ABSTRACT
The subject of supplying building material information to the users has been tremendously developed by the help of the opportunities of emerging information technologies particularly within the last decade. The CONNET initiative provides an open arena through which appropriate information resources can be identified within a nation and across Europe. CONNET has been developed through Embedded Commissioning fiinding to become an open portal to connect industry practitioners to relevant information. Building material alternatives in the database were classified in the context of first group of objectives of the research project. Therefore, users could easily take advantage of cost estimation module for the current market prices of the building material alternatives as well as technical information forms. A web-based building material information tool should have a role to orient the building material sector by encouraging the manufacturers to produce high quality products and by helping users to aware in assessing and choosing building materials in Turkey.
