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Advances in Construction ICT and E-Business POLITECNICO DI TORINO Repository ISTITUZIONALE Towards the establishment of a District Information Modeling Original Towards the establishment of a District Information Modeling / Torabi Moghadam, Sara; Lombardi, Patrizia; Toniolo, Jacopo. - STAMPA. - (2017), pp. 245-262. [10.4324/9781315690698] Availability: This version is available at: 11583/2645483 since: 2020-07-09T16:03:19Z Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc. Published DOI:10.4324/9781315690698 Terms of use: openAccess This article is made available under terms and conditions as specified in the corresponding bibliographic description in the repository Publisher copyright (Article begins on next page) 05 October 2021 Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business This internationally conducted study of the latest construction industry practices addresses a broad range of Information and Communication Technology applications. Drawing on research conducted in the US and UK, this book presents the state of the art of various e-business processes, and examines BIM, virtual environments and mobile technologies. Innovation is a theme that runs throughout this book, so in addition to the direct impact of these new technical achievements, it also considers the management styles that helped them to emerge. Examples from industry are illustrated with case studies and presented alongside research from some of the best known academics in this field. This book is essential reading for all advanced students and researchers interested in how ICT is changing construction management and the con- struction industry. Srinath Perera is Professor and Chair of Built Environment and Construc- tion Management at the School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. Bingunath Ingirige is Professor of Project Management and Resilience at the Global Disaster Resilience Centre (GDRC), School of Art Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK. Kirti Ruikar is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Engineering at the School of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Esther Obonyo is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design and Archi- tectural Engineering at Penn State University, USA. This page intentionally left blank Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business Edited by Srinath Perera, Bingunath Ingirige, Kirti Ruikar and Esther Obonyo First published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 selection and editorial matter, Srinath Perera, Bingunath Ingirige, Kirti Ruikar and Esther Obonyo; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Srinath Perera, Bingunath Ingirige, Kirti Ruikar and Esther Obonyo to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been applied for ISBN: 978-1-138-91458-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-69069-8 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by codeMantra Contents List of figures and tables vii List of contributors xii 1 Introduction 1 Srinath Perera, Kirti Ruikar, Bingunath Ingirige, anD Esther Obonyo 2 Exploiting e-commerce in construction 12 Pathmeswaran RAJU AND Gerald Feldman 3 Advances in electronic procurement for the construction industry 33 Robert Eadie AND SRINATH Perera 4 Drivers for electronic procurement and building information modelling in the construction industry 65 Robert Eadie AND SRINATH Perera 5 Building information modelling and management 87 DAVid GREENWOOD 6 BIM in practise – industry case studies 106 Tristan Gerrish, Kirti Ruikar, Malcolm CooK, MarK JOHNSON, AND MarK Phillip 7 Manchester Central Library and Town Hall Extension Project: the BIM journey so far of a public sector client 131 Jason Underwood, JOANNA Chomeniuk, LiaM Brady, anD DAVid Woodcock 8 Project extranets and developments in project collaboration 153 Eric Lou AND AnaS Bataw vi Contents 9 Transforming policy documents into intelligent three-dimensional collaboration tools 182 Alan Redmond AND Mustafa Alshawi 10 Impact of collaboration tools and shaping the future of data exchange – A model for BIM communication waste 213 George Charalambous, Peter Demian, SteVen Yeomans anD TonY Thorpe 11 Towards the establishment of a district information modelling 245 SARA MOGHADAM, PatriZia Lombardi, AND JACOPO Toniolo 12 Capability maturity modelling