The Application of Knowledge Management for Construction Using Mobile PDA System

Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and World Wide Web (WWW) that are rapidly gaining popularity are fundamental technologies for a vision of information access for anyone, anytime, anywhere. However, there are few applications for on-site engineers to use the Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) in the construction industry. In the view of construction productivity, the fact it is not convenient for on-site engineers to record the construction process and obtain the needed information directly by using notebooks is an unsolved problem in the construction management. This paper describes a Mobile-PDA system for construction called Construction Personal Digital Assistants (ConPDA) System. ConPDA comprises five functions including daily report, material management, quality control management, experience tips, and specification database. The advantages of ConPDA is not only to collect data and information efficiently but also manage and re-use professional experience and knowledge.