Extended production integration for construction: A loosely coupled project model for building construction

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-68

  Lu, Huanqing ^a   Issa, Raja R A ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Contracts; Information technology (IT); Integrated systems; Models; Project management

Indexed keywords

CORBA; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONTRACTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 16644366928     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2005)19:1(58)     Document Type: Article

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