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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
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
CONNECTING SYSTEMS –THE NEED
• Perspective from the Alliance for Building Regulatory
Reform in Digital Age / National Partnership
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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.
CONNECTING SYSTEMS – THE NEED
Alliance / National Partnership Mission
“Enhance nation’s public safety, disaster resilience and
economic competitiveness through streamlining the
nation’s regulatory process to make it more effective and
efficient.”
CONNECTING SYSTEMS –THE NEED
Six Forces Transforming Both The
Construction Industry And Way State And
Local Governments Regulate
CONNECTING SYSTEMS –THE NEED
SIX TRANSFORMING FORCES
1. Demographic – aging population & immigration
2. Environmental – energy costs, resource depletion &
global warming
3. Technological – rapid changes & new technologies
4. Economic – changing role of nation in global economy
5. Reduced Resources – demands for downsizing and
increased efficiency in government & private sectors
6. Public Safety - greater demand, natural disasters and
terrorism
CONNECTING SYSTEMS –THE NEED
A LOOK AT FOUR OF THOSE FORCES
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Environmental
Technological
Economic
Public Safety
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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3D & 4 D design
GIS
Wireless Technologies
RFID
Web-based services
CONNECTING SYSTEMS – NATIONAL INITIATIVES
INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS THESE FORCES
• New Organizations/Initiatives to Promote More Effective and
Efficient Construction, Building Operation & Regulation
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FIATECH
IAI
U.S. Green Building Council
PATH
buildingSMART
Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in Digital Age / National
Partnership to Streamline Government
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
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construction industry
construction process
Technology
level of government
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
CONNECTING SYSTEMS – CONVERGENCE OF INITIATIVES
As Virtual Design & Construction, FIATECH’s
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
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
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
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
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
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.
COORDINATING ACTIONS TO LINK INITIATIVES
• FIATECH PROJECTS OF RELEVANCE TO
ALLIANCE/NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP:
– Within FIATECH’s 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?
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
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?
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
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.
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
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 – let’s do it together!
FOR MORE INFORMATION
• VISIT THE ALLIANCE /NATIONAL
PARTNERSHIP WEBSITE:
www.natlpartnerstreamline.org
• Write or Call: [email protected], 703568-2323
THANK YOU