Bauhaus-Universität / Professur Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren KW - Bauausführung KW - Planungshaftung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20081126-14490 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Planker, Markus T1 - Die Aufsichtspflicht (und Klärungspflicht) des Architekten, Architekten- und Ingenieurhaftung, Berufshaftpflichtversicherungen N2 - Der Architektenvertrag als Werkvertrag (Konsequenzen: Haftung für den Werkerfolg, keine abschließende Bestimmung des vom Architekten geschuldeten Leistungsumfanges durch den Tätigkeitskatalog etwa von § 15 HOAI), vertragliche und außervertragliche Haftungstatbestände (vertragliche Ansprüche des Auftraggebers gegen den Architekten, Haftung gegenüber Dritten aufgrund des Architektenvertrages), typische Haftungsrisiken des Architekten, insbesondere im Kostenbereich sowie für Planungs- und Objektüberwachungsfehler (Haftung des Architekten für Überschreitung der Baukosten, Architektenhaftung bei Planungs- und Objektüberwachungsfehlern), Zulässigkeit der Vereinbarung von Haftungsbeschränkungen, Berufshaftpflichtversicherung für Architekten und Ingenieure KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Haftung KW - Architektenrecht KW - Berufshaftung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7227 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Weyhe, Stefan T1 - Qualitätssicherung in der Bauausführung N2 - Baumängel und Bauschäden in der Bauwirtschaft, Auswirkungen von Liberalisierung und Deregulierung auf die Bauqualität, Grundlagen zur Theorie der Bauqualität, die Praxis der baubegleitenden Qualitätssicherung, Kritik an der baubegleitenden Qualitätssicherung, Folgerungen für neue Ansätze KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Qualität KW - Prozessfähigkeit KW - Bauschaden Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7219 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Beyer, Hartmut T1 - Sondervorschläge und Alternativen mit allen Konsequenzen N2 - Der Verfasser begründet zunächst die aktive Erarbeitung von Sondervorschlägen und Alternativen. Im zweiten Abschnitt erfolgt die inhaltliche Strukturierung der Nebenangebote. Im Folgenden werden die Probleme beim Durchsetzen der Sondervorschläge bei der öffentlichen Hand und privaten Auftraggebern und als Alternative dazu das STRABAG teamconcept beschrieben. Im letzten Bereich wird die Verantwortung des Bauunternehmens unterstrichen und ein positives Resümee gezogen. KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Ausschreibung KW - Öffentlicher Auftrag / Vergabe KW - Angebot KW - Angebotsbearbeitung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7207 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schäffler, Michael T1 - Fachkunde des Generalunternehmers versus Fachkunde des Fachbetriebes – Praxisbericht zur Ausführung eines GU-Auftrages N2 - Möglichkeiten der Projektrealisierung: Einzelvergabe der Planungs- und Bauaufgaben, Vergabe aller Planungs- und Bauaufgaben an einen Generalunternehmer. Die frühzeitige Einbindung eines erfahrenen und fachkundigen Generalunternehmers gibt dem Auftraggeber die Möglichkeit, bei minimiertem Risiko zu einer wirtschaftlich und bautechnisch optimalen Lösung seiner Bauaufgabe zu kommen. KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Ausschreibung KW - Öffentlicher Auftrag / Vergabe KW - Generalunternehmer Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7195 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kapellmann, Klaus D. T1 - Planungshaftung bei Verträgen auf der Basis funktionaler oder teilfunktionaler Leistungsbeschreibung N2 - Funktionale Leistungsbeschreibung, das auf die Planung anzuwendende Recht, vertragliche Zuteilung der Planungspflicht, fehlerhafte Auftraggeberplanung, Probleme beim Construction Management KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Deutschland / Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung für Bauleistungen KW - Ausschreibung KW - Leistungsbeschreibung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7188 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Portz, Norbert T1 - Was muss eine öffentliche Ausschreibung leisten? N2 - Voraussetzungen einer ordnungsgemäßen Ausschreibung, Beachtung des Vergaberechtssystems, Vergaberecht bei Privatisierungen, Abgrenzung zwischen VOL- und VOF-Verfahren, ordnungsgemäße Schwellenwertermittlung, Finanzierung und Planung, richtige Vergabeart, richtige Leistungs- und Aufgabenbeschreibung, ordnungsgemäße Wertung, Aufhebung der Ausschreibung, ordnungsgemäßer Vergabevermerk KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Öffentlicher Auftrag / Vergabe KW - Deutschland / Vergabe- und Vertragsordnung für Bauleistungen KW - Ausschreibung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7175 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bargstädt, Hans-Joachim T1 - Was ist die richtige Systemantwort auf die sich atomisierende Bauwirtschaft? N2 - Nur durch Aufträge entsteht das Potenzial, die hochwertigen und modernen Produkte, Verfahren und Systeme auch erfolgreich und vielfach in die Realität umzusetzen. Deshalb sind auch im traditionellen Bauwesen die Mechanismen des Marketings für die Akquisition zu analysieren und hinterfragt der Verfasser das Bild von Baubetrieben als kompetente Anbieter für alle Phasen des Bauens vom Baustoff bis zur Inbetriebnahme eines schlüsselfertigen Objektes. Systemanbieter bereiten die Basis für eine innovative und vernetzte Arbeitsweise. KW - Baubetriebslehre KW - Marketing KW - Akquisition KW - Bauwirtschaft Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7161 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wilson, Ian E. A1 - Damodaran, Leela A1 - Olphert, Wendy T1 - ICT Adoption in the Construction Sector: Education and Training Issues N2 - Organisational and human issues have been highlighted, among other issues (ICT infrastructures, legal and contractual, etc.), as key elements in enhancing the competitiveness of the construction sector. More specifically, the importance of human resources has been recognised, especially training and professional development, in order to cultivate a stable workforce. The paper provides a review of the key training needs for the construction sector with particular reference to the uptake and exploitation of new technologies and working practices, presents an action plan to address learning and training needs, and proposes an eight-stage iterative learning and training methodology. The results will be of particular interest to managers in stakeholder organisations of all sizes throughout the sector, plus academic and research bodies intending to continue construction ICT research. KW - Forschung KW - Informationstechnik KW - Europa KW - Bauindustrie KW - Ausbildung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-2013 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hassan, Tarek A1 - Shelbourn, Mark A1 - Carter, Chris T1 - Collaboration in Construction: Legal and Contractual Issues in ICT Applications N2 - The construction industry is a project-based business bringing together many different organisations to complete a desired goal. The strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has enabled this goal to be completed more effectively. Two issues require addressing, the technology itself and the implementation factors of the technology. Such implementation factors should consider, among other factors, the legal and contractual issues associated with the use of ICT, training requirements and its effects on the organisational culture. To date the legal and contractual issues have not been extensively covered, and it is recognised that the technologies have not been properly covered by any recognised legal and contractual practices. This in turn is