Proceedings of the CIB W078-W102 Conference: Computers, knowledge, building

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Posted on: 5 April 2012
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This 994-page report contains the proceedings from a conference held in Sophia Antiplois in France from 26-28 October 2011. It includes proceedings from the 28th International Workshop of CIB W78 Computer integrated construction, jointly organised with the 7th CIB W102 Information and knowledge management in building.

This conference was dedicated to the latest broad achievements in research, development, standardisation and industrial implementation of advanced Computing, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Knowledge Management (KM) in the construction sector and the built environment. The key role of ICT and KM in the facilitation of information and knowledge delivery in collaborative projects and distributed teams is nowadays widely acknowledged, and the construction sector has now is becoming active in the adoption of models, standards and ICT solutions, with the ambition to better manage and assimilate an increasing amount of information and embedded services, throughout the building lifecycle. The objective is also to enhance the potential for productivity and reduce overall life-cycle product costs, and to further support services designed to facilitate management of life cycle performance and to meet changing end user needs, with a clear customer orientation.

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