Traditionally building simulation tools are used at the design phase of the building project. These models are used to optimise various design alternatives and reduce cost. Building performance assessment for the operational phase of a buildings life cycle is sporadic, typically working from historical metered data and focusing on bulk energy assessment. Building Management Systems (BMS) do not...

Traditionally building simulation tools are used at the design phase of the building project. These models are used to optimise various design alternatives and reduce cost. Building performance assessment for the operational phase of a buildings life cycle is sporadic, typically working from historical metered data and focusing on bulk energy assessment. Building Management Systems (BMS) do not...

Product and process models are often regarded as a panacea to most problems of computer integrated construction (CIC). But the paradigm shift they are about to achieve is not imminent. Software supporting CIC relays on the definition of the conceptual building product and building process models which are, at least in a standardized form, delivered quite slowly. Working solutions to CIC may als...

A simulation study in construction management is business information that supports decision-making activities in construction planning and scheduling. To be confident in the various results of a simulation study, it is intuitive to be confident first in the collected simulation model inputs. This paper proposes properties to verify and validate simulation model inputs. The proposed V&V (Verifi...

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The focus of knowledge management (KM) in the construction industry is moving towards capability building for value creation. The study reported by this paper is motivated by recent assertions about the genesis and evolution of knowledge management capability (KMC) in the strategic management field. It attempts to shed light on the governance of learning mechanisms that develop KMC within the c...

Dynamic characteristics of a typical multistory building in Iran have been studied in two different stages of building construction, using ambient vibration tests. Finite element models have also been used to determine these characteristics and to verify test results. The results indicated the agreements and also differences between conventional theoretical models and the behaviour of real stru...

A great deal of work has been carried out in the area of information modelling to support the sharing of information across participants in a construction project. Efforts in this area include projects such as ATLAS (Bohms et al., 1994) (for large scale engineering), COMBINE (Dubois et al., 1995) (for HVAC and building design), RATAS (Björk, 1994) and ICON (Aouad et al., 1995) (for building des...

The quick growth of the population and the increasing need of the demands for developing caused the construction and production process formed with increasing technology than the past, this speeding in construction process caused the construction quality and executing engineering points and the lack of accommodation of construction to the plans increase more.  So the purpose of this article is ...