threatening to inhibit the growth and prosperity of the use of the technology on construction projects. This paper discusses these legal and contractual issues and describes methods and tools that can be used to enable the growth of technology to be used in a legal and contractually valid environment. KW - Forschung KW - Europa KW - Informationstechnik KW - Bauindustrie KW - Vertrag Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-2005 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zarli, Alain A1 - Storer, Graham A1 - Kazi, Abdul Samad (Sami) T1 - Building a Better Future: Major Results from the ICCI Cluster Project N2 - To support research in the building sector and in order to help it move towards a new digital economy, the European Commission under the 5th Framework initiative, especially the IST programme, funded various RTD projects. The opportunity to bring these IST projects together was acknowledged so that stronger links can be created under a clustering umbrella and that, moreover, links of those projects with their RTD environment could be facilitated. This has been the objective of work carried out within the ICCI (IST-2001-33022) Cluster project. This paper introduces the main aims and objectives of the project, and then presents its principal outcomes. In a second part, it synthesises the underlying concepts, technology and tools that will make ICT-based Construction a reality in a near future, and gives recommended actions for the industry, the EC and the Construction ICT R&D in Europe, giving some benefit of this project experience to the three communities. KW - Forschung KW - Europa KW - Informationstechnik KW - Baubetrieb Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1994 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Melhem, Hani A1 - Cheng, Yousheng T1 - Numeric Prediction Algorithms for Bridge Corrosion N2 - The research reported in this article was conducted to mainly explore the two common numeric prediction techniques, the model tree and the regression tree, when used in conjunction with bagging as a wrapper method. Bagging is used to improve the prediction accuracy of these two algorithms, and results are compared with the ones obtained earlier by the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm. From the conducted experiments, both the bagged regression tree and bagged model tree produce better results than not only their corresponding regression tree and model tree alone, but also the KNN with optimal value of k equal to 7. In addition, the bagged model tree yields the lowest prediction errors and a highest correlation coefficient of 0.81. It is demonstrated that it is feasible to use the bagged model tree for engineering applications in prediction problems such as estimating the remaining service life of bridge decks. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Brückenbau KW - Korrosion KW - Prognose Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1982 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haapalainen, Päivi A1 - Naaranoja, Marja A1 - Lonka, Heikki T1 - How to Prevent Project Knowledge Management Failures in Construction - IT Enabled Communication Perspective N2 - This article discusses how the failures of construction projects could be prevented. The focus is on using IT tools in communication. The article is based on the findings of the PROLABproject. The project seeks to find solutions for how the information can effectively be used in project management, specially in construction projects, what kind of procedures help the management of the knowledge and how the obstacles for efficient ways of administrating the information can be removed. These obstacles can be either related to use of new technology or to organization culture. The paper discusses e-mail as a medium of communication with the media richness framework (Fulk & Boyd 1991) based on the interviews done with the participants of construction projects. We found out that the emails were used in both rich way and not so rich way. Obstacles of rich use of IT communication were partly technical and partly psychological. Technology acceptance model (TAM) is used to study the actual use of emails in communication. Obstacles of the use of emails were mostly individual differences like the skills to use the system or external variables like they did not have proper software to open the attachments. Also people talked about information overload. Emails often push too much information. Keywords: IT tools, Communication, Knowledge management, Construction KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Wissensmanagement KW - Konstruktionsfehler Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1977 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Flood, Ian A1 - Issa, Raja A1 - Abu-Shdid, Caesar T1 - Developments in Hyper Real-Time Simulation of Transient Heat-Flow in Buildings N2 - This paper reports on the latest results in the development of a new approach for simulating the thermal behavior of buildings that overcomes the limitations of conventional heat-transfer simulation methods such as FDM and FEM. The proposed technique uses a coarse-grain approach to model development whereby each element represents a complete building component such as a wall, internal space, or floor. The thermal behavior of each coarse-grain element is captured using empirical modeling techniques such as artificial neural networks (ANNs). The main advantages of the approach compared to conventional simulation methods are: (a) simplified model construction for the end-user; (b) simplified model reconfiguration; (c) significantly faster simulation runs (orders of magnitude faster for two and three-dimensional models); and (d) potentially more accurate results. The paper demonstrates the viability of the approach through a number of experiments with a model of a composite wall. The approach is shown to be able to sustain highly accurate longterm simulation runs, if the coarse-grain modeling elements are implemented as ANNs. In contrast, an implementation of the coarse-grain elements using a linear model is shown to function inaccurately and erratically. The paper concludes with an identification of on-going work and future areas for development of the technique. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Echtzeitverarbeitung KW - Konvektion Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1961 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fruchter, Renate A1 - Saxena, Kushagra A1 - Breidenthal, Matt T1 - Collaborative Exploration of Rich Content in Support of Knowledge Re-use N2 - A/E/C Team members, while collaborating on building projects, rely on past experiences and content through the use of project design archives (whether in paper or digital format). This leads to underutilization of potential knowledge, as decision-making of data, information, and knowledge reuse is limited by access to these archives, due to sheer size and inconvenient presentation. This paper presents an integrated solution that leverages two technologies CoMem (Corporate Memory) and iRoom (interactive Room) developed at Stanford. This addresses critical limitations, i.e., content, context, visualization and interactivity, constraining the process of collaborative exploration towards knowledge reuse and decision-making. