Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Construction projects distributed in many places,varity of work type ,
have multi disciplines these have big effect on communication management ,
therefore this research studies the ability to use advanced communicative
tools such as computer mediated communication (CMC) instead of traditional
communication face to face (FTF). Revit application which is based on BIM
technology have been used and it helps in exchanging design information
between the designer and the site engineer for rapidity in making decisions ,
solving problems ,reducing wasted time and reducing the expenses that are
spent as a result of the use of FTF communication .The results which were
concluded from this research are that communicative quantity in FTF was
more than in CMC ,but it is indicating that communication in CMC might
be more productive than communication in FTF.In addition, the working
time in CMC was slightly higher than in FTF.This indicates that CMC was
slightly more productive than FTF . Wasted time for FTF consistently is
higher than wasted time in CMC and this is because FTF was easier than
CMC in terms of social speech. To identify the degree of collaboration
between users two methods were used so the the total number of exchanges
in CMC was higher than in FTF because most persons were having more
interaction when they used CMC. Moreover, the cumulative productivity in
CMC was higher than of FTF and this indicates that CMC communication
provides agood environment for collaborative work which ,in turn ,it
increases team , also researcher study relation between team productivity and
communication parameters ,there is a strong correlation factor between team
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productivity and total number of work related words in both FTF and CMC
for each time interval and this relation was negative in FTF while positive in
CMC for 16 experiments . For number of exchanges which consider is a
measure of the degree of collaboration, the correlation was strong between
productivity and number of exchange in both communication techniques.
Finally team productivity was a negative relationship with wasted time and
positive with working time.
