Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to:
* Review the construction process and the information needed to carry it out;
* Understand the role of communication in successful project delivery;
* Introduce the students to a range of information and communication technology [ICT] applications;
* Provide an opportunity to reflect and apply leading-edge ICT solutions to industry based problems.
Learning Outcomes: After taking this unit students should be able to:
* Appreciate the importance of information to the success of construction projects;
* Understand the nature of information flow during construction projects;
* Be aware of the existing common problems related to communication and information management in construction;
* Identify the specific relevance of these problems in their workplace;
* Have knowledge of potential benefits offered by various ICT based communication and information management applications;
* Propose an appropriate system that helps to overcome the existing communication and information management problems in their workplace.
Skills: Intellectual skills
* To problem solve through an evolving case study - taught and assessed
Professional/Practical skills
* To provide students with the ability to design their own communication and information management system - taught and assessed
Transferable/key skills
* To communicate ideas verbally and in writing - facilitated and assessed
* To synthesis and critically review taught materials - facilitated and assessed.
Content: The unit is divided into the following sections:
Introduction - Characteristics of construction, importance of information, role of communication, existing CIM problems, drivers for improvement
Information production and communication - project information, information types, project communication, coordinated project information
Information Management systems - fundamentals, types of IMS, ICT developments
Collaboration and communication tools - collaboration technologies, development of collaboration tools, examples of collaboration tools
Integration and BIM - need for integration, integration strategies, BIM, examples of BIM.
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