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The Web-based Mobile Applications for Construction Management.
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The construction industry is an information-based industry, the progression of which requires the most effective and efficient tools in management, more specifically in managing the information flow between project team members. These tools become essential to a project management team dealing with the complexity and changing needs in the construct...
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... of mobile phones with computing technology, made new ways of working possible in many project management team. Table 1 shows the selected web-based project management software and applications that support mobility. These software applications are an extra tool and technology that makes managing a project become easier and much more effective, especially in managing the project resources and collaboration within the project team. ...
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... In the context of construction project management, these technologies offer data access, computation, networking, collaboration, and communication functionalities regardless of time and location (Mathiassen and Sørensen 2008;Anumba and Wang 2012). With greater flexibility in time and location, especially, construction management professionals can collaborate with spatially distributed project participants in construction projects much more effectively (Weippert et al. 2002;Fathi et al. 2012). ...
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... Since the construction industry is basically an information-based industry, which necessitates the most effective and efficient tools in management, mobile devices are a valuable tool in the information flow between project teams (Fathi, Abedi, & Rawai, 2012). These tools help deal with the complexity and changing needs of projects. ...
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... A "project data as a service" cloud application model was designed and implemented to solve the big-data lifecycle management problem in architecture, engineering, construction and facilities management (AEC/FM) sector via a case study of the Shanghai Tower [47]. Web-based digital technologies including cloud computing technology, which had provided a choice for e-tendering application of which Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) were used in tender prequalification and selection [31]. Similarly, the technology of unmanned aerial vehicle could be integrated with M-internet in order to improve the efficiency of data acquisition or tracking the workforce location [98,125]. ...
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... Incorporating sustainability as a major objective of the construction process is a strategic, competitive factor in today's construction industry. Fragmentation, poor integration and the complexities of activities associated with construction projects, makes the managing task increasingly complex [1]. Additionally, same information is manipulated and exchanged within the construction industry Such as drawings are re-drawn and lists are re-entered. ...
... Hence, the major effort will be to improve the coordination, collaboration and communications within the construction project supply chain at early stages of planning and design. Otherwise, any variation and revisions by supply chain parties within the construction projects could indeed rise up many communications contributing to inefficiencies and less productivity [1]. ...
... Hence, the major effort will be to improve the coordination, collaboration and communications within the construction project management at the early stages of planning and design. These factors could have negative consequences for the project objectives which could influence the time of completion, cost, quality and safety [1]. While as, clients as major parties within the construction projects are demanding for cost efficient, higher quality, shorter construction time and achieving accurate and up to date information within the construction projects will lead to the uprising of innovative collaborative technologies for the construction industry [2,3] Even though there have been different implementations of technological tools within the construction industry [4,5], there are still numerous challenges in the current construction processes which have contributed to poorquality projects [4]. ...
Integrated information, innovation and collaboration are the key factors for the sustainable development of construction organizations nowadays. The advancement of cloud computing technology offers construction organizations great potential for developing a collaborative and integrated environment for construction management. This paper presents an in-depth literature review of cloud computing in construction management. Findings from this review have shown that the benefit of using cloud computing technology for construction collaboration will reduce both energy consumption and CO2 emissions, indeed, it is more towards a green mission as it also provides both a financial return and a tangible environmental benefit. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to investigate the most valuable construction collaboration tools as the cloud computing technology along with the main concepts of sustainable project management. The findings in this research illustrate that with implementing the cloud computing in construction industry, it will facilitate the construction processes, collaborations, communications, relations and networks through the construction industry. Firstly, it is hoped that this study will contribute on improvements in construction industry collaboration which could ultimately improve and enhance the competitive advantages within the construction industry. Secondly, it introduces the new visions of construction industry integration and most significantly collaboration in an efficient way that will eventually maximise the productivity, enhance the efficiency and improve the effectiveness towards a green construction industry.
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