Capability of construction companies to manage the digital interoperability between stakeholders and technicians is fundamental for the success of a work, both for new constructions and renovations. The research outlines a methodological and operational protocol for general contractors and the related supply chains and subcontractors. The Programme contains indications for the development of BIM-based workflows that implement the main activities in building construction, operations and maintenance: off-site and on-site time schedules, site planning and building ergotechnics, accounting, project variances, non-compliance issues, test and commissioning, maintenance planning.
The architectural project, since its conceiving, constitutes a great syntheses effort,where different knowledge fields are called to simultaneously influence the design. Information gathering represents therefore a crucial phase of thewhole design process.The competences that constitute the knowledge corpus of Architectural design are a mix of framed experiences, values, technical information and expert insights. Moreover they originate daily and are applied, during designing, teaching and learning. Rarely this mix of experiences is used as it would be necessary in order to exploit its full potential in terms of quality of the design. One of the most critical barriers to the exploitation of these potentialities is the limits hindering access to the right knowledge at the right time. The practice of communities - that generate the "daily knowledge" - are, in the best case, recorded and stored in isolated e-learning systems. Consequently accessing the right information at the right time during a design session, classroom teaching, personal learning, is difficult, even in the today digital era. The limits to accessing architecture knowledge are much more related to representational and cultural differences than to pure physical access, nowadays supported by the Internet
This paper reports on current research in the field of architectural design and knowledge-based systems, through the conception and implementation of two software tools operating as a part of an integrated hypermedia environment denominated PatriArch. Main concern of this set of tools operating in PatriArch is the support of design since the very beginning, in that phase of not yet correctly explored or interpretated constraints and of scarcely specified goals, in which an initial solution model -provisionally composed of fragments of supposed fittingideas -for the design theme has to take place. The creative activity of the designer is assumed as an 'intentional planning activity' that represents the acquired level of knowledge of the network of connections defining the nature, function, shape in the space etc. of the increasingly integrated solution-model: the final design will be an evolution of this -and other competitive and concurrent -models. PatriArch is ment to be the environment containing and allowing the representation of this evolution through its ability of linking the fragments of designers' knowledge, supported by an integrated relational data base: Sysinfo. These works were conceived inside an educational software development program for architecture students.
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