ABSTRACT
Process-orientation is important for the support and the coordination of planning processes in the building and construction industry. This contribution presents an approach to support the network based planning processes in civil engineering based on a formal description of planning processes with regard to specific process-relevant product model information. The objective is to enable process modeling, process analysis and process control based on Petri Nets with individual tokens. Planning processes in the building and construction industry differ from planning and design processes of other industry domains by specific characteristics. Process Model in Structural Engineering is based on Petri Nets with individual tokens to represent and evaluate process-relevant product model information. The Petri Nets provide both a mathematical formalism and a graphical representation based on the graph theory in order to model the concurrent and asynchronous behaviour of a discrete system. Petri Nets with individual tokens are well-suited for systems modeling communication, concurrency, synchronization and resource sharing.
