ENHANCING ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS, PUBLIC SAFETY

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ENHANCING ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS, PUBLIC SAFETY
DISASTER RESILIENCE THROUGH STREAMLINING AND
EFFECTIVE USES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• Presentation by Robert Wible, Secretary to the
  National Partnership to Streamline Government
• Building Regulatory Process Coalition Meeting
• Quincy, MA November 28, 2006

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ENHANCING COMPETITIVENSS, PUBLIC SAFETY
DISASTER RESILIENCE

• OUTLINE
• Shared needs for greater efficiency caused by
  major forces impacting both construction and
  building regulatory community
• Partnership initiatives addressing those forces
• Possible actions to assist Massachusetts

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COMPETITIVENSS, PUBLIC SAFETY DISASTER
RESILIENCE

• PERSPECTIVE FROM THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP TO
  STREAMLINE GOVERNMENT / ALLIANCE FOR BUILDING
  REGULATORY REFORM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
• Public/Private Partnership of Associations
  Government Agencies established July, 2001
• NGA, NACo, Mayors, NASCIO, Federal Agencies HUD,
  DOE, NIST, GSA, NSF
• AIA, NAHB, AGC, BOMA, APA, ULI .
• Share best practices to enhance public safety,
  competitiveness by increasing effectiveness and
  efficiency of government oversight of
  construction process through streamlining and use
  of I.T.

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COMPETITIVENSS, PUBLIC SAFETY DISASTER
RESILIENCE

• National Partnership/Alliance Mission
• Enhance nations public safety, disaster
  resilience and economic competitiveness through
  streamlining the nations regulatory process to
  make it more effective and efficient.
• Making state and local government regulations
  more effective and efficient not regulatory
  abandonment

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Six Forces Transforming Both The Construction
  Industry And Way State And Local Governments
  Regulate
• Drawn from Architectural Security Codes and
  Guidelines new McGraw-Hill publication

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• SIX TRANSFORMING FORCES
• Demographic aging population immigration
• Environmental energy costs, resource depletion
  global warming
• Technological rapid changes new technologies
• Economic changing role of nation in global
  economy
• Reduced Resources demands for downsizing and
  increased efficiency in government private
  sectors
• Public Safety - greater demand, natural disasters
  and terrorism

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• A BRIEF LOOK AT FOUR OF THOSE FORCES
• Environmental
• Technological
• Economic
• Public Safety

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Environmental
• Global Warming
• Need to reduce greenhouse gases /support green
  technologies and construction sustainability
• World supply of oil and natural gas
• Replace with alternative fuels and increase
  energy efficiency
• Water and other resource conservation
• Waste disposal

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Technological
• Increased pressure on speed to market of new
  technologies e.g.- nanotechnologies /
  biomedical-mechanical
• Continuing rapid change in information
  technologies demand for interoperability BIM,
  SMARTcodes ICC
• Aging infrastructure roads, rails, bridges

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Economic
• Global economy
• The World Is Flat T. Friedman
• Jobs and skills going off-shore
• Growing economic competitiveness
• region as well as within world
• Attract new and keep existing businesses in
  state/community
• build at less cost/waste faster, better,
  safer
• Ability to absorb and recover from disruptions

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Public Safety - Greater demand after 9/11 and
  Katrina for
• Keeping our infrastructure secure from future
  terrorist actions
• Better preparation for, response to and more
  rapid recovery from large scale disasters.

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Lessons from Katrina Other Disasters
• - Need for uniform statewide building codes,
  certification training for code officials
• - Need for upgraded code provisions for wind
  and water penetration
• - Need for regional and not just statewide
  mutual aid agreements for building
  departments/contractors as well as first
  responders
• - Need for backup statewide permit plans
  review

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Blue Cascades III Exercise in Pacific NW (3/06)
• - Secure database for first responders of as
  built designs
• Identify and pre-certify construction industry
  from outside region to support first responses
• Recovery - use of information technology speed
  damage assessment and permit issuance
• Uniform building permit forms statewide, common
  inspection systems to provide backup support

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• Relevance to Commonwealth
• - Year 5 of 15-20 year more intense hurricane
  cycle
• - Winter storms
• - Potential terrorist targets
• - Smaller geographical area from which to draw
  resources in large scale event
• - 80 of all small businesses fail if closed
  for 3 weeks

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STREAMLINING THE NEED

• For Past 10 Years These Forces Have
• increasingly impacted how we build and regulate
  construction
• stimulated new products technologies
• added national initiatives to identify and reduce
  unnecessary costs and inefficiencies

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS NATIONAL INITIATIVES

• NEW INITIATIVES
• Greater Code Uniformity
• ICC
• Research on more effective and efficient building
  design construction materials, processes
  technologies
• NIST /GSA /Colleges Universities
• New Information Technologies and Interoperability
• 3D 4 D design
• GIS
• Wireless Technologies
• RFID
• Web-based services

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS NATIONAL INITIATIVES

• INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS THESE FORCES
• New Organizations/Initiatives to Promote More
  Effective and Efficient Construction, Building
  Operation Regulation
• - U.S. Green Building Council
• - FIATECH
• IAI
• PATH
• buildingSMART
• Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in
  Digital Age / National Partnership to Streamline
  Government

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS CONVERGENCE OF INITIATIVES

• THE NEED FOR CONVERGING EFFORTS
• Each of these initiatives and organizations
  generally address one or more but not every
  segment of
• construction industry
• construction process
• technology
• level of government
• or even different governments within same state /
  region

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS CONVERGENCE OF INITIATIVES

• RESULTING IN
• a general lack of cohesive approach that
  recognizes, supports, encourages coordination and
  where appropriate integration of these
  initiatives.
• CASE IN POINT - BIM REGULATORY SYSTEM

