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Sergey Kalinichuk
In the construction industry there is a necessity for innovative methods to improve the construction efficiency that proves to be true happening now and for soon expected changes. The given paper studies information and communication technologies concerning their usage within the construction industry with purposes to increase construction efficiency and solve the special challenges such as sustainable design and construction.
Source: Adapted from Proverbs, Holt, and Cheok, Summary of J.Egan, Report, Rethinking Construction, 2002.
of the construction delivery processes. ICT include computer hardware, software, and communications devices which give access and allow communicating easily at local and international level. [2] An nD model has been defined as an extension of the building information model, which incorporates multi-aspects of design information required at each stage of the lifecycle of a building facility. [3] ICT creates necessary conditions for the complete approach to project delivery. The key advantage to professionals is the possibility to consider and produce project changes at any time. It ensures functioning over determination of design, construction and maintenance dimensions and helps to consolidate separated knowledge advancements made within time, cost, accessibility, crime, sustainability, acoustics, thermal and visual comfort, build ability and maintainability into a holistic decision-making tool. ICTs can play an important role in accelerating and improving of various processes that are unambiguously necessary for ecological sustainability. Tab. 2: ICT supported technologies in construction
Needs Item Project Company Country World Man with man Man with application Interaction facilities Man with machine Application with machine Just-in-time Time saving Just-in-case ICT Supported Technology Document management, product and process models Data warehouses National construction information systems Global ICT networks E-mail, video conferences nD Visualization, virtual reality, graphical user-interfaces Indirect contact using computers Robotics, Remote sensors Database look-up, internet search Subscriptions to customized content, distance learning
Source: Turk, M., Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, Banff, AB, October 1997.
ICT creates the big integration into construction industry. The big advantage can be received with development of corresponding ICT solutions. Building Information Modeling (BIM) or Green Design can be one of the examples. Being rather new, already at the given stage of development BIM technologies provide savings in time, cost, and resources. Also, ICT should satisfy in equal, as much as possible admissible level of all subdivisions of every construction
stakeholder, whenever saving the existing productions, and also methods and management structure.
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Share of whole number companies (%) 5157 96,6 64,8 30,3 90,9 24,6 62,4 12,5 18,4 20,3
Source: ICT v podnicch R - vsledky za leden 2012, Czech Statistical Office, 2013.
Conclusion
Most modern construction projects takes place over all-round, unified and capable to an exchange data model. It allows carrying out complex analyses at early stages of virtual design and construction. Further the model will include business intelligence, lean construction principles, green policies and whole lifecycle costing. Information and Communication Technologies in this case becomes the base for all innovative methods of design and construction and needed as much attention possible. It gains currency for Czech construction companies which generally are being short of investments to ICT.
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Phone: (+420) 776 767 392 E-mail: sergey.kalinichuk@fsv.cvut.cz Department of Economics and Management in Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Thkurova 7, 166 29 Praha 6, Czech Republic