Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 6 Issue 1

The eLSEwise initiative

FIKRY GARAS, IAN HUNTER

Recognition of the importance of Large Scale Engineering (LSE) construction in the economics of Europe has resulted in the European Commission supporting the proposal for the…

Trends in world markets and the LSE industry

STEVEN MALE, DRAGANA MITROVIC

The Large Scale Engineering (LSE) industry operates in a global market place and during recent years it has been the scene of major political and economic changes resulting in…

Emerging clients' needs for Large Scale Engineering projects

TAREK M HASSAN, RON MCCAFFER, TONY THORPE

In recent years the Large Scale Engineering (LSE) construction sector in Europe has seen profound change. This is mainly due to increasing competitive pressures from the United…

ICT tools for improving the competitiveness of the LSE industry

M. HANNUS, G.T. LUITEN, A.S. WATSON, M. DEGUINE, G. SAUCE, T.P.J. VAN RIJN

This paper describes an analysis of Product Data and Information Technologies (PDIT) which are available to support processes in Large Scale Engineering (LSE), particularly those…

Large Scale Engineering project process and user requirements

DRAGANA MITROVIC, STEVEN MALE, IAN HUNTER, ALASTAIR WATSON

This paper presents results from an analysis of Large Scale Engineering (LSE) project process conducted within the ESPRIT 20876 project ‘eLSEwise’. The paper describes the LSE…

The eLSEwise vision, development routes and recommendations

IAN HUNTER, DRAGANA MITROVIC, TAREK M. HASSAN, ANGEL GAYOSO, FIKRY GARAS

eLSEwise is the acronym of ESPRIT project 20876 which investigated the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) needs of Large Scale Engineering (LSE) construction over the…

Impact of Large Scale Engineering products and processes on society—the eLSEwise view

LEELA DAMODARAN, JØRGEN RUBEK HANSEN, TAREK M. HASSAN, C.W. OLPHERT

The universal impact of Large Scale Engineering (LSE) projects is in evidence in diverse aspects of the personal and working lives of citizens around the globe. This does not only…

An approach to infrastructure client projects

STEN MELSON, TORBEN KRONSTAM

eLSEwise is a User Reference Project under the EU ESPRIT programme. The objective of eLSEwise is to analyse the Large Scale Engineering (LSE) sector in terms of IT usage and…

Public sector client‐private sector project: transferring the state construction administration into private hands

GOTTFRIED ZANTKE, BARBARA MANGELS

Due to the decreasing public budget, the Bremen state construction and building administration is undergoing serious changes. Efforts made, for more than 10 years, to tighten…