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- Automation Strategies in Architectural and Engineering Offices
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- The Traditional Method of Exchanging Project Information
- Co-ordination is very limited
- Irreversible system: Changes
made by departments are not conveyed to Architect
- No documentation to changes
- Depends on conventional communication methods: verbal (tel. calls),
memos.
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- The objective of this lecture:
- To Discuse the Automation Strategies in Consulting offices
- Explore the Factors That Affects the Efficient Utilization of IT in
these offices
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- The Traditional Method of Exchanging Project Information
- Incomplete drawings
- Late drawings
- Insufficient details
- Dimensional mistakes
- Conflict between services
- Conflict between drawings
- Conflict between documents
- No co-ordination of design
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- The factors that contribute to the problem of inadequate information
seem to be centered on communication and co-ordination issues between
the various parties in the process
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- IT Could be effectively employed to improve the production activities
by:
- Improve communication: E-mail, Network, etc.
- Promote integration and co-ordination: use of X.Ref.
- Improve access to info: CD libraries, Internet.
- Improve the production efficiently: use of Ads-on.
- Enhance data management by providing overlay system
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- A filed study was carried out in 1997 in a design division of one of the
largest company in the Kingdom.
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- To document and evaluate the method of exchanging and coordinating
project information
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- Although the office has acquired good computing resources, participants
were not utilizing the full capabilities of the system
- Phone calls was ranked the highest among method of exchanging
information
- 82% reported they have not using computers to exchange info.
- Under utilizing the coordination facilities available in the system
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- The Shortcoming of the Office Coordination Method
- Firstly, the method is irreversible, so that, architects can not get
enough feedback from the other participants in the office.
- The project team is still dependent on the traditional communication
method in communicating design changes.
- Architectural information prepared by the use of computers cannot be
utilized efficiently and dynamically by the rest of the team.
- When major changes occur, base-plans are copied on computer diskettes
and redistributed to the rest of the team. Since this is a costly and time
consuming process, minor changes are propagated in the traditional way
(verbally or by sending memos and sketches) which may be ignored.
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- Slow in adapting CAD in the design & production process
- Last two Decades witnessed
- Despite the huge investment in IT,
CAD productivity remains disappointing
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- Although Most ARC office have good computing resources , the level of
automation was found law, compared to the potential capability
available in the used systems.
- Office use a new tool with and old method
- The practice is applying IT at the first stage of innovation
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