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Baba, K (1990) Principal Nature of Management in Japanese Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 351–64.

Chang, T C, Ibbs, C W and Crandall, K C (1990) Network Resource Allocation with Support of a Fuzzy Expert System. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 239–60.

Farid, F (1990) Pricing Construction Contracts under Tax Reform Act of 1986. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 300–15.

Harris, R B (1990) Packing Method for Resource Leveling (Pack). Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 331–50.

Kumamoto, T, Kameda, H, Hoshiya, M and Ishii, K (1990) Construction of Difficult Dry Dock in Yokohama, Japan. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 201–20.

Lutz, J D, Chang, L and Napier, T R (1990) Evaluation of New Building Technology. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 281–99.

Moselhi, O and Nicholas, M J (1990) Hybrid Expert System for Construction Planning and Scheduling. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 221–38.

Rasdorf, W J and Herbert, M J (1990) Bar Coding in Construction Engineering. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 261–80.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Construction industry; Automation; Inventories; Control systems; Information systems; Databases; Information retrieval; Project management;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(1990)116:2(261)
  • Abstract:
    Automated inventory control has been used for many years in such industries as manufacturing, automotive, and retail grocery. These industries have recognized technologies such as bar coding, magnetic stripe, optical character recognition, and radio frequency as viable solutions to the information and production control problems they encounter. This paper presents a construction information management system (CIMS) for the control of information used by project management. This system successfully transfers a resource identification and tracking (RIT) technology, namely bar coding, from a manufacturing environment to control data acquisition needs for construction. In addition, CIMS integrates scheduling, inventory, cost, and document control application programs with a central data base management system (DBMS) using stand‐alone software, a DBMS programming language, and a spreadsheet. An introduction to the objectives and unique contribution of CIMS is presented, along with a review of other related construction industry research. The information needs of construction engineering are reviewed to determine how a system such as CIMS can satisfy those needs. A generic system architecture is described, and an implementation of the architecture is presented.

Reda, R M (1990) RPM: Repetitive Project Modeling. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 316–30.

Sanvido, V E and Medeiros, D J (1990) Applying Computer‐Integrated Manufacturing Concepts to Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 116(02), 365–79.