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Subject: Knowledge management in Civil Engineering
Category: Science > Technology
Asked by: ulysses72-ga
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Posted: 13 Jan 2003 03:36 PST
Expires: 12 Feb 2003 03:36 PST
Question ID: 141972
Knowledge Management in Construction and Civil Engineering Industry
especially in medium-large building projects (Europe and States).
Looking for current literature, academic papers, PhD Thesis, ongoing
academic and research projects.
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Subject: Re: Knowledge management in Civil Engineering
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 13 Jan 2003 07:23 PST
 
Dear ulysses72, 

I have found several sources for you. If you are intending to persue a
serious research project, I'd advice you also to email the professors
mentioned here, for further information.


Books
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Singh, Amarjit (ed) 2001.: Creative systems in structural and
construction engineering - Proceedings of the first international
structural and construction conference, Honolulu, Hawaii 24-27 January
2001 (contains discussion of KM alongside other topics)

M. von Zedtwitz, G. Haour, T. Khalil, L. Lefebvre (Eds.) (2003,
Forthcoming): Management of Technology: Growth through Business,
Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Pergamon Press: Oxford, forthcoming.


Academic Articles, Conference Presentations, Working Papers and Other
Publications
==============================================

Anumba, C. J. (1996). Increasing the uptake of knowledge based systems
by construction industry practitioners, Proceedings of The 3rd
Workshop of the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications
of Artificial Intelligence (EG-SEA-AI) held at Ross Priory, University
of Strathclyde, UK, August 12-13, 1996 .

Alderman, Niel 2001. "Innovation in low volume capital project
networks: on the temporality of clustering" Paper prepared for the
Future of Innovation Studies Conference Eindhoven 21-23 September 2001
http://www.tm.tue.nl/ecis/papers/iii_2_3.pdf

Alderman, N, McLoughlin, I P, Ivory, C J, Thwaites, A and Vaughan, R.
2000. Trains, drains and cranes: customer requirements and knowledge
management in long term engineering projects proceedings of the
British Academy of Management Conference (BAM 2000) 13-15 September OR
see books.

Alderman, N., Ivory CJ, VAUGHAN, R, Thwaites A., and McLoughlin IP
2001 "Knowledge management for projects integration: case studies of
capital investment programmes" Paper prepared for the Managing
Knowledge: Conversations and Critiques Conference, University of 
Leicester, 10-11 April 2001 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/labs/Leicester.doc

Alderman, N., Ivory, C.J., McLoughlin, I.P., Thwaites, A.T. and
Vaughan, R. (2002) What is complex about complex projects and can they
be managed? Paper presented at the EURAM Conference 2002 on Innovative
Research in Management, Stockholm, 9-11 May.

Andersen H.F: Apelgren S. Christensen S, Gottlieb S. Sřrensen J.
2000.: Knowledge Management. Project report from Production concept in
Construction. Department of Building & Energy. DTU.

Baark, Eric (---) "New Knowledge Management Patterns in Consulting
Engineering" http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/saw44/Baark.pdf

Baark, Erik (1999) `Engineering Consultancy: An Assessment of
IT-enabled International Delivery of Services', Technology Analysis &
Strategic ManagementVol. 11, No. 1, 1999, p. 55-74

M. Bourdeau, F. Giraud-Carrier, Y. Rezgui, A. Zarli "Knowledge
Management in the Construction Industry: the e-COGNOS approach",
e.2001 - eBusiness and eWork 2001, Venice, Italy, 17-19 October 2001.
http://www.e-cognos.org/Downloads/Publications/e2001.PDF

CII and NSF (1997).  How do we use research to improve the engineering
and construction industry. Final Report, Workshop Co-sponsored by the
Construction Industry Institute and the National Science Foundation,
May 13-14, Austin, TX
Corley J. "New Management Forms for Construction Projects"
http://www.wbmt.tudelft.nl/pto/research/conferences/Proceedings/IEMC2002/papers/153.pdf

Cushman, Mike L. Alberto Franco and Jonathan Rosenhead 2001. "Learning
from Partners in the Construction Industry: A Feedback Approach to
Cross-Organizational Learning" Paper presented to the 8th
International Conference in Multi-Organizational Partnerships and
Co-operative Strategy, Bristol, July 12-14 2001.
http://is.lse.ac.uk/wp/pdf/WP97.PDF

Egbu C & Sturges J.(2001): Knowledge Management in Small and Medium
Enterprises in the Construction industry: Challenges and
Opportunities. Paper presented at Managing Knowledge ­Conversations
and Critiques. University of Leicester.UK

Ivory C. J., Adlerman, N., Twaithes, A., McLoughlin I. P.  and R.
Vaughan 2002.  "Knowledge Management for New Technology Procurement:
The Case of a Sludge Treatment Centre" 
http://www.wbmt.tudelft.nl/pto/research/conferences/Proceedings/IEMC2002/papers/300.pdf

Koch, Christian 2001a "Knowledge Management in Engineering companies
in Construction". Proceedings The Tenth International Conference on
Management of Technology. IAMOT 2001, Lausanne Schweiz

--------------  2001b "Can Bricolage be squared? Integrating
Information Systems and Soft Management Tools in Engineering Knowledge
Production" paper presented at
http://www.wbmt.tudelft.nl/pto/research/conferences/Proceedings/Sci2001/Paperspdf/P001335.PDF

