A building material evaluation and selection model for the Turkish construction sector


Tas E. F., Yaman H., Tanaçan L.

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, cilt.15, sa.2, ss.149-163, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

Özet

The research project called “Designing a building material relational database management system for Turkish construction sector”, aims to join “supply side” and “demand side” in the same environment that works on the subject of building material information in the Turkish construction sector. The paper aims to discuss the project findings.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were gathered from the information supplied and demanded from the points of sources, levels and frequency of updating by the help of the questionnaires conducted. The data gathered were integrated into the pre‐construction stage and used in the analysis of the process as to how this information was used by the “demand side” for building material information. IDEF‐0, a structured methodology for functional process analysis, is used to figure out building material evaluation and selection processes in the pre‐construction stage.