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5 New Tools for Fully Integrated and Automated Facilities Management Processes
5 New Tools for Fully Integrated and Automated Facilities Management Processes
Pages 26-36
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Jackson Director, FIATECH Consortium The construction industry is being challenged to build and maintain facilities more rapidly, at less cost, that are sustainable, safer, more integrated, more performance driven, and more flexible. The industry needs both basic technology research with long-term horizons and applied research that helps deploy existing and emerging technologies more effectively and more imaginatively.
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will operate by forming, managing, and deploying complex, mult~-partner research, development, and deployment projects. It will have a full-time staff that will develop leveraged funding opportunities and manage the technical projects, including: seamless integration of information flow among all participants throughout entire project life cycle; application of the latest available proven technologies; computer-aided drawing and computer-aided engineering; advanced communications; · field sensing and tracking; · field automation; · construction automation; · breakthrough improvements in quality, schedule, and cost, resulting in improved return on investment; · pre-construction; and · modularization.
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FIATECH is considering development of cost-effective technologies for collecting, compiling, and maintaining field data for actual representations of buildings. These would include advanced sensing and scanning tools to collect the data, wireless technology for moving the data where they are needed, and visualization software for providing meaningful representations of the data and analysis software to ensure you get what you want.
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The stakeholders, in the effort to develop FIAPP, are all the key players in the construction industry: building owners and managers; building materials, equipment, and software providers and innovators; building contractors; and providers of support services. When FIAPP products and services are available commercially, construction industry stakeholders will benefit from reductions in first costs, reductions in delivery time, reductions in maintenance and repair costs, improvements in construction safety, and higher contractor profits.
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His Virtual Design Team research uses artificial intelligence techniques to analyze and design agile engineering enterprises.
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The fast-track schedule trickers unplanned coordination and rework for the project team, which must process a large amount of information under tight time constraints. What is happening on these fast-track projects is dependent on the skill and experience of the people doing the work and the structure of the organization how decentralized or how centralized it is.
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Second, other workers' time is wasted because they have to wait to get answers to questions. Third, it affects project quality because when you are five weeks backlogged you keep your head down and do your own work and you give less priority to answering questions and going to meetings, and doing coordination activities that affect the quality of other people's work.
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The information captured was used to develop simulation models (Models of Construction Activities) that can be used in the early design stages to evaluate design and construction alternatives, examine innovation opportunities, improve resource utilization, plan for constructability, and investigate cost/time tradeoffs.
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programs and CAD programs based on industry standards such as aecXML will only make the MOCA Build models easier to use, because it will potentially enable direct connection between CAD programs and the MOCA Build models. During the next year MOCA Systems will be commercializing a number of research models.
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Team members intervene as little as possible in the scenario planning. In one scenario PTO managers proposed using vacated space still under lease as interim space while new space was prepared, because of the savings that could be achieved.
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Using real managers subliminally introduces the more subtle and hard-to-define factors like corporate culture, turf issues, unspoken desires, and body language in a creative, manageable way. Chip moves are devised, negotiated, and agreed on by the "players" (the PTO managers)
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