Construction Industry Workshop

Background and objectives

Brussels, Friday, 30 June 2006

At this workshop, results of the interim sector study on the construction industry were presented and discussed. Members of the e-Business W@tch study team presented their assessment of developments in the following areas:

• Implications of e-procurement for the construction industry: use of e-procurement by companies, implications of public e-procurement for construction firms as tenderers;
• Developments in 3D technology and their application in the construction industry;
• The use of project web tools in the construction industry.

Programme and Conclusions

• Workshop programme, 56 KB
• Summary and conclusions, 100 KB

Chair

• Georgios Karageorgos, European Commission, DG Enterprise & Industry
• Kasper Ovesen, Rambøll Management

Workshop presentations

• ICT and E-Business in the construction industry (Kasper Ovesen, Ramboll Management) 678 KB
• Use of e-procurement in the construction industry (Farzin Saber, IBX Services & Solutions) 651 KB
• e-Procurement, 3D Technologies and Project Web in Lithuania
  (Arturas Kaklauskas, Vilnius GediminasTechnical University)
  1.3 MB
• The Norwegian initiative on digital construction (Mr. Øivind Rooth, The National Office of Building Technology and Administration, Norway) 2.04 MB