The Role of Public Agencies in Fostering New Technology and Innovation in Building (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Review of Specific Agencies' Stance Toward Building Innovation
Appendix C: Review of Specific Agencies' Stance Toward Building Innovation
Pages 81-86
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Liaison representatives of agencies sponsoring the study presented to the committee the current concerns and interests of their agencies in matters of new technology in the building industries. Although the sample of agencies surveyed is necessarily limited, the concerns and interests raised are a representative cross section of issues regarding government's role in building innovation.
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Examples of new technology developed under the program include a mechanical device to assist tons in lifting heavy blocks, and computer programs to assist facilities designers and managers to perform life-cycle economic analyses of major building subsystems e The Army has several research facilities that support its missions and provide technology support to the construction sector. The CPAR program and other broad federal legislation have placed considerable emphasis on technology transfer, and the Army has capitalized on it via an aggressive Facilities Engineenog Application Program (FEAP)
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builds facilities for its own use, and also has active programs of research and technology transfer to foster energy conservation and shifts toward greater use of renewable resources throughout the building sector. The experience with these latter programs provides a number of examples of specific new technologies that have had varying levels of success in being adopted in practice, some of which have been described in Chapter 2.
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The state experiences persistent difficulty in recruiting, training, and retaining qualified people for operation and rnaitltenance of new technologies. These difficulties and the overall challenges of follow-through on action needed to ensure success in the adoption of new building technology make it difficult for professional staff, who might otherwise be inclined to try new technology, to justify such decisions to elected officials.
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Each request for design services specifies analysis models to be used in the evaluation of energy-saving technology options. The county finds Mat savings of 30 to 40 percent of fixture energy costs are achieved with minor increases In design expense—typically less than 0.5 percent of initially estimated total project cost—and no increase in construction cost.
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