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Project Summary: This project addresses the ICT theme of e-Knowledge, and the opportunities that this offers for seamless information flow through the building services supply chain. The project will be based on the setting up of a Network of leading edge thinkers in the building services industry and in e-Knowledge. Scenarios of the future will be developed from which the key barriers and enablers to effective implementation can be identified. Lead Organisation: BSRIA Project Partners: Need: The objective of the study is to improve competitiveness in building services manufacturing by introducing innovative ICT solutions to improve business processes. Solution: Provide, and widely disseminate, a map of the opportunities for the exploitation of e-Knowledge in the building services supply chain in the next three to five years, based on scenarios for the building services supply chain and the development of e-Knowledge. Identify opportunities, issues and barriers to exploitation and make recommendations at a number of different levels: individual, e.g. through skills and training, firm, industry (where action can be taken through the research or trade associations) and government. In particular examine the cultural barriers to uptake and how these may be overcome. Benefits: More supply chain integration with manufacturers working more closely with contractors, and hence higher productivity, and improved opportunity for innovation. Development of e-market places, reducing costs of supply for manufacturers and enlarging their market place. Empowerment of the workforce, whether in buying office, in factory or on site. Reduction of waste, initially in better planning, and hence better allocation of product and labour, and subsequently in a reduction of rework which invariably falls on the manufacturers as errors are reduced. |
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