---------------  2002. "The Emergence of Second Generation Knowledge
Management in Engineering Consulting" Paper presented at International
Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction CIB
w78 conference 2002 Aarhus School of Architecture, 12 ­ 14 June 2002
available in PDF format at
http://www.cib-w78-2002.dk/papers/papers/cib02-55.pdf

C. Lima, M. Wetherill, A. Zarli, M. Bourdeau, Y. Rezgui, 2002. "The
e-CKMI: the e-COGNOS approach to support Knowledge Management in the
Building and Construction Industry", In proceedings of the ECPPM 2002
eWork and eBusiness in AEC, Portoroz, Slovenia, September 2002.
http://www.e-cognos.org/Downloads/Publications/ECPPM-2002.pdf

C. Lima, M.Wetherill, B. Fies, A. Zarli, Y. Rezgui, 2002. "The e-CKMI:
an Ontology-enabled platform to support KM in construction", eWork
2002 Conference, Prague, October 2002.
http://www.e-cognos.org/Downloads/Publications/eWORK.pdf

McLoughlin, P, Alderman, N, Ivory, C J, Thwaites, A and Vaughan, R.
(2000) Knowledge management in long term engineering projects paper
presented at the Knowledge Management: Controversies and Causes
Conference, University of Warwick, 10-11 February
http://bprc.warwick.ac.uk/km065.pdf

Miozzo, M, and Ivory, C. J. (1999) Networks of competitive advantage:
restructuring the British construction industry Technology Analysis
and Strategic Management, vol. 12, 4

Orange, Graham Alan Burke and Mike Cushman 1999. "An Approach to
Support Reflection and Organisation Learning within the UK
Construction Industry"
Paper presented to BITWorld'99: Business Information Technology
Management: The Global Imperative, Cape Town, South Africa, 30 June -
2 July 1999. http://is.lse.ac.uk/b-hive/pdf/bitworld.pdf

Orange et al. 2000 Orange, G., Burke, A. and Boam, J. (2000), "The
facilitation of cross organisational learning and knowledge management
to foster partnering within the UK construction industry", Paper
submitted to ECIS 2000 (http://is.lse.ac.uk/b-hive), available in PDF
format at http://is.lse.ac.uk/b-hive/OL%20and%20KM%20to%20foster%20partnering.pdf
(you must have an Acrobat Reader. If this link doesn't work, try
accessing it from http://is.lse.ac.uk/b-hive/publications.htm).

Sverlinger, Per Olof, 1999. "Knowledge management in construction: an
inside perspective of four technical consultant companies" A paper
presented at the Nordic Seminar 12-13 April 1999 - Göteborg, Sweden.
You could order the seminar book "Construction Economics and
Organization 1999" here: 
http://www.bem.chalmers.se/sh/forskning/enordsem99.htm

M. Wetherill, Y. Rezgui, C. Lima, A. Zarli, "Knowledge Management for
the construction industry: the e-COGNOS project", USAL, ITCON Journal,
special issue on KM.
http://www.e-cognos.org/Downloads/Publications/ITCON-KM4ConstructionIndustry_e-CognosISTProject.pdf


Dissertations
=============
Sverlinger P.O. M. (2000): Managing Knowledge in Professional Service
Organisations: TechnicalConsultants Serving the Construction Industry.
Doktorsafhandlinger Chalmers Universitet. Nr 1644. Available online in
PDF format http://www.bidigital.com/papers/bi/Knowledge_Management_Avhandling_2000.pdf

Axelsson, Mattias and Henrik Landlius. 2002. "An Information System as
an Enabler of Knowledge Transfer- A case study of the Skanska
Knowledge Network at Skanska AB" MA Thesis CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF
TECHNOLOGY http://www.bem.chalmers.se/sh/utbildning/pdf_exarbete/exarbete2002-2.pdf



On-Going Projects
=================

University of Newcastle leads a project on Strategic Procurement and
Knowledge Management in Long Term Engineering Pojects
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/labs/frnt.htm

The Henley Knowledge Management Research Institute
(<http://www.henleymc.ac.uk/General/hmcprog.nsf/pages/kmrihome>) have
a research unit on construction KM
(http://www.henleymc.ac.uk/General/hmcprog.nsf/pages/kmconstruction).

Professor David Gann and Dr Ammon Salter of the SPRU, University of
Sussex, and Professor John Bessant and Dr Jonathan Sapsed of the
CENTRIM, University of Brighton, run together a joint research on the
subject, titled "Identification and Development of Best Practice
Resources in Knowledge Management for the Construction Industry"
(http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/imichair/projects/template.cfm?content=knowman.cfm).

Professor Paul Quintas of the Open Universtiy UK is also involved in a
project of KM for the construction industry
(http://www3.open.ac.uk/oubs/projects/pj48.htm). Also see the site
http://www.knowledgemanagement.uk.net/


General KM Bibliography and Referrences
=======================================
Rollett, Herwig, 2002. "Knowledge Management Bibliography"
http://www2.iicm.edu/herwig/kmbib.pdf

I hope that helped. Please contact me if you need any further
information regarding this question. I'd be pleased to clarify the
information before you rate the answer.
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