Overall Objective

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Overall Objective

• The main objective of e-NVISION is the
  development and validation of an innovative
  e-Business platform enabling SMEs
• to model and adapt particular business scenarios
  
• to integrate all their enterprise applications
  and
• to incorporate legal, economic, social and
  cultural services, .
• with the final goal of facilitating SMEs
  participation in the Future European e-Business
  Scenario.
• The e-Business platformwill be validated in
  theConstruction and Building Industry Sector
  taking as reference several cases executed in 4
  differentEuropean Countries

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Partner Location
e-NVISION Consortium
Spain LABEIN- TECNALIA SOFTEC ASEFAVE France
CSTB BBS-SLAMA Lithuania EUROPARAMA HRONO
statyba KTU ITERIJA Poland ASM K-PSI ATUTOR
PROCHEM Slovenia ZRMK CCS NEOSYS
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Consortium expertise
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Construction Processes and Scenarios Selection
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Trends and Future of e-business in construction

• CONSTRUCTION TRENDS
• Common construction model and product description
• Industrialization
• Common certifications and marks
• Electronic infrastructure
• User Requirements
• Final Private User

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Construction Processes

• Current construction processes
• PM-01. TENDER AND AGREEMENT WITH THE GENERAL
  CONTRACTOR
• PM-02. CONTROL OF DESIGN DOCUMENTATION.
• PM-03. PLANNING AND SCHEDULING
• PM-04. CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION
• PM-05. INVESTORS SUPERVISION
• PM-06. MARSHALLING OF MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT
  DELIVERIES
• PM-07. ORGANISATION OF PROCESS START-UP
• PM-08. PREPARING REPORTS
• PM-09. CONTROL OF COSTS AND FINANCIAL SETTLEMENTS
• PM-10. FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND REPORT
• PM-11.DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY
  ASSURANCE PROGRAMME
• PM-12. SUPERVISION OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
  MATTERS

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Scenarios selection

• PM-01. TENDER AND AGREEMENT WITH THE GENERAL
  CONTRACTOR
• E-Tendering this scenario focuses on two of the
  main concerns of the government bodies and
  institutions which are to encourage more SMEs to
  respond to tender notices as well as to ensure
  transparency in public processes.
• PM-04. CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION
• E-site this scenario deals with delays in the
  construction works and tries to solve this
  problem by improving the coordination of
  companies during construction. Any incident in
  the construction site will be automatically
  reported to the interested partners so that they
  can react as soon as possible.
• PM-06. MARSHALLING OF MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT
  DELIVERIES
• E-Procurement this scenario provides an
  effective and rational supplier selection model
  to discover, evaluate and select potential
  providers.
• PM11.DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY
  ASSURANCE PROGRAMME
• E-Quality instead of developing a specific
  quality model compliant with the country where
  regulation is applied, it was agreed to include
  the quality concepts in the other data models.
  The e-Quality Scenario includes only the
  envisioning storytelling.

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e-NVISION General Approach
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e-NVISION Architecture
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e-Business Semantic Platform

• e-Business Technological Platform
• Nowadays there are several initiatives in the
  development of e-Business platforms.
• DBE Platform.
• SOA and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible
  Markup Language)
• e-Business Model
• Data Models
• Internal Business Processes
• Dynamics
• Decision points
• Connection to external and integration services
• Semantic e-Business Model
• Data Models formalised as ontologies
• Dynamics of the business process
• Semantic composition of services.
• Automatic workflow generation.
• Intelligent decision points

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e-NVISION Contribution

• Not focused on the development of another
  platform.
• Pre-requisite
• Not the main issue (DBE Cluster)
• Integration of existing technology
• Open-Source
• The contributions of the e-NVISION
• Envisioning construction e-Business scenarios
• Taking into account SMEs needs and expectations
• Pre-requisites needed to make the scenarios
  possible.
• Development of specific data models
• Provide the basis for the standardisation of the
  concepts managed in construction processes.
• Business models needed to deploy the scenarios
• BPM Internal organization
• SOA External and integration services
• Definition and Development of external services
  that help SMEs to participate in e-Business
  transactions.
• These services will include among others, legal,
  economic and trust aspects.
• Development of integration services.
• Facilitating the integration with the SMES
  backend enterprise applications.

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Why e-Business?

• PMC centralized construction management
  application.
• Include all construction phases
• Specific interface
• Web Based (Instead of services based)
• Too complex for most SMEs
• SMEs are involved only in a few construction
  stages.
• Only considers PMCs point of view
• SMEs can be working in several construction
  projects with different scheduling constraints
  (providing services, materials or equipment)
• E-Business approach isolates SMEs
• e-Business interfaces independent of the PMC
  management system
• SMEs only deal with the information they need

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Example Scheduling
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WP2 e-Business Model Definition Approach

• From current construction processes To
  envisioning story telling
• External and internal needs
• e-Business models

D2.1 e-Business Scenarios for the Future D2.2
Future SMEs Requirements and Needs for the future
Electronic Business D2.3 Service-based
reference e-Business Model for SMEs
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From current construction processes To
envisioning story telling

• Current construction processes
• 12 different processes
• Current trends (external sources)
• ECTP European Construction Technology Platform
• eBusiness Watch Construction Sector
• European Regulation Trends
• Selection of most appropriate ones
• e-Tendering
• e-Procurement
• e-Site
• e-Quality
• Story tellings
• Points of view
• PMC
• Other participants (SMEs)
• Current - Envisioning

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Requirements and Needs

• Internal need anything that the SME should adopt
  internally in order to take part in the e-NVISION
  scenario.
• External need Anything external to the SME
  without which the SME cannot take part in the
  scenario, that is, all the data models, external
  services, agents, etc which are necessary for
  the future deployment of the e-NVISION scenarios.
• Internal context
• Infrastructure
• Internal services
• Organization
• Socio-cultural changes
• External context
• Data models
• External services
• Socio-cultural needs

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SME external needs
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SME internal needs
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e-Business Model

• Data models
• Business processes
• Dynamics
• Decision points
• Connection with external and integration services