Computerized Information Standards Enabling Innovation in Public Procurement of Buildings
Paper in proceeding, 2014

Computerized and standardized information enables innovation in processes, products and services. Where early research on the impact of standards tended to focus on barriers, more recent research advocates standardisation as enabler of innovation albeit in a stakeholder-oriented, flexible manner. This paper asks whether computerized information standards enable or constrain innovation in public procurement of buildings. In architectural and engineering design of public buildings handling of information involves interoperability problems that hamper innovation. Moreover the project based product development tends be done in constellations of firms in interorganisational contracting, which do not provide stability or room for innovation. A large hospital project was investigated through interviews, documents and observations. The effects of implementing building information standards are both inter- and intraorganisational. The building client claims to have saved money, through better structured building component data that gave considerable positive effects during tendering. The IT-suppliers develop IT-tools, preparing for new markets.

Denmark

innovation

hospital building

information standards

Author

Christian Koch

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Construction Management

K. Jacobsen

K-Jacobsen A/S

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 8521 LNCS PART 1 373-383
978-3-319-07731-4 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Other Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-07731-4_38

ISBN

978-3-319-07731-4

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