Integrated IFC based Collaborative Building Design
using Internet Technology

D. Roshani and W. Tizani

School of Civil Engineering,

The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Abstract

The issue of communication between the parties involved in a construction project has been the subject of active research for many years. The construction industry has a long tradition of collaborative working between the members of the construction team. At the design stage, this has traditionally been based on physical meetings. This paper considers the shortcomings of the current state of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) design process and gives an overview of the design, implementation and evaluation of a COllaborative Design Environment (CODE) system. The system’s facilities allowed for active human-centred collaboration, and confirmed that the Internet is a feasible and accessible technology for hosting multidisciplinary and distributed collaborative design work.

Keywords: Collaboration, Integrated, AEC, Building Design, Product Model, Internet, IFC

Citation to this article;

D. Roshani and W. Tizani, (2005), Integrated IFC based Collaborative Building Design using Internet Technology, CCP: 81, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING, Edited by: B.H.V. Topping, Paper 58, doi:10.4203/ccp.81.58