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Summary of Round-Table Discussions of Possible Solutions
Summary of Round-Table Discussions of Possible Solutions
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He noted that the morning speakers had identified the primary reasons for the lack of user participation in He standards development process; namely, the high cost and considerable amount of time involved in participating. He observed that the construction community includes mostly small to mid-sized organizations that cannot afford to send engineers or architects to standards committee meetings.
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ISSUE 1: GETTING MANAGEMENT INVOLVED Mr. Lowell asked the panel members to suggest steps that might be taken to increase the awareness of government and industry leaders of the importance of standards and to induce senior managers to let their people work on standards committees.
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What is needed, he said, is an effort to educate upper management in user organizations of the importance of standards and of the fact that it is in their self interest to help develop standards. Standards, he noted are going to be developed whether users participate or not, but if users do not participate, He standards may not reflect He needs of users.
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Mr. Toth recommended that standards-writing organizations provide top management in He user organizations that participate in standards committees an opportunity to help develop strategic plans for standards activities, possibly by creating a special "advisory council" that would serve as an outside board of directors to the standards organizations.
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Chamber of Commerce, develop and distribute a policy statement on the importance of standards to the international competitiveness of the United States. The statement might be modeled after the white paper issued about ten years ago by He British government entitled, "Quality, Standards and International Competitiveness," which set forth a British standardization policy that helped promote quality awareness in the United Kingdom.
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ISSUE 2: IMPROVING THE STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS To begin the discussion of Issue 2, Mr. Lowell asked each panelist to name the single greatest problem in the standards development process and to recommend a solution to that problem.
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He said that the system would differ from the National Standards System Network (NSSN) described by Greg Saunders in the morning session in that it would be specifically for construction standards and would include data on published standards as well as standards under development.
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Mr. Shrive disagreed with the idea of societies and associations paying for their members to participate in standards work for two reasons: First because of concern that some society members might resent having their dues money used for the personal benefit of another member; and second because of doubt that it would be effective.
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He said that the conference participants had recommended that engineering societies become more involved in the accreditation process and work to have the accreditation board for engineering schools modify the criteria for evaluating engineering schools. He added that one society, the IEEE, had in fact started to implement the recommendations, and that IEEE representatives would soon meet with the deans of several engineering schools to discuss accreditation criteria.
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He also endorsed the idea of combining standards training with technical training, because, he said, the two subjects are not separable. He suggested that combining the two subjects also might help deal with the problem of some architects and engineers using standards without learning the underlying technology.
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Chinworth's suggestion. However, he suggested Mat standards organizations could help in the development of a tracking process by including key words on the title pages of their standards, stating the scopes of their standards succinctly and explicitly, and providing clear abstracts of their standards.
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Producers tend to dominate standards committees there is a need for more user participation. The standards development process takes too long.
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Ask standards developing organizations to offer standards training in conjunction with major committee meetings. Develop a process to identify what construction standards are available or under revision or development.
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