The management of curtain wall parts and material is very important for the following reasons. Firstly, curtain wall work is one of the main works in high-rise building construction for it takes up about 10 to 15% of the total construction cost.

Secondly, the whole process of curtain wall work including manufacture, delivery, storage, installation and maintenance is very complicated and sometimes more than 30 companies may be involved in the process. Thus, there are many control points for curtain wall units.

Thirdly, there is not enough space on site for material storage and this situation is more serious for sites in urban areas.

The purpose of this research is to validate an information system using RFID technology that is developed to manage the curtain wall units following the process of curtain wall work.

For the validation, the cycle times of curtain wall work before and after the system was used. The results show that using the systems can shorten the cycle time of the curtain wall work. Thus it is concluded that the system can increase the efficiency of managing this type of work.

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