The European Commission is
devoting considerable financial resources to supporting research
into the development of eBusiness in the construction industry.
This is evident from the attention paid to the topic during the
recent eBusiness and eWork conference (e-2001), which was held
in Venice, October 17-19.
The research and development
work is being undertaken as part of the European Commission's
IST Programme, within the domain Key Action II, New Methods of
Work and Electronic Commerce.
During the conference a wide
range of eBusiness topics focused on the construction industry
were discussed. Knowledge management for inter-organisational
activities, dynamic virtual enterprises and smart organisations,
new workplace and teamwork concepts, novel solutions and practices
for eCommerce and eBusiness, legal and policy issues, etc., were
just some of the results and issues presented to the conference
audience.
The eBusiness and eWork event
is the conference for RTD projects in Key Action II of the IST
Programme, who are also the primary sponsors of the eBusiness
and eWork conference series.
Ends
Notes to Editors
The following are a selection
of papers relevant to the construction industry that were presented
at the e-2001 conference. These papers can be found in the published
proceedings (see news release dated 29
October 2001).
- ICT research and development
for the construction industry
Alain Zarli, CSTB, France
OSMOS: Open specification and framework for the construction
dynamic virtual organisations
Yacine Rezgui, University of Salford, United Kingdom
ICT support for Distributed Engineering in Construction: the
GLOBEMEN project
Sami Kazi, VTT Automation, Finland
eBusiness in the Building-Construction industry: the eConstruct
project
Reinout Van Rees, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Towards the next generation of civil engineering collaboration
platforms: the ISTforCE project
Ziga Turk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
DIVERCITY: A VR application for the Construction Industry
Souheil Soubra, CSTB, France
Information Services to Enable European Construction Industry:
The I-SEEC Project
Raimar Scherer, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
Knowledge Management in the Construction Industry: the e-COGNOS
Approach
- Marc Bourdeau, CSTB, France
Electronic Contracting in the construction industry
Michael Merz, Ponton Software Technology, Germany
Conceptual Framework for Virtual Enterprise in Construction
Juha Hyvarinen, VTT Building and Transport, Finland
Communicating Knowledge in the Joint Sales Network of Construction
Industry Suppliers
Friedemann Reim, Informationsmanagement, Germany
Internet Procurement for the Construction and Engineering Industry
Henriqueta Novoa, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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