Creating usable models for re-usable data - managing electronic project specification information

摘要

Small architectural firms (those that employ less than six people) account for an estimated 4525 or 74/100 of the total number of practices in the UK (RIBA, 2000), and market research has shown that there is a poor uptake of existing project specification information technologies in this sector. We present the results of an analysis of the ways that small practices currently create, manage and communicate project specification information and an overview of our research into new models to support these processes. The research has focused on the creation and population of appropriate, re-usable information models and we describe these in the context of other modelling initiatives in the Architecture.