FINNCORE - Construction Process Reengineering 

Type of the project: Enterprise 
Status 10/2002: Finished

Organization:

YIT Oyj:   http://www.yit.fi/ 

Contact person:

Jarmo Laitinen:   jarmo.laitinen@yit.fi

Project summary:

The key areas of the project were: 

• Development of the activities in the starting phase of construction process (briefing, integrated design and production planning based on the information produced in the earlier phases). 
• Conversion of the client needs to performance requirements and later in the process to technical solutions. 
• Producing alternative solutions and decision support to client, designers, YIT and suppliers. 
• Estimation of lice cycle costs and environmental impacts of the project. 
• Data transfer between partners based on the existing IAI/IFC/STEP definitions. The goal is to improve the possibilities of SME partners to join the use of new methods and processes. 
• The product data models developed in the Finnish RATAS projects are used as a reference model. 

The view point of YIT is the management of briefing, design and planning processes: 

• Cooperation with client and designers in early phases of the process: team work approach. 
• Ability to offer to the client in early phases estimation of production costs, time and life cycle cost and visualize alternative solutions. 
• Utilize the model based tendering/estimation system developed in Eureka 1077, COCON project. 
• Develop value analyzing tools in D++ software environment using the model based cost estimation of the COCON project. 
• Develop data bases to meet requirements of D++ application to enable rough estimation. 
• Develop tools for procurement planning 
• Integrate tools for design, planning, cost estimation and procurement so that they can directly use data produced in different phases of the process.