CIVIL ENGINEERING
INFORMATION SYSTEM
1 WHAT IS CIVIL ENGINEERING?
Civil engineering is a professional engineering
discipline that deals with the design, construction, and
maintenance of the physical and naturally built
environment, including public works.
2 WHAT IS INFORMATION SYSTEM?
An integrated set of components for
collecting, storing, and processing data and
for providing information, knowledge, and
digital products.
3 WHAT IS CIVIL ENGINEERING INFORMATION SYSTEM?
This course is designed to expose the students
in analyzing, designing and developing the huge
of data. It concerns on the management of
information and how to model it in a structured
manner. This course also exposes the knowledge
on the usage, management and sharing of data
and information to ensure that information is
manipulated and used effectively.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
1 WHAT IS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT?
It is the collection and management of information
from one or more sources and the distribution of that
information to one or more audiences. This
sometimes involves those who have a stake in or a
right to that information. Management means the
organization of and control over the structure,
processing, and delivery of information.
Purpose of Information Management
Design, develop, manage, and use
information with insight and innovation.
Support decision making and create value for
individuals, organizations, communities, and
societies.
2 WHY MANAGE INFORMATION?
First : Traditional methods have not always worked.
• Late supply of information – common occurrence.
Example. Contractor will claim for an extension of the
contract period, to be paid by the client.
• Most construction personnel can cite many others
when information was badly managed.
2 WHY MANAGE INFORMATION?
Second : The scale of construction work has changed.
• It may easy to manage information when projects are few
and small.
• For 1 million project might involve 100 drawings, but for
200 millions project could easily generate 10,000
drawings.
• Become worse when the members of the project team try
to cope with several project at once.
• Pressure from clients to complete quickly and competition
within the industry.
• The numbers of people & organizations that any individual
has to communicate with also increased.
2 WHY MANAGE INFORMATION?
Second : The scale of construction work has changed.
• Construction project involve large numbers of people in
different disciplines working on instructions passed on by
others.
• It is important, those instructions are received when they are
needed, where it needed, easily understood, and leave a
clear record to show who has authorized what.
• If information correctly managed, it provides the framework
– everybody knows what his responsibilities and when to do
it.
• Or at the right time, right place to the right person.
3 WHY BOTHER MANAGING INFORMATION?
• Information management become important.
Some organizations have invested in developing
sophisticated computer-based system.
• Information management are now become a
necessary.
For the successful execution of a project.
A study conducted by NBA (National Building Agency)
in UK states the following benefits of managing information:
Better Communication
improved appreciation Shorter Construction Time
of the work of each getting specifications,
participants involved. schedules and details the Earlier Occupation
contractor at the right time earlier completion of the
project.
Project Information
• The information that describes the physical facility (product) and is
required for managing its process. It includes site survey, cost analysis,
design drawings, specifications, project planning, estimates, materials
and facility management.
• Large amount of project information's are generated and used during
the various stages of a project life. Sharing and maintaining this info in
multiple discipline and throughout a project’s life cycle is a complex
and difficult task.
• And thus, IT becomes a vital tool for managing info. Computer
and communication technology applied in the storage and retrieval of
information's.
one of the solutions for
Project Central Database sharing information.
• The principle of a database is that it is a singe centralized source of
information.
• Such central databases are usually develop as information networks
and can be use either at the project, enterprise or industry level.
• Many different users of information can share access to the same
information from the database.
