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6 Visions of the Future: Enabling Design and Integration of Emerging Technologies
Pages 34-42

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... This session was an open dialogue between speakers and the audience, and the panelists opened with brief remarks. DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS Craig Davis began with a series of questions for the audience to consider: what might resilient infrastructure look like in the future; how could we best utilize emergent technologies; and, what will emerging technologies mean for operations of different systems?
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... You take little samples of this and implement it into the system in areas that aren't so risky… You do it in ways where you can fill it out over time and then build it up." DESIGN CHOICES AS PERFORMANCE INVESTMENTS David Mar presented on design choices as infrastructure performance investments, and ways to communicate earthquake resilient design options to owners and stakeholders. His discussion centered on several projects, which he presented as examples of the benefits of performance-based design.
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... SOURCE: David Mar. A similar design idea was applied to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters.
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... The third example of performance-based design was a nine-story tower being designed for formerly homeless seniors in downtown San Francisco (Figure 6-3)
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... Mar's team presented the owners with two design simulations: a conventional design and the high-performance one. Simulations modeled using FEMA P-58 and S-P3 software demonstrated that the high-performance design added $500,000 in resilient value for nearly the same cost (Figures 6-4 and 6-5)
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... SOURCE: David Mar. THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF CITIES Peter Marx is formerly the Chief Technology Officer for Los Angeles and currently vice president of Predix at General Electric.
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... Marx asserted that everyone is collecting incredible amounts of sensor data just by using smartphones, connected vehicles, and transportation systems. Marx noted that General Electric has been doing substantial work using time series data to support predictive maintenance: for example, data collected on power systems, to predict failures and proactively correct devices, and systems to avoid disruptions.
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... Davis responded that he believes the public understands resilience as a general idea; however, public relations personnel could help to communicate the nuances of performance-based design. He maintained that better communication would improve the efficacy of resilience efforts and help to better understand community needs.
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