Standards Media and Methods.
Standards Media and Methods.
(719 K)
Wright, R. N.
Applications of the Performance Concept in Building.
CIB-ASTM-ISO-RILEM 3rd International Symposium. Volume
1. Proceedings. National Building Research Institute.
December 9-12, 1996, Tel-Aviv, Israel, National Building
Research Inst., Haifa, Israel, 1/113-125 pp, 1999.
Automation in Construction, Vol. 8, 473-479, 1999.
Keywords:
standards; information dissemination; construction;
standardization
Abstract:
The global marketplace and advances in information
technologies are leading to great changes in standards.
These include growing reliance on international national
standards, new standards-development techniques, and new
media and environments in which standards are expressed.
Both general and project-specific information are being
stored in and accessed from distributed, electronic,
object-oriented data bases. Standards available from
general-purpose information systems will be capable of
accessing and processing data to evaluate compliance
with their provisions. Such standards will be
convenient and efficient: input data will be accessed
automatically from pertinent fields of the general and
project-specific databases; results of evaluations will
be recorded automatically in the project-specific
database and used in decisions affecting design,
construction or operation of constructed facilities.
Major uses of standards will be associated with
computer-aided systems and major revenues from uses of
standards will accrue to systems developers and users.
Standards-developing organizations should respond to
this marketplace by themselves producing standards in
the form of executable objects. Computer aids can
assist in the formulation and expression of standards
that are complete in coverage of the intended scope,
consistent and unambiguous in their logic, and correct
in reproducing the intent of the formulators.
