Electronic business in the Building-Construction (BC) industry: Preparing for the new Internet

conference paper
This paper presents the objectives and initial results of the European 5th Framework eConstruct project (IST-10303). The aim of eConstruct is to develop, implement, apply and disseminate an XML vocabulary (bcXML) for the European Building-Construction (BC) industry. This new Communication Technology (CT) will provide the European Building-Construction industry with a meaningful but low cost communication infrastructure that.
• Supports electronic business-to-business (B2B) between Clients, Architects and Engineers, Suppliers (of products, services and resources), Contractors and Sub-contractors,
• Is integrated with E-Commerce and DesignlEngineering/PDT applications, and
• Supports virtual construction enterprises over the borders of the individual European member states taking account of national languages, classification and coding systems
TNO Identifier
329651
Source title
CIT, Reykjavik, Iceland, 28-30 June
Pages
1-9
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