• Community building, an important element in collaboration
• Establishing a presence on the web
• Doing business on the web via electronic commerce
• Finding suppliers of goods and services, as well as product information.

COMMUNITY BUILDING

	AEC InfoCenter is a Business Center dedicated to the Architectural, Engineering, Construction and Home Building industries. This website provides information on building product libraries, AEC support services, feature articles, interactive product forums and industry specifications.
	AECNET offers high speed Internet access, instant web sites, and wide area enterprise networks specifically designed for the commercial construction industry.
	Build America Radio is a radio news magazine offering the latest tips and tools from the AEC trades, a look at resourceful building materials and methods to create a "sustainable built environment". "cutting edge" concepts for design and planning, and reviews of America's most significant building projects.

ESTABLISHING A PRESENCE ON THE WEB

BuildingOnline is a web site creation and marketing agency for the building products industries. Its goal is to help clients use the Internet to increase their sales leads.

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

	Enterprise Integration Technologies develops and markets software products and services that enable e-commerce on the Internet. EIT's clients use the Internet to sell products and services, integrate internal and virtual operations, and interact with customers, suppliers, and partners throughout the world.
	Industry.Net brings together a large community of buyers and sellers in an interactive environment where business is done faster and more easily. It offers its "buying members" free access to a wide variety of information they need to make their day-to-day buying decisions. And it offers its "selling clients" the opportunity to market their products to these buying members.
	Open Market develops high-performance software products that allow their customers to engage in business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce on the Internet.

ONLINE MARKETPLACE: PRODUCT/SERVICE DIRECTORIES

	The Blue Book publishes regional construction directories in most of the major geographic regions of the United States.
	Builder Net is an interactive catalog of building products for architects, engineers,and contractors.
	Build*Net provides links to national building industry web pages
	Build.Com is an online resource and directory for building and home improvement products and information.
	Contractors Hotline provides pointers to equipment currently on the market as well as those that have been auctioned in the last year, price guides, reference materials, and State DOT Bids & Lettings
	RS Means provides construction cost information on products and services, with links to construction cost estimating and management resources.