The problems that we are dealing with in construction IT were known in the sixties, and are, 30 years later, still not solved. The hypothesis is that the reasons are: (1) the scientific base for construction IT, its paradigmatic framework, is not explicit and (2) that the framework, as implicitly present through research practice, is an incomplete one and that (3) a paradigm shift is needed. In...

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There are several terms that identify proposed paradigms for the way things ought to be carried out in the health sciences: evidence-based, cause-and-effect, diagnostic gold-standard, patient-centred-outcomes, risk assessment, cost/benefit/risk, and efficacious/effective. Collectively these paradigms exhibit varying degrees of interdependence, and have the potential for changing the way dentist...