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Appendix E Additional Comments and Observations of Workshop Participants
Appendix E Additional Comments and Observations of Workshop Participants
Pages 90-98
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Undertaking this research in academic institutions leverages PATH funding and provides educational opportunities that further PATH goals. · PATH has a better opportunity to achieve its mission by combining the forces of technology push and demand pull.
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· Designers support development and implementation of systems that will facilitate electronic submittal of construction documents and their automated review and approval as a means of reducing the time for regulatory approval and increasing uniformity and reliability. · There are limited housing technology research sources, and PATH is one of those sources and should continue to partner with industry to address research on building technology.
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3. There was widespread agreement among workshop attendees that the current, revised PATH goals -- removing barriers and facilitating technology development and adoption, improving technology transfer, development, and adoption through information dissemination, and advancing housing technologies research and fostering development of new technology -- are appropriate and demonstrate that the PATH staff at HUD understood the NRC's criticism and effectively implemented its recommendations.
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C) Jorge Vanegas led the third group's discussions on the subject of advancing housing technologies research and fostering development of new technology.
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e. A fifth solution was to follow the "money trail" and eliminate work items that would not result in cost reduction and profit enhancement for the housing industry.
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But the "affordable housing" market is hard-pressed for technological innovation and cost reduction. The answer for some was to strive for "attainable" housing, meaning making incremental innovations in the product and in the process of housing production provided that the cost of the product and speed of the process represent improvements over what exists now.
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Douglas Thomas National Institute of Standards and Technology The PATH goals outlined in PATH Program Review and Strategy, Performance Metrics, and Operating Plan are good principles that create an ideal sense of direction. All of the issues that are addressed in the draft are pertinent to increasing innovation in the residential construction industry.
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In many respects, the residential construction industry today is similar to the agricultural industry of the early 20th century. Both industries have a slow rate of technology diffusion, have a preponderance of small firms, have workers with poor skills and training, are subject to high risk, are geographically dependent, and use sales representatives as their primary source of information.
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