營建工程跨領域團隊合作所完成的建築設計作業，由於涉及不同領域的設計需維護與處理的設計參數並不完全相同，因此，本研究針對跨領域團隊之設計協同作業，提出跨領域團隊透過網路共同建立單一的多領域模型之協同合作模式，並整合使用物件導向、資料庫及網際網路等技術，開發建立出一套整合各領域設計資訊的建築設計系統，使得分隔異地不同領域的專業人員們可使用本系統連線組成虛擬的跨領域設計團隊，共同地於虛擬空間進行設計工作並即時地觀看所有連線成員工作的進展，並以資料庫對跨領域的設計資料做集中性的維護與管理。
本研究基於各領域設計之需求釐定出系統所建立之多領域模型所需具備的各種設計參數，將不同領域的設計資訊或參數整合為單一的多領域模型，而所建構或維護的多領域模型，是以物件導向技術模組化為構件，並賦予構件各領域之參數設定，即可組合而成為一多領域的模型，再配合資料庫技術對所建模型之資料做整體性的資料維護與管理，接著運用電腦繪圖的技術建置符合各領域需求之建模與模型顯示介面，並進一步整合網路技術，讓不同領域的設計團隊可透過網路於此平台上即時協同合作，實現跨領域團隊透過網路共同建立單一的多領域模型之協同合作模式。本研究考量到設計團隊之間角色彼此相互關係與分工的不同，故研究提出混合主從式架構與同儕式架構之網路式跨領域協同合作平台，並於此一混合式網路架構下研擬及規劃適當的網路傳輸架構與跨團隊權限控制規則，使得跨領域之設計團隊能透過網路連線共同合作完成跨領域模型以達成設計上之整合，以及提昇跨領域團隊協同設計之效率。

This research proposes an operation model for inter-disciplinary design collaboration in construction engineering. The proposed model is to have geographical distributed design teams concurrently build a single shared multi-disciplinary model together over the Internet using distributed system to achieve design integration and conflict resolving. A synchronous collaborative design platform for inter-disciplinary collaboration was developed in this research. By using the proposed platform, the geographical distributed members of various design teams can be connected together via the Internet as an inter-disciplinary design team to work together in a same virtual design space to view the progress of each other’s work in real-time and cooperate with each other instantly. In addition, all the design data is centrally maintained in a database to provide secure and systematic data management. Based on the analysis of inter-disciplinary design scenario, the proposed system provides virtual real-world design components with multi-disciplinary design attributes for building a multi-disciplinary design model. Further considering the characteristics of and the relationships between design disciplines are different, a hybrid client-server and peer-to-peer network model and an inter-disciplinary access rule is proposed to form the working model of the proposed distributed design system.

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