Establishment of Network Infrastructure for Public Construction Purchase Electronization in Taiwan

Reasonable and up-to-date construction cost data is essential for budget making, bidding, and auditing in the construction industry. Generating a construction budget is a highly professional task and usually takes substantial time and man-hours to collect project cost data. Hence, it is always a critical point for the construction industry to set up a sophisticated cost database to improve the budgeting process, to react to price fluctuations, and to meet managerial demand. This paper will introduce an ongoing project ? ?Construction Cost Survey? -- which was launched by the Public Construction Commission, Executive Yuan (PCC), Republic of China and has been conducted by the Taiwan Construction Research Institute (TCRI) since 1996. The major points presented in this paper are the following: (1) Relevant projects which were performed by PCC and their goals, (2) The way and the channel which the project uses to acquire cost data, (3) The achievement the project has made and its web application development, and (4) Further research and work in the future.