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6 Discussion of PATH Goal I--Remove Barriers and Facilitate Technology Development and Adoption
6 Discussion of PATH Goal I--Remove Barriers and Facilitate Technology Development and Adoption
Pages 23-30
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We are also joined by David Conover, who is senior advisor for the International Code Council. Our nation's building codes and regulations are generally perceived, not necessarily correctly, as a major barrier to housing innovation.
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After listing the barriers the draft 2005 PATH report goes on to disqualify most of the commonly identified barriers, such as the cyclical nature of construction, the dominance of small firms, the lack of integration of the industry, heavy reliance on subcontractors, and diverse building codes, as having no empirical support or being beyond evaluation. The draft strategy identifies seven barriers that "...
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Even though there is no set list of supply chain participants, I would say that they are not adequately represented at this workshop. For example, we mentioned Home Depot as a supply chain element for consumers, but it is not a principal supply chain participant for production builders.
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The program included development of performance-based procurement of building systems to help improve educational programs. They found that if they issued requests for proposals for 30 school buildings at one time, they increased their ability to require the builders to meet certain performance criteria, which naturally led to a number of innovations.
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One of the most effective tools for overcoming or removing barriers innovation in the homebuilding industry could be the new program called Concept Home that PATH is working on with its industry partners. I address this question to Mr.
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As discussed earlier, there is a morass of different code enforcement bodies throughout the nation with building inspectors whose personal decisions affect the adoption of innovative technologies. It is the right place to be, but somewhere in this process we need to determine how to reach out to communities and to people who are not directly involved in the housing industry, but have a tremendous influence.
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But PATH continues to face federal budgetary restrictions and uncertainties. In 2001, the administration started zeroing out PATH's budget and refused to let PATH distribute its literature.
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Rittel identified a class of "tame" problems, susceptible to rational analysis and satisfactory solution through traditional linear processes, and an altogether different class of problemscharacterized by systems and processes that are richly interrelated with a number of factors, with a host of stakeholders with conflicting views, that are burdened with a number of externalities and interconnected with so many other parallel systems that they become very, very difficult to solveknown as "wicked problems." I think that the barriers issue we have before us in this segment of today's workshop is in fact a "wicked problem," one that cannot be solved like a tame problem reasonably might be, but one that PATH in its time will address and in the process help move innovation in the homebuilding industry forward.
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