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I. Kovacic, C. Prinz:
"Information and Knowledge Management in the planning process - Case Study: ATP architects and engineers Database";
Talk: CIB Joint International Symposium 2009, Construction Facing Worldwide Challenges, Dubrovnik; 2009-09-27 - 2009-10-01; in: "Construction Facing Worldwide Challenges", (2009), ISBN: 978-953-6272-35-8; 10 pages.

Innovation is considered to be one of the major driving forces of economic development within global context; a guarantee for sustainable development of an enterprise. Innovation stands in close relationship with generation of knowledge - accordingly the only true capital value of a business is knowledge. Knowledge transfer occurs through communication among employees; which immediately contributes to expansion of the knowledge stock of a business; consequently to the capital value and competitiveness. The knowledge existing only in the employees´ heads as well as the knowledge stashed within file folders is the useless knowledge, that should be encouraged towards exchange; which again succeeds through formal and informal communication. The management, dissemination and availability of information (knowledge) play crucial role in efficiency and development of an enterprise.

The project and real estate development is an area with constantly increasing flows of information. The international ATP architect and engineers group has set as aim the implementation of an information and knowledge management system: a country-related Database. The database consists of all information considering processes of: development, planning, construction and delivery of real estates; systemized accordingly to the country of the group´s developing and planning activities. The Database should comply with the specific requirements of the group´s corporate policy and should be integrated in the existing (CAD) software platform.

The paper will present a customized country-related planning process database model for the ATP Group.
A requirement profile will be introduced and compared to the existing knowledge management systems from the realm of urban planning and construction. A database model with all the modules and its functionality will be demonstrated.
The focus will lay on the three most important functionality requests: renewal, up-to-dateness; dissemination. An instruction manual with guidelines for the use of the database and its successful placement within the company will be introduced.

Keywords: information management, knowledge dissemination, project management

Sustainability, Integrated Planning

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_182762.doc