Federal Policies to Foster Innovation and Improvement in Constructed Facilities Summary of a Symposium (1996) / Chapter Skim
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CERF's mission is to bring together diverse groups within the civil engineering community, serving as a catalyst to help the design and construction industry expedite the transfer of research results and innovation into practice. We can only commercialize and apply new products and processes in the construction industry if we harness the skills and interests of the diverse communities that comprise our industry.
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He later worked in planning, design and project management for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Great Lalces; as a staff engineer for the Naval Reserve Command; a project manager for the development of the Trident Submarine Base at Bangor, Washington; as staff engineer for the Chief of Army Reserve; and on various assignments within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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Cost Major Military Construction Base Closure and Realignment Minor Construction & Repair Environmental Programs Energy & Water Conservation Non-Appropriated Construction Total 3.19 1.80 5.05 0.17 0.28 0.43 10.92 123
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We build additional clubs, commissaries, and exchanges and welfare and recreational facilities with that. For FY 1996, the total is about $11 billion and that's about the same level of funding for DoD's construction program as past years.
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. Licensed architects or engineers act as building officials Convert to metric Dictionary of standard terms One model code One model guide specification Listing of all products that meet the model specification Licensed architects or engineers acting as building officials has to do with one of my recent experiences in county government.
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We also manage 400,000 buildings. Somebody ought to have learned something from managing those 400,000 buildings that can feed back into our guide specifications and criteria.
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Environmental Protection Agency research and development program, General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, international environmental issues, and the Economic Development Administration.
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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, receive the building plan for the coming fiscal year from the Public Buildings Service (PBS)
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This process of evaluation is complicated when politics come in to play. For example, in recent years federal buildings and construction have received increased media and public scrutiny.
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We've got limited amounts of resources to deal with. It will be difficult to meet the public building needs as presented by GSA with less money and also more difficult to carry out operations.
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Formerly with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, he has produced publications on federal statistics, textiles and apparel, information technology, technology and education, energy efficiency technology, construction, renewable energy, strategic arms control, nuclear effects, and quantum electrodynamics.
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One of the reasons that these areas were chosen as focus areas is that the construction industry is not only fragmented as an industry, but its treatment within the federal government is very highly fragmented. We have been working very closely with business groups to try to find ways to focus what is being done.
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To that end, we have been working with a lot of the regulations. Of course, there are state and local regulations as well as federal regulations affecting the construction industry.
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The whole direction of manufacturing has been toward finding ways of getting high productivity in small batch production quantities. That is exactly what the construction industry needs to do.
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and its future is uncertain. In closing, I would like to end on the positive note of the administration's recognition of the need for research focus in the construction industry and the work that has been done to support research.
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He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives, the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, and the Industrial Development Resources Council.
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. Besides being the Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service, I am also head of the GSA police force.
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That's impractical, because most federal buildings, by and large, have to have visitors and people coming to them. You cannot create a great distance between the building itself and the access to the public.
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~:~ ~ ~ ~ ~: FIGURE 1 U.S. Court of Appeals Building, San Francisco, California FIGURE 2 Friction Pendulum System 141
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I came back from Atlanta this week where I attended a partnering session that was being conducted there with the Architect/Engineering (A/E) firm, GSA, and the clients that will occupy the Atlanta federal office building.
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An executive information system we're calling GAMUS, that will overlay on the GIS, reaches into the information pool, draws the information up, graphically displays this in a way that allows us to relate several variables at once on a graph, on a map, or in another way that allows us to understand and use that information. One last topic that I would like to address is the courthouse construction program, since the courthouse construction projects do dominate the GSA's billion-dollar construction and acquisition budget.
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We have not found a way technically to resolve this. In some cases we have been very clever in creating annexes, or we were able to build additional courtrooms in the existing facilities, but those wind up being the exceptions.
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Page was a senior associate and director of transportation projects at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
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In many ways those are goals that one would want a responsible government to pursue. In addition, the personal and political costs of failure in the public sector are very, very high, as they are in the private sector.
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Bechtel was one of the only American companies that we found had retained a core technology R&D group. A lot of the other major companies responded to our inquiries by saying, "Well, we are sorry that we had to do it, but in the severe recession that the construction industry suffered in the 1980s, R&D was eliminated." Most had had a research and development section, but dropped it, and in that sense Bechtel appears now to be atypical.
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Many already have access to the Internet, and establishing a bulletin board or clearing house for innovation could grow into an electronic federal innovation information clearing house. Such a clearing house could provide a knowledge inventory, identify innovators, and provide global access to all interested parties, both public and private.
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method of connecting innovators and people with common problems. It is another form of partnering, an electronic form, that can provide an easy flow of technical information between public and private sectors.
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