Digital communication in multi-disciplinary teams: Preparing students for a future building project context (original) (raw)

The construction industry is currently in a quite important phase of change and evolution towards better productivity and efficiency. The way project partners collaborate is being redefined. This is to a large extent due to an ever--increasing building project complexity. Projects need to be delivered faster, at the lowest possible cost and adhering to a rising set of performance criteria, such as energy consumption, structural stability, cost, accessibility, safety and many others. To be able to answer these demands, the different stakeholders in construction projects will work together in Building Teams from the very first stages of the project, at a moment where many design decisions still need to be made and thus can positively influence the project outcome. New evolutions such as "Integrated Project Delivery" (IPD) and the "Building Information Modeling" (BIM) methodology are being applied to manage these new processes, in addition to a wide variety of digital communication techniques, such as cloud computing, model servers and online audio-and videoconferencing technologies.

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