CONNECTING%20SYSTEMS%20-%20BUILDING%20REGULATORY%20AND%20FACILITY%20INFORMATION%20SYSTEMS

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS - BUILDING REGULATORY AND
FACILITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Presentation by Robert Wible, Secretary to the
  Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in the
  Digital Age
• FIATECH ANNUAL MEETING
• Denver, CO November 8, 2006

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED, CONVERGENCE,
ACTIONS

• OUTLINE
• Shared needs for greater efficiency caused by
  major forces impacting both construction and
  building regulatory community
• Converging initiatives addressing those forces
• Possible coordinated actions to link systems

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

• Perspective from the Alliance for Building
  Regulatory Reform in Digital Age / National
  Partnership
• Public/Private Partnership of Associations
  Government Agencies
• NGA, NACo, Mayors, NASCIO, Federal Agencies HUD,
  DOE, NIST, GSA, NSF
• FIATECH, AIA, NAHB,AGA,BOMA, .
• 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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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

• Alliance / National Partnership Mission
• Enhance nations public safety, disaster
  resilience and economic competitiveness through
  streamlining the nations regulatory process to
  make it more effective and efficient.

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

• Six Forces Transforming Both The Construction
  Industry And Way State And Local Governments
  Regulate

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS 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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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

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

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

• Environmental
• Global Warming
• Need to reduce greenhouse gases
• 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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CONNECTING SYSTEMS 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
• Aging infrastructure roads, rails, bridges

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS 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
• Ability to absorb and recover from disruptions

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

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

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CONNECTING SYSTEMS THE NEED

• For Past 10-15 Years 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
• FIATECH
• IAI
• U.S. Green Building Council
• 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

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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, FIATECHs
  Capital Projects Technology Road Map move forward
  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
• 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 BETWEEN ALLIANCE AND
  FIATECH
• Joint effort to coordinate FIATECH Road Map
  Projects with needed changes/streamlining of
  building regulatory process.
• Joint educational efforts for actions that can be
  taken now to support streamlining building
  regulatory process to make greater use of IT
• Joint support for streamlining grants to state
  and local governments
• Joint support for other initiatives BIM,
  buildingSMART

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COORDINATING ACTIONS TO LINK INITIATIVES

• ALLIANCE PROJECTS OF RELEVANCE TO FIATECH
• 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 TO LINK INITIATIVES

• ALLIANCE PROJECTS
• 2006 CD-ROM Report to Governors, Mayors, Counties
  with all streamlining tools that have reduced
  regulatory costs by 60
• 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
• DOE/PNNL interoperability for RESCheck COMCheck
  tools

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COORDINATING ACTIONS TO LINK INITIATIVES

• ALLIANCE PROJECTS OF RELEVANCE TO FIATECH
• High level national conference on regulatory
  streamlining 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 TO LINK INITIATIVES

• FIATECH PROJECTS OF RELEVANCE TO
  ALLIANCE/NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
• Within FIATECHs Capital Projects Technology Road
  Map what are the relationships and data exchange
  interfaces with the building regulatory process?
  What regulatory processes need to be streamlined
  to support?
• What other FIATECH projects interface with the
  regulatory streamlining and need support?

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COORDINATING ACTIONS TO LINK INITIATIVES

• FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Several Proposed Next
  Steps to Better Coordinate Where Appropriate
  Link
• The FIATECH Facility Information Systems
  Initiative with
• The Alliance/National Partnership to Streamline
  Government Initiative

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PROPOSED COORDINATION / LINK - FIATECH ALLIANCE

• POSSIBLE NEXT ACTIONS
• Meeting between Alliance/National Partnership
  Steering Committee FIATECH leadership to
  consider
• What streamlined I.T. elements in building
  regulatory system does FIATECH need to support
  interoperability and the success of its Road Map?
• What other FIATECH projects can regulatory
  streamlining support?

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PROPOSED COORDINATION / LINK - FIATECH ALLIANCE

• POSSIBLE NEXT ACTIONS JOINT MEETING
• Special Role for FIATECH in upcoming National
  Streamlining Conference January 10-11, 2007
• Develop list of coordinated joint educational
  efforts to
• construction industry
• elected officials
• building departments
• on benefits of use of I.T. in construction,
  building operation and codes administration and
  enforcement
• Identify and share best practices that speed
  construction and regulatory oversight and add to
  databases of both initiatives

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PROPOSED COORDINATION / LINK - FIATECH ALLIANCE

• POSSIBLE NEXT ACTIONS FOR JOINT MEETING
• Explore joint support for streamlining grants to
  state and local governments
• Explore joint support for other initiatives
  BIM, buildingSMART, etc.

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PROPOSED COORDINATION / LINK - FIATECH ALLIANCE

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

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PROPOSED COORDINATION / LINK - FIATECH ALLIANCE

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

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

• VISIT THE ALLIANCE /NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
  WEBSITE www.natlpartnerstreamline.org
• Write or Call rcwible_at_comcast.net,
  703-568-2323
• THANK YOU