Knowledge Sharing Strategies for Large Complex Building Projects

This volume of A+BE examines the current extent of knowledge sharing between
actors who form design teams of Large Complex Building Projects (LCBPs), the
problems that limited knowledge sharing causes in such projects. As part of
this analysis I compare deliberately designed and emerging project-specific
Knowledge Sharing Strategies (KSS). Based on this analysis, it proposes an
approach how to promote knowledge sharing in future LCBPs.

Understanding the current knowledge sharing processes employed by actors in
large complex building projects forms therefore the core of this study. Hence,
the dynamics that both hinder and promote actors’ knowledge sharing processes
within LCBPs are investigated. Before making this investigation, the natures
of LCBPs are elaborated since these projects are ‘the playgrounds’ of the
design team actors for knowledge sharing.

The study makes three contributions:

* an understanding of the nature of LCBPs (as the playground of actors) that serves as a basis for exploring potential barriers and current approaches towards knowledge sharing among design team actors;
* the formation of an analytical framework that synthesizes aspects for knowledge sharing strategies and investigates the current strategies that are targeted at building knowledge sharing between actors which has been undertaken in regard to the proposed framework of KSS;
* the practical implications that provide knowledge for practitioners so they can design and implement knowledge sharing strategies for LCBPs.