This paper presents a solution to enhance communication between construction site actors (e.g.: site foreman) and remote actors (e.g.: design office, project manager, suppliers) of a construction project. It shows the underlying concepts and the preliminary design of tools made to face, as efficiently as possible, and react to unpredictable events that occur on site and which significantly affect the construction schedule planning and generally the project. As these unforeseen events take part in the responsibility of the overall construction project costs, this paper will discuss how to deal with this issue by offering some services in order to provide a better reactivity, adaptation and decision making process. We will present how, by simply logging events, it is for example possible to adapt the schedule on a real-time basis. This approach relies on some graphical user interface applications available on mobile devices, a distributed communication environment with a Service Oriented Architecture, and a construction business oriented ontology which will implement self learning capabilities in the future, based on previous projects experience.
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