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Wissensverarbeitung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1952 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Soibelman, Lucio A1 - O'Brien, William A1 - Elvin, George T1 - Collaborative Design Processes: A Class on Concurrent Collaboration in Multidisciplinary Design N2 - The rise of concurrent engineering in construction demands early team formation and constant communication throughout the project life cycle, but educational models in architecture, engineering and construction have been slow to adjust to this shift in project organization. Most students in these fields spend the majority of their college years working on individual projects that do not build teamwork or communication skills. Collaborative Design Processes (CDP) is a capstone design course where students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Florida learn methods of collaborative design enhanced by the use of information technology. Students work in multidisciplinary teams to collaborate from remote locations via the Internet on the design of a facility. An innovation of this course compared to previous efforts is that students also develop process designs for the integration of technology into the work of multidisciplinary design teams. The course thus combines both active and reflective learning about collaborative design and methods. The course is designed to provide students the experience, tools, and methods needed to improve design processes and better integrate the use of technology into AEC industry work practices. This paper describes the goals, outcomes and significance of this new, interdisciplinary course for distributed AEC education. Differences from existing efforts and lessons learned to promote collaborative practices are discussed. Principal conclusions are that the course presents effective pedagogy to promote collaborative design methods, but faces challenges in both technology and in traditional intra-disciplinary training of students. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Computer Supported Cooperative Work Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1948 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fruchter, Renate A1 - Demian, Peter A1 - Saxena, Kushagra T1 - Discovery of Re-usable Architecture/Engineering Construction Knowledge Trough Exploration of a Corporate Memory : Chance Discovery of Reusable AEC Knowledge from a Corporate Memory N2 - Re-using knowledge in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms can lead to greater competitive advantage, improved designs, and more effective management of constructed facilities. This paper discusses the importance of exploration and discovery of reusable knowledge from a corporate archive as opposed to simple search and retrieval. We describe and illustrate through a scenario of use an exploration framework and prototype, CoMemTM that formalizes the added value of exploration in the process of knowledge reuse. We discuss two exploration activities: (i) Breadth- Only overview exploration that assist a user to rapidly localize pockets of re-usable knowledge from the large corporate archive and (ii) Iterative breadth-depth exploration that enables a user to identify those re-usable components of the Corporate Memory that may yield design issues that were not originally considered. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Wissensverarbeitung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1932 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lau, Gloria A1 - Law, Kincho T1 - An Information Infrastructure for Comparing Accessibility Regulations and Related Information from Multiple Sources N2 - This paper describes a research project that addresses the difficulties in dealing with regulatory documents such as national and regional codes. These documents tend to be voluminous, heavily cross-referenced, possibly ambiguous and even conflicting at times. There are often multiple documents that need to be consulted and satisfied; however it is a difficult task to locate all of the relevant provisions. In addition, sections dealing with the same or similar conceptual ideas sometimes lay down conflicting requirements. We propose a framework for regulation representation, analysis and comparison with emphasis on the extraction of similarities between provisions. We focus on accessibility regulations, whose intent is to provide the same or equivalent access to a building and its facilities for disabled persons. An XML regulatory repository is developed to extract structural as well as non-structural features from government regulations to help user understanding and computational analysis. A similarity analysis is performed between different sources of regulations. In order to achieve a better comparison between provisions, we employ a combination of feature matching and structural analysis. Results are shown on comparisons between American and European codes, as well as on the domain of electronic-rulemaking. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Wissensmanagement KW - Standardisierung KW - Behinderte Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1922 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fruchter, Renate A1 - Chao, Yunn Chyi T1 - AEC Global Teamwork: Emergent Work Processes N2 - This ethnographic study reports on emerging work processes and practices observed in the AEC (Architecture/Engineering/Construction) Global Teamwork program, i.e., what people experience when interacting with and through collaboration technologies, why people practice in the way they do, how the practice fits into the environment and changes the work patterns. It presents the experience of two high-performance typical but extreme AEC teamwork cases adopting and adapting to collaboration technologies and how these technologies in practice impact their work processes. The findings illustrate the importance of collaboration technologies in cross-disciplinary, global teamwork. Observations indicate that high performance teams that use the collaboration technologies effectively exhibit collaboration readiness at an early stage and manage to define a “third way” to meet the demands of the cross-disciplinary, multi cultural and geographically distributed AEC workspace. The observations and implications represent the blueprint for yearly innovations and improvements to the design of the AEC Global Teamwork program. KW - Hochschulbildung KW - Entscheidungsunterstützung KW - Computer Supported Cooperative Work Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1912 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fahrig, Torsten A1 - Nachtwey, Björn A1 - Gellert, Sebastian T1 - A Product Model based Approach to Interactive CAE Design Optimization N2 - We present a software prototype for fluid flow problems in civil engineering, which combines essential features of Computational Steering approaches with efficient methods for model transfer and high performance computing. The main components of the system are described: - The modeler with a focus on the data management of the product model - The pre-processing and the post-processing toolkit - The simulation kernel based on the Lattice Boltzmann method - The required hardware for real-time computing KW - Produktmodell KW - Simulation KW - Bautechnik KW - Entwurf KW - Optimierung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1901 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Yamabe, Yuichiro A1 - Kawamura, Hiroshi A1 - Tani, Akinori T1 - Optimal Design for Recurrent Architecture Network Harmonized with Circulation-type Societies by Applying Genetic Algorithms to Multiagent Model N2 - In this paper, a circulation-type society is expressed by recurrent architecture network described with multi-agent model which consists of the following agents: user, builder, reuse maker, fabricator, waste disposer, material maker and earth bank (see Fig.1). Structural members, materials, resources and monies move among these agents. Each agent has its own rules and aims, regarding structural damages, lifetime, cost reduction, numbers of structural members and structural systems. Reasonable prices of members (fresh, reused, recycled