Reference number : GC-2017-Q2-00351, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Al-Hussein, Mohamed (University of Alberta), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Alberta, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project, program name french : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative - projet, program purpose english : Construction practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders of construction in Canada are  becoming increasingly cognizant of the need for a transformation in home building methods. The automotive  sector has enjoyed the benefits of automated design and manufacturing for years, and now the time  has come, with the skilled labour shortage and high demand for affordable housing, to propel that  same automation toward the home building industry. There has been an increasing demand for  extensions (i.e., add-ons enabled by Application Programming Interface) to existing design and _x000D_
drafting products in order to address the specific needs of the modular building industry and a  cloud-based information sharing environment intended for direct collaboration among multiple  project stakeholders (e.g., consumers and building designers). Therefore, the aim of this research  is to develop cloud-based building information modelling (BIM) tools for collaborative editing and  sharing of a model by users of widely different skill sets, from consumer to panelized home  designer, estimator, and production manager. In order to achieve the proposed objective, three  activities will be conducted: (1) migration of the collaborating company's (Cadsoft Corporation's)  code base to a service-oriented architecture; (2) real-time collaborative model editing; and (3) automated manufacturing-centric BIM. It can be expected that through this project the industry partner can  benefit by redefining their current BIM software, and the building industry can improve its  productivity and efficiency of design and drafting, decision making, and production. The proposed  research will form a BIM system that is suitable to the modularization/panelization construction  industry, and which optimizes the material usage of projects and reduces carbon chemical emissions  incurred during construction. These combined efforts will increase the workforce in the housing  industry, will lead to wider adoption of Cadsoft's Envisioneer software by home builders, and will  create increased demand for skilled jobs in the manufactured housing and design markets._x000D_, program purpose french : Construction practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders of construction in Canada are  becoming increasingly cognizant of the need for a transformation in home building methods. The automotive  sector has enjoyed the benefits of automated design and manufacturing for years, and now the time  has come, with the skilled labour shortage and high demand for affordable housing, to propel that  same automation toward the home building industry. There has been an increasing demand for  extensions (i.e., add-ons enabled by Application Programming Interface) to existing design and _x000D_
drafting products in order to address the specific needs of the modular building industry and a  cloud-based information sharing environment intended for direct collaboration among multiple  project stakeholders (e.g., consumers and building designers). Therefore, the aim of this research  is to develop cloud-based building information modelling (BIM) tools for collaborative editing and  sharing of a model by users of widely different skill sets, from consumer to panelized home  designer, estimator, and production manager. In order to achieve the proposed objective, three  activities will be conducted: (1) migration of the collaborating company's (Cadsoft Corporation's)  code base to a service-oriented architecture; (2) real-time collaborative model editing; and (3) automated manufacturing-centric BIM. It can be expected that through this project the industry partner can  benefit by redefining their current BIM software, and the building industry can improve its  productivity and efficiency of design and drafting, decision making, and production. The proposed  research will form a BIM system that is suitable to the modularization/panelization construction  industry, and which optimizes the material usage of projects and reduces carbon chemical emissions  incurred during construction. These combined efforts will increase the workforce in the housing  industry, will lead to wider adoption of Cadsoft's Envisioneer software by home builders, and will  create increased demand for skilled jobs in the manufactured housing and design markets._x000D_, agreement title english : Development of cloud-based collaborative BIM modelling software, agreement title french : Development of cloud-based collaborative BIM modelling software, agreement number : CRDPJ, agreement value : 200000.0, agreement start date : 2017-08-23, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2019-2020)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2019-2020)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada