IT IN COLLABORATIVE BUILDING DESIGN (IT-CODE)

Location and time independent interaction and collaboration among the multidisciplinary competencies of building industry at early design stage highly influence the quality of final building products. A cross -platform IT supported virtual workspace is therefore necessary. This semantic web based distributed virtual workspace will be built on meta -structured languages, XML and RDF, and integrated with ontologies to serve as a dynamic knowledge pool for decision- making support. Virtual building with time tracking capability to formulate the redundant building's descriptions throughout its simulated lifecycle to support decision-making is a resolution to replace physical prototype. A temporal database will be formulated to populate all of the necessary properties of a virtual building for archiving, retrieving, processing and producing building artifacts/documents fast and efficiently. A demonstrator at low -medium cost will be developed for public access in a distributed environment to enable consistent evaluation from the participated end users.

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