and disposed) can be optimized by GAs in this system considering equal distribution of monies among agents. KW - Mehragentensystem KW - Lernendes System KW - Genetischer Algorithmus Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1892 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tsutsumi, Kazutoshi A1 - Hashimoto, Hiromi T1 - A Development of the Building Kansei Information Retrieval System N2 - The purpose of this research is to develop the method to retrieve a building name from the impression of the building. First, the images of the building are registered as database by the questionnaire. Next, the images of the objective building are compared with the degree of matching in image databases, and the building with high synthetic matching degree is retrieved. This system could get a good retrieval result. Moreover, image processing was done, and image databases are trained by neural network from the amount of characteristics of the image, and the retrieval system by image processing was examined. KW - Mehragentensystem KW - Lernendes System KW - Informationssystem Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1884 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kang, Julian A1 - Lho, Byeong-Cheol A1 - Kim, Jeong-Hoon T1 - XML-based Vector Graphics: Application for Web-based Design Automation N2 - Most retaining walls and box culverts built for arterial road construction are simple, and the design process of these structures is often repetitive and labor-intensive because they are so similar in structural configuration. Although some integrated design automation systems developed for retaining walls and box culverts have expedited the design process of these structures, the process of collecting and distributing the resultant engineering documents has not been fully integrated with the computer applications. We have been developing a Web-based design automation system to manage the resultant documents as well as to speed up the repetitive design process. Manipulation of engineering drawings in the Web page is one of the critical functions needed for Web-based design automation. eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and XML-based vector graphics are expected to facilitate the representation of engineering drawings in the Web page. In this paper, we present how we used XML and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to compose engineering drawings and represent them in the Web page. XML Data Island we designed to define drawing components turned out effective in manipulating the engineering drawings in the Web page. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - XML Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1872 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Molkenthin, Frank T1 - Web-based Collaborative Engineering based on Information Sharing - HydroWeb: An Education Experiment in the Internet N2 - This paper describes the concept and experiences of the international Open Distance Learning Course ‘HydroWeb’. This course deals with the introduction of Web-based Collaborative Engineering in standard education programmes of water related engineering and civil engineering based on information sharing. Organized under the umbrella of IAHR and ETNET21 this course is collaboration from several universities from all over the world. Started in 1999 the course demonstrates the potential and innovative opportunities of Web-Technology in education, research and engineering: Students from the different partner universities form small distributed teams to solve a given engineering problem in a time window of two weeks. To overcome the spatial distribution the students apply modern Web technology such as video conferencing, application sharing and document management. All results as well as the final reports are presented as Web document on a shared Web-based project platform (http://www.hydro-web.org). Besides the experiences to apply standard Web tools and working methods based on information sharing instead the conventional information exchange in the daily engineering work the students improve their soft skills operate successfully in international and interdisciplinary project environments as part of the ‘Technical Culture’ of nowadays. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Informationsaustausch KW - Internet Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1869 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Miles, John A1 - Taylor, Mark A1 - Anumba, Chimay T1 - VRML Virtual Worlds - An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor for GUI's? N2 - Metaphors are commonly used by software developers in the creation of GUI's. This paper looks at the use of multi-user VRML to create virtual metaphors, developing a conceptual design tool that can be used intuitively with little or no training. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Graphische Benutzeroberfläche KW - VRML Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1855 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Petzold, Frank A1 - Donath, Dirk T1 - The building as a container of information : the starting point for project development and design formulation N2 - For planning in existing built contexts, the building survey is the starting point for initial planning proposals, for the diagnosis and documentation of building damages, for the creation of objectives catalogues, for the detailed design of renovation and conversion measures and for ensuring fulfilment of building legislation, particularly by change of use and refitting. An examination of currently available IT-tools shows insufficient support for planning within existing contexts, most notably a deficit with regard to information capture and administration. This paper discusses the concept for a modular surveying system (basic concept, separation of geometry from semantic data, and separation into sub-systems) and the prototypical realisation of a system for the complete support of the entire building surveying process for existing buildings. The project aims to contribute to the development of a planning system for existing buildings. ... KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Lebenszyklus KW - Bauwerk Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1848 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Berkhahn, Volker A1 - Kinkeldey, Christoph A1 - Schleinkofer, Matthias T1 - Re-Engineering Based on Construction Drawings - From Ground Floor Plan to Product Model N2 - For the management or reorganisation of existing buildings, data concerning dimensions and construction are necessary. Often these data are given exclusively by paper-based drawings and no digital data such as a computer based product model or even a CAD-model are available. In order to perform mass calculation, damage mapping or a recalculation of the structure these drawings of the building under consideration have to be analysed manually by the engineer. This is a very time-consuming job. In order to close this gap between drawings of an existing building and a digital product model an approach is presented in this paper to digitise a drawing, to build up geometric and topologic models and to recognise construction parts of the building. Finally all recognised parts are transformed into a three-dimensional geometric model which provides all necessary geometric information for the product model. During this import process the semantics of a ground floor plan has to be converted into a 3D-model. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Dreidimensionales CAD KW - Produktmodell Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1832 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wender, Katrin A1 - Donath, Dirk A1 - Petzold, Frank T1 - Preparation and provision of building information for planning within existing built contexts N2 - A prerequisite for planning within existing built contexts is precise information regarding the building substance, its construction and materials, possible damages and any modifications and additions that may have occurred during its lifetime. Using the information collected in a building survey the user should be able to “explore” the building in virtual form, as well as to assess the information contained with regard to a specific planning aspect. The functionality provided by an information module should cover several levels of information provision ranging from ‘simple retrieval’ of relevant information to the analysis and assessment of stored information with regard to particular question sets. Through the provision of basic functionality at an elementary level and the ability to extend this using plug-ins, the system concept of an open extendable system is upheld. Using this modular approach, different levels of information provision can be provided as required during the planning process. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Gebäude KW - Nutzungsänderung KW - Altbaumodernisierung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1829 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tonn, Christian A1 - Wolkowicz, Christian A1 - Thurow, Torsten T1 - Plausibility in Architectural Design - DOMEdesign – Software Support for the formal shaping and architect-oriented design of shell structures N2 - Complex gridshell structures used in architecturally ambitious constructions remain as appealing as ever in the public realm. This paper describes the theory and approach behind the software realisation of a tool which helps in finding the affine self-weight geometry of gridshell structures. The software tool DOMEdesign supports the formal design process of lattice and grid shell structures based upon the laws of physics. The computer-aided simulation of suspension models is used to derive structurally favourable forms for domes and arches subject to compression load, based upon the input of simple architectonic parameters. Irregular plans, three-dimensional topography, a choice different kinds of shell lattice structures and the desired height of the dome are examples of design parameters which can be used to modify the architectural design. The provision of data export formats for structural dimensioning and visualisation software enables engineers and planners to use the data in future planning and to communicate the design to the client. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Schale Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1812 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Petzold, Frank A1 - Bartels, Heiko A1 - Donath, Dirk T1 - New techniques in Building Surveying N2 - Building activities in the construction industry in Germany increasingly concentrate on building measures in or involving the existing built environment. Before planning can begin, buildings must be surveyed in whole or in part with the surveying of geometric data playing a dominant role. The geometric survey is typically undertaken using geodetic or photogrammetric measuring techniques and equipment that have been adapted for use in building surveying. Accordingly appropriate technical knowledge is required in order to be able to operate them as well as a considerable financial investment. Such equipment and surveying methods are usually adaptations from other disciplines. The paper discusses and presents approaches to developing “new” equipment for building surveying, devised with the needs of building surveying in mind – redesigns or new designs for surveying tools. The designs are the result of an inter-disciplinary project between the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of Product Design at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Bausubstanz Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1803 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ren, Aizhu A1 - Shi, Jianyong A1 - Xu, Yun T1 - Modeling of Buildings and Roads for Urban Applications based on 2D Digital Maps N2 - Three-dimensional models of urban objects play an important role in the urban applications such as urban planning, environmental concerning, or urban disaster mitigations. While the modeling of urban objects is time consuming and storage costing. This paper presents solutions for this. Buildings with regular shapes and plane roofs are constructed into computer models by identifying of graphic elements from the digital maps of urban area to get building base plane and building heights. Buildings with irregular shapes and non-plane roofs are constructed into computer models by employment of a specific system developed by the authors. Road objects and topologies are constructed into computer models by employment of specific algorithms. The solutions presented in this paper has been used in the development of urban disaster mitigation system for Shantou, China. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Geoinformationssystem Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1791 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schink, Claus-Jürgen A1 - Koch, Volker T1 - Interdisciplinary Cooperation Modules in Mobile Networks N2 - The contribution describes the didactical integration of wireless access networks for the campus of the University of Karlsruhe in the education of architects and engineers. It focuses on the development of an interdisciplinary communication network to encourage and promote the communication and collaboration between students. The project assumes that significant learning progresses in net-based learning scenarios are based upon the synchronous and asynchronous cooperation between the students themselves. The remote cooperation across borders of disciplines makes high demands on capacity in communicating and cooperating of the involved persons as well as on the supporting tools. Therefore, the collective acquisition of knowledge and cooperation has to be trained intensively during the studies. Based on the design and project oriented cooperation platform netzentwurf.de the authors developed the tools “Jobadmin“ to administrate multidisciplinary workgroups, the “Swarm Knowledge Catalogue“ to collect and store knowledge and “LivingCampus“, an instrument providing basic services for dynamic communication. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Mobile Computing KW - Rechnernetz Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1788 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hauschild, Thomas A1 - Borrmann, André A1 - Hübler, Reinhard T1 - Integration of Constraints into Digital Building Models for Cooperative Planning Processes N2 - The uniqueness and the long life cycle of buildings imply a dynamically modifiable building model. The technological foundation for the management of digital building models, a dynamic model management system (MMS), developed by our research group, allows to explicitly access and to modify the object model of the stored planning data. In this paper, the integration of constraints in digital building models will be shown. Constraints are conditions, which apply to the instances of domain model classes, and are defined by the user at runtime of the information system. For the expression of constraints, the Constraint Modelling Language (CML) has been developed and will be described in this paper. CML is a powerful, intuitively usable object-oriented language, which allows the expression of constraints at a high semantic level. A constrained-enabled MMS can verify, whether an instance fulfils the applying constraints. To ensure flexibility, the evaluation of constraints is not implicitly performed by the systems, but explicitly initiated by the user. A classification of constraint types and example usage scenarios are given. