Final Report on Federal Construction Council Activities for 1977-1978 and Planned FCC Technical Program for 1978-1979 (1979) / Chapter Skim
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FINAL REPORT ON FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL ACTIVITIES FOR 1977-1978 AND PLANNED FCC TECHNICAL PROGRAM FOR 1978-1979 PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION CoUNCIL BUILDING RESEARCH Apvisory BoaRD CoMMISSION ON SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS NATIONAL RESEARCH CoUNCIL NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON, 1)
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FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL of the BUILDING RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD The Federal Construction Council serves as a planning, coordinating, and operating body to encourage continuing cooperation among federal agencies in advancing the science and technology of building as related to federal construction activities. In this pursuit, its specific objectives include: Assembly and correlation of available knowledge and experience from each of the agencies; elimination of undesirable duplication in investigative effort on common problems; free discussion among scientific and technical personnel, both within and outside the government, on selected building problems; objective resolution of technical problems of par- ticular concern to the federal construction agencies; and appropriate distribution of resulting information.
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FOREWORD This report describes the activities carried out by the Federal Construction Council (FCC) during the 1977-1978 operating year, which ended 30 September 1978, and the activities the FCC expects to carry out during the 1978- 1979 operating year, which began 1 October 1978.
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I. Contents Introduction.
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I. INTRODUCTION The Federal Construction Council is a special element of the Building Research Advisory Board (BRAB)
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specialists nominated by the agencies and appointed in accordance with the procedures of the National Research Council.) In connection with its broad management responsibilities, the Council periodically reviews its goals to ensure that they reflect the real needs of the supporting agencies and its procedures to ensure that maximum benefit is being received for the funds invested.
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II. REPORT ON FCC ACTIVITIES DURING THE 1977-1978 OPERATING YEAR The Federal Construction Council's technical program for the 1977-1978 operating year (which began 1 October 1977)
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2 preparation has been assigned to one of these agencies, on the basis of the expertise available at the agency. Use of FCGS sections by agencies is voluntary.
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In connection with the cost forecasting part of the program, two seminars were held during the 1977- 1978 operating year (in January 1978 and in June 1978)
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Q. Through this program the federal construction .
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Desiqn Handbook, the third in July 1978 on a joint Army and Air Force technical manual on water supply and water storage, and the fourth in September 1978 on the National Bureau of Standards report, The Selection of Preferred Metric Values for Desiqn and Construction. F nformation Exchange Program The purpose of the Information Fxchange Program (terminated at the end of the 1977-1978 operating year)
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ae Stimulate and assist the research community in the development of needed analytical capability, b. Prepare and periodically update mdel guidelines and technical criteria that federal agencies can use to incorporate professional fire safety design analysis as an integral and continuing part of the design of federally owned and financed buildings, c.
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permit efforts to be concentrated on completing ongoing projects.
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