A conceptual approach to track design changes within a multi-disciplinary building information modeling environment

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-152

  Pilehchian, Behzad ^a   Staub French, Sheryl ^a,c   Nepal, Madhav Prasad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c SNC LAVALIN INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building; Change management; Dependency matrix; Design management; Level of development; Model evolution; Ontology; Traceability

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DESIGN; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; LIFE CYCLE; OFFICE BUILDINGS; ONTOLOGY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; DEPENDENCY MATRIX; DESIGN MANAGEMENT; LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT; MODEL EVOLUTION; TRACEABILITY;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DESIGN; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TRACKING;

EID: 84922893172     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2014-0078     Document Type: Article

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