Effectiveness of ICT for Construction information exchange among multidisciplinary project teams

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 365-376

  Lam, Patrick T I ^a   Wong, Franky W H ^c   Tse, Kenny T C ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Construction management; Information management; Internet; Organization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOUBLE HANDLING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS; ONLINE COLLABORATION TOOLS; PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SYSTEM CAPACITY; TECHNICAL SUPPORT; WEB-BASED ENVIRONMENT; WIDE SPECTRUM;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; EXTRANETS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953578917     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000038     Document Type: Article

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