learning rapidly and competently has become a pre-eminent strategy for improving organizational performance in the new knowledge era. improving dynamic learning capability is an exclusive strategy for corporate success in construction industry. thus engineering design firms should implement ol to accomplish a state of readiness for change and develop a competence to respond and identify future ...

Knowledge management (KM) has been studied extensively in recent years. Some consider knowledge to be the most strategically important resource for any company, but the fragmented, project-based and task-oriented nature of construction work makes it more difficult to implement KM in this sector. This paper presents a survey of perceptions of KM implementation in the Spanish construction sector ...

Construction companies have always relied on their knowledge assets to provide services to clients. In recent years the terminology ‘knowledge management’ has been introduced. Knowledge management (KM) seeks to formalize the manner in which companies exploit their knowledge assets by harnessing organizational knowledge, promoting greater collaboration between groups with similar interests, capt...

Andrew T. Rose, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, 225 Engineering and Science Building, Johnstown, PA 15904, [email protected] Abstract – Remaining “current” in one’s field is a requirement for promotion and tenure in engineering and engineering technology faculty positions. Technology and engineering, however, are changing at an ever-increasing pace. In the next century, engineering educa...

1Korea Bridge Design and Engineering Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea 2Structure Department, DONG IL Engineering Consultants Co. Ltd., Seoul 138-200, Korea 3Department of Civil Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea 4Structural Design Department, Korea Engineering Consultants Corp., Seoul 143-715, Korea 5School of Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering, S...

This paper gives a brief overview of the tools we have developed to support conceptual design in civil engineering. Based on the UPGRADE framework, two applications, one for the knowledge engineer and another for architects allow to store domain specific knowledge and to use this knowledge during conceptual design. Consistency analyses check the design against the defined knowledge and inform t...