Enhancing building product libraries to enable the dynamic definition of design element specifications

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 373-388

  Underwood, Jason ^a   Alshawi, Mustafa A ^b   Aouad, Ghassan ^c   Child, Terry ^c   Faraj, Ihsan Z ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c AremisSoft Corp   (United Kingdom)

^d BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design element specifications; IFC; Integrated distributed construction project database; STEP Part 21 physical file; Three tier client server architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992974179     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb021160     Document Type: Review

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