ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the work to be done by the FUNSIEC project, which aims to evaluate the feasibility of building an Open Semantic Infrastructure for the European Construction Sector. It discusses the FUNSIEC approach. The chapter presents the inputs used in FUNSIEC. It explores the status of the project and the problems envisaged. BARBi is a project initiated by the Norwegian construction industry to establish a reference data library with a complete collection of all concepts and objects from the building and construction industry with associated properties and relationships. Promotion, dissemination, reach visibility of FUNSIEC within the sector is the major challenge on the long way towards the education of construction organisation over SRs. The e-COGNOS Knowledge Management Infrastructure has been developed as a middleware solution offering web services to support KM needs in construction companies. The e-COGNOS ontology focuses on construction concepts as they relate to eCOGNOS main objective: consistent knowledge representation of construction knowledge items.
