ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results of a survey on the research and development themes in construction informatics. Core research themes are related to processing activities and communication/coordination activities. It has been found out that the 5th framework projects made a breakthrough in the themes related to ebusiness and e-commerce. The 5th framework projects seem to have made a decisive/sufficient breakthrough in the themes related to e-business and e-commerce. The design of the survey was based on the definition of a generic process model of research and development that is then used as a basis for the topic map of construction informatics. Knowledge management involves the identification and analysis of available and required knowledge assets and knowledge asset related processes, and the subsequent planning and control of actions to develop both the assets and the processes so as to fulfil organisational objectives.
