Federal Policies to Foster Innovation and Improvement in Constructed Facilities Summary of a Symposium (1996) / Chapter Skim
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U.S. EXPERIENCE WITH INNOVATIVE POLICY
U.S. EXPERIENCE WITH INNOVATIVE POLICY
Pages 79-112
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Wright National Institute of Standards and Technology Opening Remarks Today, as we are speaking about policies that will support innovation, I wanted to bring to your attention the views of the National Science and Technology Council, chaired by the President. Its Committee on Civilian Industrial Technology has as its purpose to focus and coordinate federal research and development (R&D)
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He started his career with the DuPont Company in 1973 as an engineer in the Engineering-Construction organization at the Edge Moor Plant in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1977, he was transferred to Rochester, New York, as a project engineer in the Photoproducts Division.
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We're moving philosophically from continuous improvement to the next level, which is to step change. DuPont has been a very paternalistic organization.
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Figure 1 shows significant shifts we have made. In 1973, when I was hired, I was proud that the organization that I was part of · FROM ~TO · Hierarchical ~Matrix/Leveraged · Many layers of management · Flat organization · Cautious, conservative · Entrepreneurial · Not invented here · Steal with pride · Continuous improvement ~Step change · Paternalistic ~Value added assessment · Diversified Portfolio ~Core businesses 1983 1993 1994 Sales (USD)
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We're linked with the Construction Industry Institute and academia. I have a vision for construction technology transfer.
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This process will yield certain products. We're looking for leading edge breakthrough construction technologies.
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We're really pushing craft ergonomics training at that level, and what we're seeing is a major reduction in soft tissue injuries right now. We have identified another construction technology with a partner, Brown & Root out of Houston, where we're doing some computer-aided rigging.
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In collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, Dr. Hartkopf has been actively researching and designing highperformance office environments, improved building components, systems, and systems integration.
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Through a series of international studies, our research group has concluded that the creation of intelligent workplaces hinges on three principles: (1) the design must encompass six critical performance qualities, (2)
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The Intelligent Workplace, a 7,000-sq-ft addition to the rooftop of an existing Carnegie Mellon building, will allow the study of building performance and systems integration in the advanced workplace (Figure 11. This project, scheduled for completion in spring of 1996, is being sponsored by the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium (ABSIC)
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The interior design of the IW will demonstrate and evaluate advances in interior components and assemblies, as well as their effective integration with base building systems. The Intelligent Workplace will demonstrate the concept of an "intelligent neighborhood, a 30- to 50-person work group, contained in no more than 10,000 sq ft.
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A Service pub," or a hooded and well ventilated area, will centralize equipment such as copiers, printers, and facsimile machines, removing the volatile organic compounds that these machines introduce into the workspace. Equally critical as an example of an intelligent neighborhood, the IW will reflect changing values towards the environment-providing individual access to view, light, and fresh air while minimizing resource-intensive and pollutantgenerating building components and systems.
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Another recent structural innovation although we will not tee demonstrating it in the IW ~ the very near future-is in fire protection methods. Greschback Iddustries, a corresponding partner in our consortium, has developed a method of using tubular steel trusses filled with a sodium silicate liquid solution that, under fire condition, will absorb heat and undergo a phase change to gas.
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mixing boxes with fans to enable individual control of temperature, air speed and direction, as well as fresh air supply. The use of two systems is intended to compare the assessments made both by the occupants and by physical measurements of localized thermal quality, air quality, and energy costs in both air- and water-based systems.
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At the workstation end of these tethered data, voice and power cables, the latest modular multifunction floor boxes allow a wide range of desktop equipment, telephones, and environmental controllers to be easily connected by the individual user and monitored for energy use and peak load management. Conclusion The Idtelligent Workplace is a long-term demonstration, research, and teaching environment.
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As a teethed of new ideas and a demonstration center for successfi~1 innovations combined with innovative officing concepts and portable diagnostics, the IW will be a unique living laboratory of office environments. With the construction of the Intelligent Workplace scheduled for completion in the spring of 1996 and the recommended federal and corporate partnerships already in place, we are now positioned to realize the national goals identified by the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Construction and Building six years earlier than anticipated.
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Mr. Rand received the certificate of outstanding performance in 1992, 1993, and 1994 and the Meritorious Honor Award for outstanding leadership and professional competence in 1995.
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These facilities are necessary for the United States government to carry out diplomatic relations and to, meet its foreign policy objectives. In one respect, FBO can be considered a real estate development company that employs engineers, architects, interior designers, computer and communication specialists, real estate specialists, attorneys and administrative support personnel.
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The total project budget was approximately $7 million and included the design and construction of all facilities, site infrastructure development, the furniture and furnishings, security equipment, telephone equipment, building equipment, project supervision, and other miscellaneous project costs. In comparison to conventional construction methods, FBO saved time and money.
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Once the factory fabrication process is complete, the transportation of the modules occurs. For the Bissau project, the modules were trucked from Avenel, New Jersey, to Port Elizabeth, where they were loaded onto a ship bound directly for the port of Bissau.
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Due to the success of the Bissau and Ashgabat projects, another modular office building project is planned for another newly independent country in the fanner Soviet Union.
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Dr. Tucker is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, American Society of Civil Engineers, National Society of Professional Engineers, and the American Society for Testing and Materials.
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Tucker Construction Industry Institute The Construction Industry Institute (CII) is probably the most innovative organization in our industry, in that it has combined owners with providers with academics to take advantage of the synergism of having all three groups involved.
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CII set some goals in 1990 which are consistent with the strategic goals established by the National Science and Technology Council. CII said in a 10year period that we wanted to lower the real cost of projects by 20 percent, 104
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Areas where we have identified the potential for improvement fall into about five categories-better project planning, standardization as much as possible, better communications, better technology utilization and better worker utilization. The curve shown on Figure 3 is known as the Cost Influence (CI)
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Construction | Start-Up | Start Time ~ Complete FIGURE 3 Potential savings are higher earlier in construction 106
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The Corps has a set of data for about 30 10-million-dollar projects comparing partnered projects with traditional projects. Specifically, the data compare increases between the original estimated costs and final project costs broken down by overall construction cost and cost increases due to schedule over-runs, the cost incurred from work change orders, and the cost of disputed claims from contractors for extra work.
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These are Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) -reportable accidents and show the national Recordable Incident Rates National Construction Average and CII Companies Average 16 ......
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In 1989, the recordable incident rates for CII companies were about half the national average; in 1993, the recordable incident rates were about one fourth the national average. The ratio for lost workday cases is even more impressive.
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We have found that all of our many products average about 3 percent cost savings when implemented, but implementation is a challenge. The construction industry is a fragmented culture based on experience.
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Therefore we are putting more attention on trying to get these products, which are the result of a significant amount of quantitative feedback, implemented. We are trying to do some of that through education.
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in civil engineering with distinction from the University of Minnesota.
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