Method

We believe that during the development of V&S systems it is important to simultaneously account for technological and organizational factors. Sound V&S system development that meet this requirement requires a close and ongoing collaboration between academics and practitioners. VISICO research focuses on fostering such collaboration activities by establishing a center where practitioners and academics can meet to develop new or improve existing V&S systems by

-	Identifying existing practical problems by observing how construction practitioners organize work and how they try to use existing V&S systems to do so,

-	Develop new V&S systems with accompanying work processes or work processes around existing systems in close collaborations with the observed practitioners that can overcome the identified problems, and

-	Implement these newly developed V&S systems and processes in practice to measure and improve the systems' and work processes and, in this way, move existing practice forward.

The following figure (adjusted from Hartmann et al. 2009) illustrates our methodological approach:

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