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The Use of Computers in Facilities/Installations Planning: Summary of a Symposium (1994)
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THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING: (Summary of a Symposium) http://books.nap.edu/openbook/nap.css

Technical Report

No. 125

THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING

(Summary of a Symposium)

Federal Construction Council

Consulting Committee on Comprehensive Planning and

Task Group on The Use of Computer Graphics in Planning

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1994

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THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING: (Summary of a Symposium) http://books.nap.edu/openbook/nap.css Technical Report No. 125 THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING (Summary of a Symposium) Federal Construction Council Consulting Committee on Comprehensive Planning and Task Group on The Use of Computer Graphics in Planning NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1994

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THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING: (Summary of a Symposium) http://books.nap.edu/openbook/nap.css NOTICE The Federal Construction Council (FCC) is a continuing activity of the Building Research Board of the National Research Council (NRC). The purpose of the FCC is to promote continuing cooperation among the sponsoring federal agencies and between the agencies and other elements of the building community in order to advance building science and technology--particularly with regard to the design, construction, and operation of federal facilities. Currently, 18 agencies sponsor the FCC: Department of the Air Force, Office of the Civil Engineer Department of the Air Force, Air National Guard Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Department of the Army, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation Department of Energy, Office of Project and Facilities Management Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Department of State, Office of Foreign Buildings Operations Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Construction Management General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Facilities Engineering Office National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building and Fire Research Laboratory National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Program National Science Foundation, Structural Systems and Construction Processes Program Smithsonian Institution, Office of Facilities Service U.S. Information Agency, Voice of America U.S. Public Health Service, Office of Management U.S. Postal Service, Facilities. As part of its activities, the FCC periodically publishes reports like this one that have been prepared by committees of government employees. Since these committees are not appointed by the NRC, they do not make recommendations, and their reports are not reviewed and approved in accordance with usual NRC procedures. Consequently, the reports are considered FCC publications rather than NRC publications. For further information on the FCC program or FCC reports, please write to: Executive Secretary, Federal Construction Council, Building Research Board, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20418.

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THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING: (Summary of a Symposium) http://books.nap.edu/openbook/nap.css PREFACE For many years a symbiotic relationship has existed between planners and computers. As the speed and data-storage capacity of computers have increased and new features and programs have been developed, planners usually have been among the first to make use of the added capabilities. This is because planning--by its nature--has an open-ended need for information; no matter how much data planners have and how many analyses they make, they can always use more. Consequently, planners--and particularly installations planners--frequently have been in the vanguard of those pushing the development of computer technology. The computer industry has responded by producing a dazzling array of hardware and software for installation planners. New computer graphics systems and geographic information systems (GIS) are especially impressive. However, while the new systems are more user friendly and have far more capabilities per dollar than old systems, they are still neither cheap nor easy to learn to use. This has prompted many federal agencies to hesitate to invest in the new systems. Agencies have questioned, for example, whether they really need the added capabilities of the new systems, whether in these times of tight budgets the investment in new planning tools can be justified, and whether it might be wise to delay making a purchase until the next generation of systems comes out. A Federal Construction Council (FCC) symposium was held in March 1993 at the National Academy of Sciences, to help federal agencies decide whether they should invest in modern computer systems to assist in their installations planning activities and, if so, what type of system to purchase. The symposium was organized jointly by two Federal Construction Council committees (the FCC Consulting Committee on Comprehensive Planning and the FCC Task Group on The Use of Computer Graphics in Planning). This report comprises summaries of papers presented at the symposium. The summaries were prepared by the speakers, and the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the FCC. However, the papers are believed to be relevant and timely and to contain information that will be useful to the sponsoring federal agencies.

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THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING: (Summary of a Symposium) http://books.nap.edu/openbook/nap.css FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL CONSULTING COMMITEE ON COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING Chairman Juanita Mildenberg, Facilities Engineering Branch, National Institutes of Health Members Ed Bakunas, Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, Department of the Air Force Anthony Costa, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration John Deponai, U.S. Army, Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Ray Detig, Readiness Center, Air National Guard Tariq Farooqi, Refurbishments Division, Voice of America Edward Feiner, Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration Thomas Grooms, Federal Design Improvement Program, National Endowment for the Arts Kenneth R. Harper, Office of Engineering Service, Public Health Service Joseph Hassenfeldt, Facilities Management Division, Department of Energy William Hoffman, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Public Health Service Emil Kish, Office of Foreign Buildings, Department of State William G. Miner, Office of Foreign Buildings, Department of State James McCord, Facility Development Planning Office, Department of Veterans Affairs Don Pledger, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy Richard Schneider, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Gordon Velasco, Architecture and Planning Branch,U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Edward Wandelt, Facilities Program Support Division, U.S. Postal Service Robert C. Wilson, Facilities Branch, Voice of America George Williams, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health Jerry Zekert, U.S. Army Engineering and Housing Support Center, Department of the Army

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THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN FACILITIES/INSTALLATIONS PLANNING: (Summary of a Symposium) http://books.nap.edu/openbook/nap.css FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL TASK GROUP ON THE USE OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN PLANNING Chairman James Carberry, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy Members William Aley, Facility Systems Division, US. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories Philip Clark, Office of the Civil Engineer, Department of the Air Force Steve Coppedge, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy Fred Drummond, Office of Project and Facilities Management, Department of Energy Paul Fardig, Engineering Support Services Branch, U.S. Public Health Service Stewart Grayson, U.S. Army Engineering and Housing Support Center, Department of the Army Emil Kish, Office of Foreign Buildings Operations, Department of State Al Lew, Facilities Engineering Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kent Reed, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology Staff Henry A. Borger, Executive Secretary, Federal Construction Council Lena B. Grayson, Senior Secretary