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Article: Seize the opportunity: join a virtual project team. (architectural and engineering construction)
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- Building Design & Construction
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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Internet-based communications offer a new level of efficiency*.
The single most important issue facing AEC project teams is project efficiency. Building owners, operators and tenants are demanding more from their buildings -- more energy savings, more space efficiency, more intelligence. With reduced fees, shorter schedules and more competition for less work, all firms must reduce their operating costs while still delivering the quality product that clients demand.
Today, much of the work that is being done by the owner, the construction manager and the architect is still based on the old paper model system. Although CADD and word processing programs have ...