Computer-Integrated Management Systems for Medium-Sized Contractors
Date
1995
Authors
Froese, Thomas M.
Russell, Alan
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Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Abstract
This paper examines integrated computer systems for the construction industry—in
particular, for “medium-sized” contractors who carry out much of the construction work
performed in this country. The main focus of the paper is to evaluate the practical barriers,
challenges, and opportunities facing the design and development of these integrated systems.
The paper addresses the practical organizational and computing context in which such
systems must be used, identifies the major project views or perspectives adopted by both
project participants and software applications, describes the major areas of potential benefit
offered by integrated systems, and outlines three major design and development areas that
must be addressed for future systems. In this last section, the paper briefly introduces a
number of projects carried out by the authors that address some of these design challenges
and presents a road map for an ongoing research program for computer-integrated
management tools for the construction industry.
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Froese, T. & Russell, A. (1995). Computer-Integrated Management Systems for Medium-Sized Contractors. Published in the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineers, Ottawa, ON. https://csce.ca/en/publications/pastconferences/