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS CONVERGENCE OF INITIATIVES

• As Virtual Design Construction, and
  greater demand for disaster resilience increase
  they meet a regulatory system where
• Less than 10 of building departments use IT
• Less than 1 building departments accept
  electronic plans submittals
• Even smaller number of jurisdictions conduct
  electronic plans reviews even then for only
  certain portions of buildings

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS CONVERGENCE OF INITIATIVES

• CREATING CHOKEPOINTS IN THE ROAD TO THE FUTURE
  The Building Regulatory Process
• At Virtual Design Conference, December, 2005 at
  GSA
• 3D/4D project in Silicon Valley had to print out
  and provide shop drawings for project
• Currently no interoperability in building
  department data between jurisdictions between
  jurisdictions and construction slowing disaster
  response and recovery

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COORDINATING ACTIONS TO LINK INITIATIVES

• PROPOSED COORDINATED ACTIONS NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
  AND MASS BRP COALITION
• Coordinate Coalition objectives for needed
  changes/streamlining of building regulatory
  process with Partnership products/services
• Joint educational efforts for actions that can be
  taken now to build stakeholder support for
  streamlining building regulatory process
  greater use of IT
• Joint support for streamlining grants to state
  and local governments for other initiatives
  BIM, buildingSMART, SMARTcodes

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COORDINATING ACTIONS TO LINK INITIATIVES

• NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTS OF RELEVANCE TO MA
  BUILDING REGULATORY PROCESS COALITION
• Model procurement requirements How to procure
• Listing of software and jurisdictions using
  Learn from the lessons of others
• Surveys
• Use of IT Cost/Benefit
• ROI Reports to support funding
• 3 ½ month ROI for jurisdictions of all size

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP PRODUCTS
• 2006 CD-ROM Report to Governors, Mayors, Counties
  with all streamlining tools that have reduced
  regulatory costs by 60
• DOE/PNNL interoperability for RESCheck COMCheck
  tools
• Template for Introduction to Building Codes
  A State specific publication - to build
  stakeholder support for change

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• Guides
• - Elected Officials 8 pages Why Streamline?
  Benefits
• - HUD 83 page Streamlining Guide (Nov 06)
  Includes chapter on benefits of I.T./Streamlining
  to disaster response and recovery

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT BUILDING
  REGULATORY PROCESSES THROUGH STREAMLINING AND
  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COVERS
• Why and what is streamlining? Not regulatory
  abandonment
• Benefits of streamlining and using I.T. Better
  service to customers, reduced regulatory costs,
  enhanced and more effective enforcement
• Step by Step Process 5 Steps

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS TO JURISDICTIONS OF ALL
  SIZES - STREAMLINING I.T.
• - Savings to construction industry in costs
  of up to 100,000/day in delays keeps business
  in town
• - Reduce time in reg process by 60
• - Handle increased workloads with same staff
• - Provides jurisdiction with mechanism to
  share data across multiple agencies increasing
  effectiveness efficiency of government services

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• GUIDE 5 STEPS TO STREAMLINING
• - 1. Assessing the Need Identifying
  Stakeholders in your community Educating
  gaining their buy-in
• - 2. Identifying Resources
• - 3. Preparing building regulatory process for
  change- Process re-engineering / working with
  sister agencies

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• GUIDE 5 STEPS TO STREAMLINING (continued)
• - 4. Hardware and software selection
• - 5. Putting it all in place actions to
  accomplish
• EXAMPLES OF SAVINGS/EFFICIENCIES/BEST PRACTICES
  FROM JURISDICTIONS INCLUDING Los Angeles, CA
• Chicago, IL Fairfax County, VA Polk Co, FL
  Milpitas, CA
• State of Oregon State of Florida

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS OF RELEVANCE TO
  MASSACHUSETTS
• High level National Streamlining Conference
  January 10-11, 2007 at NAHB in Washington, D.C.
• Program for corporate CEOs, construction
  community, elected building officials, to set
  path for focused 5 year campaign to enhance
  effectiveness and efficiency of building
  regulatory process through streamlining and use
  of information technology.

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• Partnership Projects of Relevance to
  Massachusetts
• - Assisting states their localities
  by conducting streamlining workshops OR, CA, LA
• - Assisting states prior to disaster in
  identifying and streamlining reducing rules,
  regs., processes and procedures to speed response
  and recovery
• - Assisting in building regulatory process
  re-engineering
• - Assisting in interoperability of disaster
  response/recovery databases

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COORDINATING ACTIONS - PARTNERSHIP
MASSACHUSETTS

• How can National Partnership be of assistance ?
• - Develop stakeholder materials
  Introduction to Mass Building Regulatory System
  Benefits of Streamlining
• - Guide/Streamlining training
• - Disaster resilience identify rules,
  regulations, processes procedures (state
  local) that impede disaster response/recovery

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PROPOSED COORDINATION - MASS NATIONAL
PARTNERSHIP

• THANK YOU FOR OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THESE THOUGHTS
• Available here to answer questions
• provide more information on National
• Partnership/Alliance

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PROPOSED COORDINATION NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND
MASS BUILDING REGULATORY PROCESS COALITION

• A CLOSING THOUGHT
• The best way to predict the future is to design
  it
• -
  Buckminster Fuller
• This is precisely what the Coalition the
  National Partnership are trying to do lets do
  it together!

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

• VISIT THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP WEBSITE
  www.natlpartnerstreamline.org
• Write or Call rcwible_at_comcast.net,
  703-568-2323
• Read articles in U.S. Mayor, State Government
  News Architectural Security Codes
  Guidelines McGraw-Hill
• THANK YOU