Web-Based Construction Project Document Information Center to Support Performance Impact Analyses

Contemporaneous documents are favored in claims litigation or arbitration over any after the-fact proofs like expert witnesses. Each contracting group in a project enterprise creates, manages, and stores its documents, using proprietary methods and systems. This has proven to be an expensive exercise when effecting court-ordered document exchanges during discovery periods. To solve this problem, a solution is developed in this research, entitled Web-Based Construction Project Document Information Center (CPDICenter), which allows all project groups the opportunity to share a common document information architecture, and central document storage. CPDICenter is webbased to eliminate both the high communication costs and users? steep learning curves.