Information theory and building construction : entropy and constructability

Building design and construction can be viewed as communication processes among the client, the architect and the construction engineer.  The architect conceives the building design and encodes that design into construction documents, which can be seen as an information source that sends messages to the construction engineer as he/she is reading through the documents. The engineer decode the received messages and uncovers as much uncertainty as possible over what the architect has conceived of. Then the engineer set forward to encode the design into a building, which would be the information source that generates messages for the client, as he/she examines and uses the building to find out if the constructed is indeed the building that he/she has requested for in the prior communication process with the architect.

Constructability is the indication over the achievable efficiency of cost, schedule and quality when the best possible strategies and methods are used in construction. The entropy of the building design, which serves as the information source that generates messages to the engineer, would be a good indication over the difficulty that the engineer may encounter in decoding, and the likelihood that the engineer may fail to revise correctly what the architect has encoded into the construction documents. Furthermore,  in the communication process between the engineer and the client, the engineer needs to encode the building design into a building, which, in the perspective of a communication system, is composed of messages to the client, when he/she sees, touches and even smells from everywhere, inside and outside of the building. Therefore, the entropy of the building can be also a good indication to the difficulty of the decoding process that is to be carried out by the engineer.

I think the main point is to see the whole or any part of the physical world as information sources.It is undeniable that as one is perceiving the world, there is nothing but signals entering one's sensory systems. Perception is indeed a continuous communication process as long as one is still alive.