TY - JOUR
T1 - Life-Cycle Management of Construction Projects Based on Virtual Prototyping Technology
AU - Guo, H. L.
AU - Li, Heng
AU - Skitmore, Martin
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Life-cycle management (LCM) has been employed in the management of construction projects for many years in order to reduce whole life cost, time, risk and improve the service to owners. However, owing to lack of an effective information sharing platform, the current LCM of construction projects is not effectively used in the construction industry. Based upon the analysis of the information flow of LCM, a virtual prototyping (VP)-based communication and collaboration information platform is proposed. Following this, the platform is customized using DASSAULT software. The whole process of implementing the VP-based LCM of projects is analyzed via the application to a real-life construction project. The advantages of implementing a VP-based LCM are also discussed and, from a simple case study, it is demonstrated that the VP-based communication and collaboration information platform is an effective tool to support the LCM of construction projects.
AB - Life-cycle management (LCM) has been employed in the management of construction projects for many years in order to reduce whole life cost, time, risk and improve the service to owners. However, owing to lack of an effective information sharing platform, the current LCM of construction projects is not effectively used in the construction industry. Based upon the analysis of the information flow of LCM, a virtual prototyping (VP)-based communication and collaboration information platform is proposed. Following this, the platform is customized using DASSAULT software. The whole process of implementing the VP-based LCM of projects is analyzed via the application to a real-life construction project. The advantages of implementing a VP-based LCM are also discussed and, from a simple case study, it is demonstrated that the VP-based communication and collaboration information platform is an effective tool to support the LCM of construction projects.
KW - Construction projects
KW - Information sharing
KW - Life cycle management
KW - Virtual prototyping
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/73449091542
U2 - 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2010)26:1(41)
DO - 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2010)26:1(41)
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:73449091542
SN - 0742-597X
VL - 26
SP - 41
EP - 47
JO - Journal of Management in Engineering
JF - Journal of Management in Engineering
IS - 1
ER -