Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Concurrent Engineering
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Cus-Babic, N.
Right arrow Articles by Radosavljevic, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

MC as a Means for Supporting Information Flow in Construction Processes

Nenad Cus-Babic

Construction IT Center, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Danijel Rebolj

Construction IT Center, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Ales Magdic

Construction IT Center, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Milan Radosavljevic

Construction IT Center, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

This paper initially presents the potential use of mobile computing in the construction industry. However, it is further assumed that the use of mobile computing can significantly improve the flow of relevant information among the project participants only if the present organisational culture is subject to changes. That is further supported with the results from the experimental study of the potential use of various mobile computing devices in the project information exchange. In this respect only cost effective, commonly available and standardised solutions would prove a project-wide applicability. The final objective of the paper is to show why there should be further research in mobile computing focused on identifying weaknesses in project-related information exchange and how to apply existing optimised IT procedures to alleviate these weaknesses.

Key Words: mobile computing • construction • organisational innovation • information flow • productivity

Concurrent Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, 37-46 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X03011001004
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?