Coordination between Project Participants through Constraint-Management

Project parties need to contribute their efforts throughout the project life-cycle. This is especially the case in fast-tracked projects that have become commonplace in construction industry. The crude methods available currently have become inadequate for these severe demands. in this paper, we describe the utility of constraint management theory as a tool for building an integrated knowledge base to coordinate across disciplines involved in the overall project life-cycle. The paper starts with a brief description of the coordination problem in AEC industry. A constraint-based view of a project's life cycle is then described in section 2. Section 3 discusses the functionality and different issues related to implementation of a computer system to facilitate coordination. Section 4 describes the scope of and the environment that we have chosen for implementation. The paper ends with conclusions based on the current state of this project.