The practicalities of transferring data between project collaboration systems used by the construction industry

Automation in Construction

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 824-830

  Moses, S ^a   El Hamalawi, A ^a   Hassan, T M ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture engineering and construction; Data exchange standards; Project collaboration; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; XML;

ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING; DATA EXCHANGE STANDARDS; PROJECT COLLABORATION;

DATA TRANSFER;

EID: 44149089024     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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