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Constraint KW - Modellierung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1775 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Petersen, Michael A1 - Diaz, Joaquin T1 - Integrated planning of buildings based on computer models in project communication systems N2 - The increasing demands in building and civil engineering – with regard to the growing amount of legal requirements and the needs of a flexible usage of the building - requires an optimisation of all processes during the planning and construction phases. This aim can be only reached by transferring of innovative information and communication technologies in the field of cooperation of all partners in a building project. In this article the enhancement of the existing planning processes based on an improved information management is introduced. Since the late 90ies the availability of hardware and software infrastructures for a networkbased cooperation, e.g. email, in small and middle-sized companies increased the problems of an unstructured communication in the planning and construction processes. These problems have not been solved by the usage of the upcoming project communication systems either, which are often used as a simple medium for data transfer. Because of the easy way of distributing documents to all planning partners a huge amount of files and subsequent versions can be stored so that the planners often have to scope with an information overflow. The underlying hierarchical structures based on simple files stored in tree views are not sufficient for an adequate representation of the different specific views of the planners and the management of relationships between the three information domains building structure, costs and time schedules. .. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Integrierte Planung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1762 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rodriguez, Adhamina T1 - Information Exchange in The Construction Industry : The Particular Case of Green Buildings N2 - Construction is a conservative industry that over the last twenty ye ars has experienced drastic changes in the way that interdisciplinary teams interact to design and execute a project. In this article we offer a general overview of how the main participants cooperate in the different phases of a construction project, and which are some of the main areas for communication improvement. We also explore the communication tools used in the exchange of information, and identify the main causes of information breakdown. The general framework of this study is of application to both standard and green projects. At the end of the article we discuss the peculiarities of green buildings. Our goal is to offer a series of industry insights derived from the perspective of a general contractor aimed at identifying the areas where contributions in computing and information exchange could have a greater impact on the successful completion of a project. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Informationsaustausch Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1757 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tsou, Jin-Yeu A1 - Lam, Selina A1 - Wong, Wing Kin Gary T1 - Design of Rapidly Assembled Isolation Patient Ward – IT-Supported Collaborative Design Process between Architects and Medical Officers N2 - An important feature of the 2003 SARS outbreak in Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong was that many health care workers (HCWs) developed SARS after caring for patients with SARS. This has been ascribed to inadequate or ineffective patient isolation. However, it is difficult for dense cities to provide sufficient isolation facilities within a short period of time. This has raised concerns from the public for new strategies in the planning and design of isolation facilities. Considering that SARS or other infectious diseases could seriously damage our society’s development, isolation facilities that could be rapidly and economically constructed with appropriate environmental controls are essential. For this reason, the design team of the Department of Architecture collaborated with a special task force from the Faculty of Medicine, who are the frontline medical officers treating the SARS patients, to design Rapidly Assembled Isolation Patient Wards. Both architecture and medicine are well established disciplines, but they have little in common in terms of the mode of knowledge construction and practice. This induced much intellectual exploration and research interest in conducting this study. The process has provided an important reference for cross disciplinary studies between the architectural and medical domains. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Krankenhaus KW - SARS Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1748 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - O'Brien, William A1 - El-Mashaleh, Mohammad T1 - An Empirical Study Relating Construction Firm Performance and IT Utilization N2 - This paper examines the impact of information technology (IT) utilization on construction firm performance. Based on empirical data collected from 74 US construction firms, the analyses provide evidence that IT has a positive impact on overall firm performance, schedule performance, and cost performance. Firm performance is a composite score of several metrics of performance: schedule performance, cost performance, customer satisfaction, safety performance, and profit. No relationship is found between IT utilization and customer satisfaction, safety, or profit, although this may be due to limitations of the study given strong correlations between IT utilization and cost and schedule performnance. The empirical evidence of positive association between performance and IT use provided by this research is significant to both construction practice and research literature. This evidence should encourage firms to adopt and invest in IT tools. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Informationstechnik KW - Unternehmen Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1739 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Thurow, Torsten A1 - Donath, Dirk T1 - A vision of an adaptive geometry model for computer-assisted building surveying N2 - The paper describes a concept for the step-by-step computer-aided capture and representation of geometric building data in the context of planning-oriented building surveying. Selected aspects of the concept have been implemented and tested as prototypes. The process of step-by-step capture and representation is determined by the order in which the user experiences the building. Only the information that the user knows (can see) or can reasonably deduce is represented. In addition approaches to the flexible combination of different measuring techniques and geometric abstractions are described which are based upon geodetic computational adjustment. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Bauaufnahme Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1722 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jianping, Zhang A1 - Dongping, Xiang A1 - Zhiliang, Ma T1 - A survey on application of information technologies in Chinese construction industry N2 - The construction industry is a supportive industry in China. IT (information technolgy), including computer technology and communication technology, as a whole is regarded as the most important means to upgrade the construction industry so that research projects were organized by Chinese government to further the application of IT in the construction industry. This study originated from one of the projects and is aimed at grasping the general situation on the application of IT in the construction industry. A questionnaire was designed for the survey, which used stratified proportional sampling method, and was carried out under the help of a government agency. This study can not only provide sound foundation for the government to make relative policies, but also reveal references for the firms in construction industry to apply IT in their business. This paper presents the preliminary result of the survey. