The construction industry has been traditionally recognised as a fragmented sector associated with a poor level of implementation and penetration of Information Communication Technology (ICT) by Small to Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs). Cloud computing is a collective term that can facilitate the ability to collaborate within a central repository that can act as a base for interoperability betwe...

The building industry is undergoing a significant evolution, with increasing use of digital models during the design process and subsequent lifecycle of a building. These models, which span multiple design disciplines, multiple stakeholders, and many phases of the building’s life, represent an interesting study for the application of ideas from model-driven engineering, being large, complex, an...

The purpose of this paper is to examine evolutionary processes of sectoral systems of innovation in catch-up situation. The main findings are: market catch-up of China’s self-owned brand cars expanded from low to high end market segment. Changes of the five building blocks of innovation system of China’s car industry drove the market catch-up since 1980’s. The five building blocks are: market d...

Background and purpose: In a recent century, the amount of construction waste has increased significantly. Although the building industry has a considerable role in the development of a society, it is regarded as an environmentally destructive. Source reduction is the highest goal in the waste management hierarchy and is in priority. It also has economic benefits by reducing costs associated wi...

Automated Valuation Models (AVMs) have been used by mortgage industry participants for a number of years with a limited degree of success. A lack of comprehensive data and thus restricted reliability has prevented AVMs from being fully adopted by governments, lenders, brokers, and the like. This paper presents a framework for building an intelligent property valuation model that overcomes these...

The aim of this paper is to utilize Bayesian Networks scenario-building method to create a framework for analyzing the future of Iran’s energy industry. This framework helps to develop more resilient conservation policies when faced with uncontrollable, irreducible uncertainty by the ability to prediction and diagnose scenarios. Also this paper aims to quantify the scenarios as well as explaini...

Transformation towards sustainable development Changing consumption patterns Finance, capital and performance indicators Technological breakthroughs We hope to solicit a discussion on the future of the greening of industry research agenda. This article is based on a report The Greening of Industry for a Sustainable Future: Building an International Research Agenda (1997). # 1997 by John Wiley &...

QuEST Forum pursues the goal of global telecommunications quality and industry-wide performance excellence through its TL 9000 standard. Building on ISO 9001, TL 9000 provides the telecommunications industry with a consistent set of quality expectations that parallel rapid technology changes and customer expectations resulting in a unique and robust quality management system that drives continu...

Building Envelopes P. Fazio, H. S. He, A. Hammad, M. Horvat Abstract Evaluating the overall performance of buildings has emerged as a trend in building engineering in recent years. Several programs that evaluate building performance have been developed or are being developed in different regions of the world. The Building Envelope Performance Assessment Tool (BEPAT) was initiated at Concordia U...

The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) has established a standard for defining interchangeable data formats among various computer models in Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) domains. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to make their data models compliant to the IFC standard through either adopting new data structures or creating bridges that can convert IFC data to be used by...