ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a software-framework, which helps to support the concurrent work of multiple planners in the construction industry. The efficient and accurate exchange of data is an important basis for a successful cooperative work in the field of computer-supported planning and design in building industry. This fact not only holds for the exchange inside a homogenous group of planners, it is also important for the data-transfer between planning processes within different working-domains. Using a classical client-server structure, the building model is provided centrally and can be accessed by different planners. The concurrent access to the database is organized similar to classical software-management-systems, where single entities can be ‘checked out’, locally modified and ‘checked in’ by the user. The geometric building model is the starting point for various subsequent tasks in the planning process. For the structural analysis, the chapter also presents an automatic generation of a volume-oriented finite element mesh, consisting of solid hexahedral elements.
