Semester 6 course, 1998

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Last update 1998.10.28 (1998.08.19 ) [1998.02.01]

Introduction

The 'IT in the Building Process' is a new course which is now introduced at semester 6 of the M.Sc. and B.Sc. education levels at Aalborg University. The course will be extended and followed up at semester 9 taking into account feed-back from course participants and teachers. The course will integrate with other disciplines at Aalborg University mainly departments of: Production, Development & Planning, and Electronic Systems.

Feed-back during the course can also contribute to smaller changes of the content of the current course.

The project work shall be documented and made accessible from the World Wide Web. The documentation should be limited to corresponding to 4 A4 pages and contain (also get inspiration from the layout of this pages)

• problem description
• solution strategy and findings from the project work
• solution summary
• references.

Aims

It becomes increasingly important to achieve a deep understanding of the ongoing large scale introduction of IT-tools in the building process. We have for example some years been using the well known tools as spread sheets, databases and CAD systems. The focus now is on introducing new IT tools for collaboration, knowledge storing, integration of resources, integration of computer application models, advanced multimedial interfaces and management of the actual change process and the design of completely new and unfamiliar IT-tools.

There is in the building sector an increasing need for persons with knowledge both about the building process and information technology. The semester 6 IT-course will put the development of IT-tools in the building process in timely and global perspective, concretize the expected development within the area, explain and exemplify new possibilities to raise quality both on the final results (buildings and their use) as well as the building process itself by introduction of efficient IT-tools, give a deeper understanding of the role of IT in the future building process, give the fundaments for extended studies in particular areas and finally serve as a vehicle for distributed life long learning.

Lectures will give theoretical background, overview, and illustration of future development within the area as well as inspiration for further reading and own exploration of IT-tools.

Course layout

The course starts February 2 and ends May 29 1998. 10 lectures and exercises in IT in the Building Process' are scheduled for the period February 3 to April 7 (Tuesday afternoon between 12.30 - 16.00).
All lectures will take place in room B:209.
The exercises will take place in C:119 and/or at the group rooms.

Lectures are meant to inspire to further individual and group learning activities. The lectures will be documented on the web as lecture notes with pointers to further reading. The exercises can be carried through individually or as group works. Comments on lectures and exercises content are requested on the Word Wide web during the exercises.

Good exercise results and results from PE projects will be stored in connection to course pages on the WWW to serve as inspiration material for following years students. (The course layout for those parts where institute 9 also is participating).

An online test evaluation of the course was carried through. Only 12 (31%) of the 38 participants filled in the evaluation form. Therefore the result is not representative but gives an idea about the value of an on-line evaluation tool.

Participants

The course participants and their email are listed separately. Here you also find the semester 6 'projects on the web'.

Teachers:

• Per Christiansson (course responsible)
• Poul Henning Kirkegaard (assistant teacher)
• Erk Bejder (guest lecturer)
• Anders Ryter (guest lecturer)

Further reading

References are listed separately. These may be books, journal papers, links on he World Wide Web etc.

Per Christiansson