1. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 1 Overall Objective  The main objective of e-NVISION is the development and validation of an innovative e-Business platform enabling SMEs  to model and adapt particular business scenarios;  to integrate all their enterprise applications and  to incorporate legal, economic, social and cultural services, ….  with the final goal of facilitating SMEs participation in the Future European e-Business Scenario.  The e-Business platform will be validated in the Construction and Building Industry Sector taking as reference several cases executed in 4 different European Countries

2. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 2 Partner Location e-NVISION Consortium Spain:LABEIN- TECNALIA SOFTEC ASEFAVE France:CSTB BBS-SLAMA Lithuania:EUROPARAMA HRONO statyba KTU ITERIJA Poland:ASM K-PSI ATUTOR PROCHEM Slovenia:ZRMK CCS NEOSYS

3. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 3 Consortium expertise Business Process Semantic Modelling OWL-S WSDL BPEL Information Communication Technologies XML Data Bases DBE eBXML Construction Process Tender Order / Inquire Process Site coordination Subcontracting

4. 1 st Review Meeting 21-03-2007 IST-028267-LAB-PRE-200703-1-v01 Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 6th FP (2002-2006) This presentation only reflects the author’s view and the Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein Construction Processes and Scenarios Selection

5. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 5 Trends and Future of e-business in construction  CONSTRUCTION TRENDS  Common construction model and product description  Industrialization  Common certifications and marks  Electronic infrastructure  User Requirements  Final Private User

6. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 6 Construction Processes  Current construction processes  PM-01. TENDER AND AGREEMENT WITH THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR  PM-02. CONTROL OF DESIGN DOCUMENTATION.  PM-03. PLANNING AND SCHEDULING  PM-04. CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION  PM-05. INVESTOR’S SUPERVISION  PM-06. MARSHALLING OF MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT DELIVERIES  PM-07. ORGANISATION OF PROCESS START-UP  PM-08. PREPARING REPORTS  PM-09. CONTROL OF COSTS AND FINANCIAL SETTLEMENTS  PM-10. FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND REPORT  PM-11.DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME  PM-12. SUPERVISION OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK MATTERS

7. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 7 Scenarios selection  PM-01. TENDER AND AGREEMENT WITH THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR  E-Tendering: this scenario focuses on two of the main concerns of the government bodies and institutions which are to encourage more SMEs to respond to tender notices as well as to ensure transparency in public processes.  PM-04. CONSTRUCTION COORDINATION  E-site: this scenario deals with delays in the construction works and tries to solve this problem by improving the coordination of companies during construction. Any incident in the construction site will be automatically reported to the interested partners so that they can react as soon as possible.  PM-06. MARSHALLING OF MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT DELIVERIES  E-Procurement: this scenario provides an effective and rational supplier selection model to discover, evaluate and select potential providers.  PM11.DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME  E-Quality: instead of developing a specific quality model compliant with the country where regulation is applied, it was agreed to include the quality concepts in the other data models. The e-Quality Scenario includes only the envisioning storytelling.

8. 1 st Review Meeting 21-03-2007 IST-028267-LAB-PRE-200703-1-v01 Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 6th FP (2002-2006) This presentation only reflects the author’s view and the Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein e-NVISION General Approach

9. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 9 SME e-Business Platform e-Business Platform e-NVISION Architecture Legal Org. Cluster Associations Cluster Associations Public Admin. Enterprise Applications ERP CRM Log. Contextual Integration Internal Integration SME Marketplac e Supplier s Custome r Supplier s Custome r

10. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 10 e-Business Semantic Platform  e-Business Technological Platform  Nowadays there are several initiatives in the development of e-Business platforms.  DBE Platform.  SOA and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).  ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language):  e-Business Model  Data Models  Internal Business Processes  Dynamics  Decision points  Connection to external and integration services  Semantic e-Business Model  Data Models formalised as ontologies  Dynamics of the business process  Semantic composition of services.  Automatic workflow generation.  “Intelligent” decision points  Semantic integration and external services  Our approach  Data models formalised as ontologies  Predefined workflow (Not semantic composition)  But … “Action Boxes” in the workflow are semantic based.  Semantic services (integration and external)  Some intelligent decision points

11. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 11 e-NVISION Contribution  Not focused on the development of another platform.  Pre-requisite  Not the main issue (DBE Cluster)  Integration of existing technology  Open-Source  The contributions of the e-NVISION:  Envisioning construction e-Business scenarios  Taking into account SMEs’ needs and expectations  Pre-requisites needed to make the scenarios possible.  Development of specific data models  Provide the basis for the standardisation of the concepts managed in construction processes.  Business models needed to deploy the scenarios  BPM: Internal organization  SOA: External and integration services  Definition and Development of external services that help SMEs to participate in e- Business transactions.  These services will include among others, legal, economic and trust aspects.  Development of integration services.  Facilitating the integration with the SMES’ backend enterprise applications.

12. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 12 Why e-Business?  PMC centralized construction management application.  Include all construction phases  Specific interface  Web Based (Instead of services based)  Too complex for most SMEs  SMEs are involved only in a few construction stages.  Only considers PMC’s point of view  SMEs can be working in several construction projects with different scheduling constraints (providing services, materials or equipment)  E-Business approach isolates SMEs  e-Business interfaces independent of the PMC management system  SMEs only deal with the information they need

13. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 13 Example: Scheduling Construction company (PMC) Internal Services e-Site e-Scheduling B2B Platform Document Management System General Designer Change Changes (Events) SME (Product or Service Provider) Internal Services e-Scheduling B2B Platform Working Documents

14. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 14 WP2 – e-Business Model Definition Approach  From current construction processes To envisioning story telling  External and internal needs  e-Business models D2.1 e-Business Scenarios for the Future D2.2 Future SMEs Requirements and Needs for the future Electronic Business D2.3 Service-based reference e-Business Model for SMEs

15. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 15 From current construction processes To envisioning story telling  Current construction processes  12 different processes  Current trends (external sources)  ECTP: European Construction Technology Platform  eBusiness Watch: Construction Sector  European Regulation Trends  Selection of most appropriate ones  e-Tendering  e-Procurement  e-Site  e-Quality  Story tellings  Points of view  PMC  Other participants (SMEs)  Current - Envisioning

16. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 16 Requirements and Needs  Internal need: anything that the SME should adopt internally in order to take part in the e-NVISION scenario.  External need: Anything external to the SME without which the SME cannot take part in the scenario, that is, all the data models, external services, agents, etc… which are necessary for the future deployment of the e-NVISION scenarios.  Internal context  Infrastructure  Internal services  Organization  Socio-cultural changes  External context  Data models  External services  Socio-cultural needs

17. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 17 SME external needs

18. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 18 SME internal needs

19. Brussels, 21-03-20071st Review MeetingCSTB Page: 19 e-Business Model  Data models  Business processes  Dynamics  Decision points  Connection with external and integration services