Building Life Cycle Management Information Systems And Technologies

Download or read book Building Life-cycle Management. Information Systems and Technologies written by Alexander Ginzburg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information systems and construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Building Life-cycle Management. Information Systems and Technologies, held in Moscow, Russia on November 26, 2021. It covers highly diverse topics, including Information modeling technologies in building life-cycle management, Mathematical models and methods for building life-cycle management, Management of organizational processes in construction. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations in the construction industry.

Download or read book Sustainable Construction Technologies written by Vivian Y. Tam and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Construction Technologies: Life-Cycle Assessment provides practitioners with a tool to help them select technologies that are financially advantageous even though they have a higher initial cost. Chapters provide an overview of LCA and how it can be used in conjunction with other indicators to manage construction. Topics covered include indoor environment quality, energy efficiency, transport, water reuse, materials, land use and ecology, and more. The book presents a valuable tool for construction professionals and researchers that want to apply sustainable construction techniques to their projects. Practitioners will find the international case studies and discussions of worldwide regulation and standards particularly useful. - Provides a framework for analyzing sustainable construction technologies and economic viability - Introduces key credit criteria for different sustainable construction technologies - Covers the most relevant construction areas - Includes technologies that can be employed during the process of construction, or to the product of the construction process, i.e. buildings - Analyzes international rating systems and provides supporting case studies

Download or read book Advances in Building Technology written by M. Anson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.

Download or read book Life-Cycle of Engineering Systems: Emphasis on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure written by Jaap Bakker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at IALCCE2016, the fifth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2016), to be held in Delft, The Netherlands, October 16-19, 2016. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a DVD with full papers including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture, keynote lectures, and technical papers from all over the world. All major aspects of life-cycle engineering are addressed, with special focus on structural damage processes, life-cycle design, inspection, monitoring, assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation, life-cycle cost of structures and infrastructures, life-cycle performance of special structures, and life-cycle oriented computational tools. The aim of the editors is to provide a valuable source for anyone interested in life-cycle of civil infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and practitioners from all areas of engineering and industry.

Download or read book MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY written by S. J. P.T. JOSEPH and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textbook, now in its Second Edition, includes a new chapter on ERP as a Business Enabler. The text continues to provide a comprehensive coverage of business applications of management information systems in today's new era of knowledge-based economy where the value of a firm's knowledge assets has become a key source that can be leveraged into long-term benefits. The text focuses on the information systems requirements vis-à-vis management perspectives required in business environment. The technology innovations are covered, with particular emphasis on Data Management Systems, Decision Support and Expert Systems. On the other hand, several business applications such as e-commerce and mobile applications, made possible only because of continuing innovations in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) are thoroughly treated in the text. Besides, the book covers crucial issues of information security, and legal and ethical issues which are important both from the point of view of technology and business. The book uses case discussions in each chapter to help students understand MIS practices in organizations. The cases also enable students to grasp how a systemic approach to every functional aspect of management can lead to formulating technology-based strategies in line with corporate goals. Primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of management (BBA/MBA), the knowledge and information provided in this book will also be of immense value to business managers and practitioners for improving decision-making processes and achieving competitive advantage.

Download or read book Manufacturing and Engineering Technology (ICMET 2014) written by Ai Sheng and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing and Engineering Technology brings together around 200 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Manufacturing and Engineering Technology, held in San-ya, China, October 17-19, 2014. The main objective of these proceedings is to take the Manufacturing and Engineering Technology discussion a step further. Contributions cover Manufacture, Mechanical, Materials Science, Industrial Engineering, Control, Information and Computer Engineering. Furthermore, these proceedings provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academics as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Manufacturing Science and Engineering Technology.

Download or read book Management Information Systems written by Dr. R.Nandhini and published by AG PUBLISHING HOUSE (AGPH Books). This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written for readers who are interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of how modern businesses make use of information technology and systems in order to accomplish their organisational goals. When it comes to achieving operational excellence, producing new products and services, enhancing decision making, and gaining a competitive edge, one of the most important tools that company managers have at their command is the information system. Students, managers, graduates, and those who are just starting their careers in such a sector will discover the most up-to-date and thorough review of information systems that are now being utilised by businesses in this book. This overview will be found here. When conducting interviews with potential employees, companies often search for new personnel who are knowledgeable about how to use information systems and technology for the purpose of attaining bottom-line business goals. This book contains knowledge and information that will be useful to you throughout your whole business career, regardless of whether you majored in accounting, finance, management, operations management, marketing, or information systems.