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - China Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1717 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kitagawa, Estuji A1 - Tanaka, Shigenori A1 - Furuta, Hitoshi T1 - A research about the automatic construction of Web/3D model house from 2D digital pictures N2 - In recent years, the survey is performed for repair, such as a bridge and a building built in past, spending great expense. And it is anxious for the survey technique that doesn’t need cost and time more. Then, we made an idea of the technique of precise 3D model creation by 2D pictures. However, the technique of performing the improvement in accuracy of convergent photographing and automatic acquisition of corresponding points was not established. Therefore, in this research, we try to obtain a semi-automation of corresponding points acquisition from initial corresponding points and the improvement in accuracy of convergent photographing. Moreover, we applied the research to the used house of Japanese real estate, and the applicable field was selected as the high needs of the residence of 3D model. And we developed the system that everyone could create Web / 3D model house by VRML easily without requiring expensive apparatuses or expertise. KW - Architektur KW - Verteiltes System KW - Dreidimensionales CAD Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1702 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - König, Markus A1 - Klinger, Axel A1 - Berkhahn, Volker T1 - Structural Correctness of Planning Processes in Building Engineering N2 - The planning of projects in building engineering is a complex process which is characterized by a dynamical composition and many modifications during the definition and execution time of processes. For a computer-aided and network-based cooperation a formal description of the planning process is necessary. In the research project “Relational Process Modelling in Cooperative Building Planning” a process model is described by three parts: an organizational structure with participants, a building structure with states and a process structure with activities. This research project is part of the priority program 1103 “Network-Based Cooperative Planning Processes in Structural Engineering” promoted by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Planning processes in civil engineering can be described by workflow graphs. The process structure describes the logical planning process and can be formally defined by a bipartite graph. This structure consists of activities, transitions and relationships between activities and transitions. In order to minimize errors at execution time of a planning process a consistent and structurally correct process model must be guaranteed. This contribution considers the concept and the algorithms for checking the consistency and the correctness of the process structure. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Planungsprozess KW - Konsistenz Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1690 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Perevalova, Julia A1 - Pahl, Peter Jan T1 - Structural and Functional Dependence of Objects in Data Bases N2 - Let the information of a civil engineering application be decomposed into objects of a given set of classes. Then the set of objects forms the data base of the application. The objects contain attributes and methods. Properties of the objects are stored in the attributes. Algorithms which the objects perform are implemented in the methods of the objects. If objects are modified by a user, the consistency of data in the base is destroyed. The data base must be modified in an update to restore its consistency. The sequence of the update operations is not arbitrary, but is governed by dependence between the objects. The situation can be described mathematically with graph theory. The available algorithms for the determination of the update sequence are not suitable when the data base is large. A new update algorithm for large data bases has been developed and is presented in this paper. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Objektorientierung KW - Datenbank Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1683 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Keller, Martin A1 - Antoniadis, George A1 - Menzel, Karsten T1 - Resource Management for the Construction Industry N2 - The management of resources is an essential task in each construction company. Today, ERP systems and e-Business systems are available to assist construction companies to efficiently organise the allocation of their personnel and equipment within the company, but they cannot provide the company with the idle resources for every single task that has to be performed during a construction project. Therefore, companies should have an alternative solution to better exploit expensive resources and compensate their fixed costs, but also have them available at the right time for their own business activities. This paper outlines the approach taken by the EU funded project “e-Sharing” (IST-2001-33325) to support resource management between construction companies. It will describe requirements for the management of construction resources, its core features, and the integration approach. Therefore, we will outline the approach of an integrated resource type model supporting the management and classification of construction equipment, construction tasks and qualification profiles. The development is based on a cross-domain analysis and evaluation of existing models. ... KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Betriebsmittel Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1679 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Huhnt, Wolfgang T1 - Progress Measurement in Planning Processes on the Base of Process Models N2 - This paper presents a specific modeling technique that is focused on preparing planning processes in civil engineering. Planning processes in civil engineering are characterized by some peculiarities so that the sequence of planning tasks needs to be determined for each planning project. Neither the use of optimized partial processes nor the use of lower detailed and optimized processes guarantee an optimal overall planning process. The modeling technique considers these peculiarities. In a first step, it is focused on the logic of the planning process. Algorithms based on the graph theory determine that logic. This approach ensures consistency and logical correctness of the description of a planning process at the early beginning in its preparation phase. Sets of data – the products of engineers like technical drawings, technical models, reports, or specifications – form the core of the presented modeling technique. The production of these sets of data requires time and money. This is expressed by a specific weighting of each set of data in the presented modeling technique. The introduction of these weights allows an efficient progress measurement and controlling of a planning project. For this purpose, a link between the modeling technique used in the preparation phase and the execution phase is necessary so that target and actual values are available for controlling purposes. The present paper covers the description of this link. An example is given to illustrate the use of the modeling technique for planning processes in civil engineering projects. