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EIME Project Homepage

Engineering Information Management Executive

EPSRC grant GR/J07785

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The EIME Project was an EPSRC funded research programme directed at addressing the future information management needs of construction industry professioinals who are working in a computer-centred environment.

A concise summary of the project is provided in the Executive Summary with a more detailed overview of the project in the Final Report to EPSRC. A major output from the project has been a prototype implementation of an EIME which includes some innovative visual concepts.

To find out more please consult the following selection of technical reports, publication papers and other outputs:

• TP9: Introductory briefing on CBR and EIME type requirements
• TP10: Post first-cut architecture
• TP12: External System Specification of the EIME Prototype
• TP13: User Requirements
• TP14: Processes in Engineering
• TP16: The Benefits to users of future EIME systems
• TP18: Checklist of Data Management System Features
• TP19: Evaluation of GRAD software
• TP21: The EIME Project: Executive Summary
• TP22: Comparison of EIME functionality to Configuration Management Systems
• TP25: EIME Classification
• Managing Shared Data in a Design Environment; Watson, Riley and Kamperis, page 141-150, Concurrent Engineering in Construction, The Institution of Structural Engineers, 1997.
• PowerPoint slides for the above paper

Or contact Alastair Watson directly.

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Last updated 8th September1997

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