The International CONstruction Database - ICONDA, the database of the International Council for Building Research, Studies and Documentation (CIB), covers the international literature on all fields of building construction, civil and construction engineering, and architecture and town planning. The Information Centre for Regional Planning and Building Construction (IRB) of the Fraunhofer Society (Germany) acts as ICONDA-Agency and co-ordinates the international co-operation of several organisations, which are the information providers for ICONDA.

ITRD, formerly IRRD, the International Transport Research Documentation database, is one of the major activities of the OECD Road Transport and Intermodal Linkages Research (RTR) Programme. The database gathers all literature and information about ongoing research, on all aspects of road research, transport and traffic planning. It is a trilingual (English-French-German) database, although most references are in English.

PASCAL is a multidisciplinary and multilingual database covering the worldwide literature on science, technology and medicine. Each reference includes the article’s original, a translated English title, a French title and an abstract, mostly in English or French. Index terms are in English, French and in some cases Spanish and German. The database’s breakdown by language is approximately: English 76%, French 10%, Russian 6%, German 5% and other languages 1%.

RSWB (Raumordnung, Staedtebau, Wohnungswesen, Bauwesen) covers all fields of regional planning, town planning, housing, building construction and civil engineering. Documents published mainly in German speaking countries, but also in other European countries, the United States and Canada, are cited. Special emphasis is given to non-conventional literature and descriptions of research projects. References are in German. If a title is in a language other than German, both the original and the German title are available.

The ULIDAT (Umweltliteraturdatenbank) database covers the environmental problems of German-speaking countries. The database covers water, air, waste management, noise, and soil environmental research. The database language is German, however, some titles are also in English or other languages. An excerpt of the online database is available on CD-ROM via the Bundesdruckerei.

ICONDA include, journals, conference contributions, description of research projects, reports, other non-conventional literature.
ITRD sources include 850 journals from 40 countries are scanned, as well as books, reports, dissertations, patents, standards and specifications, conference proceedings and details of ongoing research projects.
PASCAL sources include 5,000 journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reports and theses (mainly French).
RSWB sources include journals, serials, books, conference proceedings, reports, descriptions of research projects and non-conventional literature.
ULIDAT sources include journals, serials, books, reports and other non-conventional literature.

The SUPER BUILDING cluster is available on the GEM Web site www.einsgem.org through the gateway to FIZ-Karlsruhe.

To access SUPER BUILDING with a Begin command in Command Search you can use the database number or database name, ie:
B 118
B SUPERBUILDING or B SBUILD

OUTPUT FORMATS

You may totally or partially display references using using the following formats:

Notes:
(1) The format MUST always be abbreviated, eg to display references 3-5 in scan format for set 4 type:
T 4/S/3-5
(2) Not all fields shown in the All format can be searched and expanded, some fields can only be displayed.

More detailed information on searching SUPER BUILDING, including a sample reference, access codes and limit options can be found on the SUPER BUILDING Infosheet. If you subscribe to GEM Documentation this is available free of charge. If you do not subscribe to GEM Documentation this is available at a cost, for which we will invoice you. For details of the costs please see your National Centre’s Price List.

See the SUPER BUILDING Infosheet for detailed information.

NB: You will be charged for this if you do not subscribe to GEM Documentation.

For further information on basic search commands, eg Expand, Select, Limit, Zoom, refer to your GEM Quick Reference Guide.

You can create multifile SDI Alerts in this cluster with automatic deduplication. Results are sent by email.

Document ordering is available.

For more detailed help refer to your National Centre.