Designers share their specialized knowledge by developing design cases, which we define as representations of design efforts and outcomes disseminated to peers. In the field of instructional design this practice is not well established. In addition, many fields in which design is practiced are examining how knowledge is built by designers, and considering the methods of research most applicable...

This paper describes a demonstration system for visualisation of processes found in construction schedules of large-scale building projects. It was driven by plans to develop a new airport terminal building. The building model was virtualised and users were able to “step through” the various stages of its virtual construction. The system operates within a large screen VR theatre and allows seve...

This paper reports the findings of a case study of a collaborative network formed to develop and promote a healthcare information portal. We utilize prior research on the role of resources and capabilities in achieving competitive advantage to develop a conceptual framework of the resources and capabilities needed to sustain collaborative networks. We then apply this framework in analyzing the ...

On average, by the time when 1% of the project costs are spent in the design phase, roughly 70% of the life-cycle cost of the building has been committed. Therefore, it is essential to integrate the multidisciplinary knowledge over the life-cycle of the building into design. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the most important supporting factors for a successful integrated design. ...

Trust is important for development but can be hard to build. In this paper, we report on experiments designed to understand the determinants of trust in villages in eastern Uganda, and in particular whether trust can be ‘built’ by offering insurance to people as a protection against the possibility that the trust they offer will not be reciprocated. We find, firstly, that the effects of income ...

The availability of innumerable intelligent building (IB) products, and the current dearth of inclusive building component selection methods suggest that decision makers might be confronted with the quandary of forming a particular combination of components to suit the needs of a specific IB project. Despite this problem, few empirical studies have so far been undertaken to analyse the selectio...

Purpose As every construction project is quite different according to the type of construction, 3D-representations on design, estimation, construction, and management also need to be different. While the 3D-approach has been widely applied to building projects, it has rarely been tested on large construction projects such as tunnels, mass transit systems, dams, highways, etc. Meanwhile, charact...

In spite of the widely recognized benefits of applying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to design enterprise-scale software systems, its actual application practice is not always a success. One major reason is the lack of a systematic engineering process and tool supported by reusable architectural artifacts. Toward this ultimate goal, this paper proposes a new method of architectural buildi...

Building repositories for e-learning is an iterative process and course content and course structure are always changing. We realized the necessity to separate content from structure of a given course during the conception of our first e-learning repository, which we called KBS-Hyperbook, several years ago at our institute. This system has been built around a conceptual model for structure and ...