of construction e-business processes 263 Srinath Perera AND Anushi Rodrigo 13 e-Business infrastructure and strategic frameworks 296 YongJie CheN, Kirti Ruikar AND Patricia Carrillo 14 Innovation in e-business: issues related to adoption for micro and SME organisations 316 ERIC ADZROE AND Bingunath Ingirige 15 Application of social media in the construction industry 340 Paul Wilkinson 16 Social media in construction: an exploratory case study 376 Srinath Perera, MICHELE VICTORIA AND Samuel Brand 17 Mobile computing applications within construction 404 Zeeshan AZIZ, AIZUL HARUN AND NaiF Alaboud 18 Envisioning buildings: advances in construction visualisations 423 EMINE THOMPSON 19 The multi-agent paradigm in construction e-business and its use in the next generation of data-driven decision-making tools 450 Esther Obonyo AND Chimay Anumba 20 Conclusions – Summary, the status quo and future trends 462 Bingunath Ingirige, SRINATH Perera, Kirti Ruikar anD Esther Obonyo Index 471 Figures and tables Figures 3.1 Methods of electronic transactions 34 3.2 Stages of e-tendering 36 3.3 Restricted procedure process and timelines 37 3.4 Simplistic e-tendering document supply and submission 44 3.5 E-awarding electronic system 45 3.6 European procedures incorporating auctions 49 6.1 The hype cycle (Gartner, 2014) and adoption lifecycle (Rogers, 2003) showing coincidental adoption phases 108 6.2 Ongoing uptake and awareness of BIM in UK AEC industry (NBS, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) 108 6.3 Roles and design involvement undertaken by the organisation referenced here 109 6.4 (a–c) Increasing levels of detail in object modelling 111 6.5 BIM building energy performance data attribution framework 118 7.1 Manchester City Council short-term BIM4FM vision 136 7.2 Manchester City Council long-term BIM4FM vision 137 7.3 B/555 BIM implementation maturity model 139 7.4 MCC initial BIM maturity analysis of the Central Library project 141 7.5 MCC comparative BIM maturity analysis of the Central Library project (design and construction) 143 7.6 MCC comparative BIM maturity analysis of the Central Library project (FM) 144 9.1 Conceptual map of relationships 191 9.2 (a) The origin of business rules and (b) Kind of term 194 9.3 ASHRAE data base tier – architectural design 196 9.4 Example of a BIM system and process for linking material objects with health and ASHRAE documents 199 9.5 Exchanging information via BIM XML and REST 201 9.6 BIM XML + IFC product model 202 9.7 iFM and facility life-cycle data 206 10.1 Outline of requirements engineering approach followed 227 viii Figures and tables 10.2 AEC-FM process flows and BIM process flows 230 10.3 The BIM process transmission: the focal unit of analysis of WIMBIM 230 10.4 BIM process transmissions: main categories and relation to BIM process flows 231 10.5 BIM process transmission waste: the 6 different types (A–E) 232 10.6 An example of a BIM process transmission with transmission waste 233 10.7 BIM data containers, transmission media and coordination tools 234 10.8 BIM transmission waste as a result of BIM data containers, transmission media and coordination tools 235 10.9 Dimensions and waste: the two dimensions of waste are the flow type dimension and the data subset dimension 235 10.10 Interaction between BIM data container, transmission medium and transmission coordination tool 236 10.11 BIM efficiency states 237 10.12 BIM transmission/interaction representations 237 10.13 BIM transmission interaction representation lenses: scale and complexity 238 11.1 Conceptual scheme of DIM, integration of BIMs and network monitoring system 252 11.2 Representation of the DIMMER’ concept 253 12.1 Structure of SW-CMM 267 12.2 Five maturity levels of SW-CMM 268 12.3 Key process areas associated with each maturity level of SW-CMM 269 12.4 Main components of CMMI 270 12.5 SPICE maturity levels 272 12.6 Typical table summarising average scores in each category with traffic light indicators of VERDICT 273 12.7 The structure of the IS/IT readiness model 274 12.8 Maturity levels and their process areas of EB-CMM 276 12.9 Tabular BIM capability maturity model 277 12.10 Interactive BIM capability maturity model 278 12.11 BIM maturity ramp 279 12.12 Components of the BIM maturity matrix 280 12.13 Structure of the CeB-CMM 282 13.1 Reviewed approaches and their relationships
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