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Prozessmodell KW - Bauablauf Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1664 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zaneldin, Essam T1 - Investigate the Impact of Different Resource Allocation Strategies on the Design of Building Projects Using Simulation N2 - The design of building projects involves several types of resources such as architects, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and draftsmen, among others. For design firms to stay in business in this very competitive market, they need to manage their resources in a way that improves productivity and cost effectiveness. This task, however, is not simple and requires thorough analysis of process-level operations, resource use, and productivity. Typically, these operational aspects are the responsibility of the design office manager who assigns available resources to the different design projects to save time and lower design expenses. It is noted that limited studies have been carried out in the literature to model overall organizational operations and behavioral aspects, particularly in firms specialized in the design of building projects. In an effort to simplify the modeling process, a simplified modeling and simulation tool is used in this research. A simulation model representing an actual design office was developed assuming that the office performs designs for small, medium, and large size building projects. The developed model was used to simulate several alternatives and examine various resource assignment strategies. The simulation was conducted over ten years and the resulting productivity and income was measured. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Simulation KW - Bauvorhaben Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1658 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rueppel, Uwe A1 - Klauer, Thomas T1 - Internet-based Workflow-Management for Civil Engineering Projects N2 - The growing competition pressure in the building industry increases the demands on the design and construction processes in respect to economical, technical and time aspects. These demands require efficient improvements of the value-added chain, which can be realized mainly with the usage of innovative information- and communication-technologies. To support the collaboration of all participants involved in a certain building project the Workflow-Management-System “BauKom-Online” has been developed. In the focus of the system is to support the coordination of the participants and their information exchange. Such a software-method is well suited to ensure a high quality planning process. The modelling of business-processes enables a better self-comprehension of the participants work and helps to enhance the project performance. The system architecture of BauKom-Online contains two basic components: the processmodelling tool and the workflow-engine. The process-model contains of activities and states of the planning and construction processes and their relations. These connected processes compose the workflow. Such a process-model for engineering purposes has to satisfy several needs, e.g., the consideration of planning and building alternatives, dynamic changes of the model during execution of the project and the linkage to further technical objects like costs, building structure, specifications and documentmanagement. Furthermore, the scheduling of the project can be done within the process-model and can be visualized as a Gantt-diagram. ... KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Prozessmanagement KW - Internet Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1647 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Biltchouk, Irina A1 - Pahl, Peter Jan T1 - Interaction of Data Bases and Graphical Interfaces in Civil Engineering N2 - Applications for civil engineering tasks usually contain graphical user interfaces for the engineering processes. Persistent objects of the applications are stored to data bases. The influence of the interaction between a graphical user interface and a data base for the development of an civil engineering application is investigated in this paper. A graphic application for the linear elastic analysis of plane frames, which was previously developed with standard tools of the Java platform, is compared to a redesigned implementation using a generalized data base for persistent objects. The investigation leads to the following results : - A strict distinction between persistent and transient objects influences the class structure of an application, in particular the class structure of a graphical user interface. - The structure of an application depends on the logic for updating of references to persistent and transient graphical objects after an application is read from a file. - The complexity of the reference management can usually be handled better by just in time referencing associated with String - identifiers rather than by automated referencing associated with Name - identifiers. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Graphische Benutzeroberfläche KW - Datenbank Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1636 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Palm, Johan T1 - Integrated Engineering Workflow focused on the Structural Engineering in the Industrial Environment N2 - The engineering and construction industry has been slow to exploit the full potential of information technology. The industry is highly fragmented, price sensitive, risk-adverse, and profit margins are small. Each project is unique with a small amount of technological innovation opportunities to capitalise on from one project to the next. Technological innovations that have been taking place are just simulating the old traditional paper workflow. Engineering information in digital form is being conveyed using traditional paper representations, which have to be interpreted by humans before the information can be used in other applications, thereby creating ‘islands of information’. It can be seen that poorly implemented IT strategies are duplicating paperwork, rather than reducing or eliminating it (Crowley et al., 2000). This paper will introduce the Integrated Engineering Workflow (IEW) concept to re-organise a structural discipline working on multi-disciplinary projects so as to maximise the advantages offered by new information technology. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Prozessmanagement KW - Ingenieurbau Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1625 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rueppel, Uwe A1 - Gutzke, Thomas T1 - Groundwater-Monitoring based on dynamic co-operative eGovernment-Processes N2 - As a result of the pilot-project “Grundwasser-Online” the supervision and the active controlling of large monitoring- and catchment-areas are realised by a co-operative integration of all related institutions, a synchronisation-process to combine all distributed data into one central server database, and a high-level eGovernment-Service to provide evaluated information over the internet. Based on this software system the local authorities are able to supervise the groundwater-levels and to find adequate decisions, which finally result in official permissions for the usage of groundwater-reservoirs by the water supply companies. KW - Baubetrieb KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Grundwasser KW - Monitorüberwachung Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-1611 ER -