OBAYASHI CORPORATION

OBAYASHI CORPORATION

Outline

Closely interconnects individual specialists using the high-speed communications network and multimedia, who are working in three remote places of the construction site, architecture production headquarters, and sales headquarters as the main divisions for promoting architecture production, as the first stage of the upcoming high-speed communications network society. The interconnection implements a virtual office environment as if the specialists were working at the same place. This experiment verifies concurrent engineering (collaboration) in the virtual office environment to check how it improves quality of architecture production and to what extent it contributes to reduction in task processing time.