Building Connections: The 1 st Congress on Digital Collaboration in the Building Industry

1. Building Connections:The 1st Congress on Digital Collaborationin the Building Industry AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community Friday, April 30, 2004 The American Institute of Architects, Washington DC Jim Bedrick, AIA Nancy Cheng, AIA Jonathan Cohen, FAIA Kristine Fallon, FAIA Steve Hagan, FAIA ©2004 Jonathan Cohen ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

2. Why are we here? • Gather leaders and organizations in one room across a broad spectrum of the building industry • Develop a coordinated standards strategy across the domains of design, construction, operations and real estate • Develop a Web-based clearinghouse of standards related projects and activities at http://building-connections.org • Seek to harmonize overlapping or competing efforts • Create a broader awareness of the value of interoperability and open standards for data exchange • Create a more cohesive “pie” of members, funding sources, and research initiatives focused on industry-wide issues • Showcase success stories – CIS/2 and PISCES standard ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

3. The four questions for today: • How do we create successful standards for information exchange throughout the AEC process? • How do we harmonize our efforts? • How do we present a coherent message to educate the stakeholders and create a demand for interoperability? • What are the next steps? ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

4. Interoperability: • The ability of software and hardware from multiple vendors to communicate seamlessly across diverse systems, platforms, applications and networks, using open, public standards for data exchange. ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

5. connecting the dots • Technology + process change • Problems in the building industry: • Poor communication • Unpredictable cost and time • Risk shifting • Enablers of process change: • Shared information model for the lifecycle of facilities • Data exchange between disciplines • New project delivery methods • Opportunity: A digital building enterprise ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

6. Design CAD Visualization Analysis Construction Scheduling Costing Staging Operations Facilities Management Real Estate islands of automation ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

7. contrast AEC with manufacturing • Process reform and product life-cycle management transformed manufacturing, shipbuilding, process plant industries • Results: • shorter product cycle time to market • more choice, less waste, lean process • mass customization • higher quality ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

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9. 3 enablers for process change • The shared building model supporting lifecycle project management • Data exchange with open standards • New project delivery methods based on sharing of information, risk, and reward ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

10. shared building model ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

11. shared building model • The project model is a Web-shared repository of information that grows as the project moves through design, construction and operations and throughout the building life cycle • Model all building attributes: • Geometry • Materials • Costs • Schedule • Energy use • Simulate construction process and all building systems ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

12. product life-cycle management ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

13. 3 enablers for process change • The shared building model supporting lifecycle project management • Data exchange with open standards • New project delivery methods based on sharing of information, risk, and reward ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

14. design/construction process: Production Phase Design Phase Programming Construction Occupancy Renovation Demolition Approvals Feasibility Permits Bidding OWNER DESIGNER CONTRACTOR USER ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

15. 3 enablers for process change • The shared building model supporting lifecycle project management • Data exchange with open standards • New project delivery methods based on sharing of information, risk, and reward ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

16. networked information enablesnew kinds of organizations • Project-wide knowledge widely shared and accessible • Information from one project informs the next • Support for geographically distributed work teams • Process is transparent to owner, designers, builders, suppliers, end users • Shared building information model is the hub of a networked digital enterprise ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

17. the MACE alliance ARUP a collaborative virtual organization MACE OWNER SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS AND MATERIAL SUPPLIERS LLEWELLYNDAVIES JOHN DOYLE CONSTRUCTION LTD. TROUP BYWATERS & ANDERS ©2004 Jonathan Cohen

18. The interoperability pledge: • We will respect the investment of our colleagues by actively finding ways to avoid duplication of efforts and by informing each other whenever new projects are initiated • We will require our technical working groups to interact with each other on related efforts • We will provide regular updates of our activities to be posted on http://building-standards.org • We will communicate in an open forum on an ongoing basis, including regular face-to-face meetings beginning with this Congress hosted by AIA Adapted from Object Management Group “Interop Pledge” http://www.omg.org/ ©2004 Jonathan Cohen