Fiatech Video Presentation Series
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Nicole Testa Boston moderates a 60-minute webinar every Tuesday from 11:00-12:00 eastern time (ET). Each webinar features new and emerging technologies and trends. The webinars are complimentary. For more information, contact info@fiatech.org.
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| 1 | VideoToys for Techies - 11-15-11 | Presented by: Francis Rabuck, Director, Technology Research, Bentley Systems He’s back. You don’t want to miss the 5th annual “Toys for Techies” webinar presentation for 2011. Fran Rabuck (aka Santa) from Bentley Systems will be continuing the annual tradition of a review of all the hot toys, gadgets and gizmos for the holiday season. You don’t want to miss this, because not only will he give you ideas for those people that are “hard to buy for,” but he will give you ideas for cool gifts to put on your own wish list. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoAutomated Code Plan Checking Tool--Proof-Of-Concept | In March 2011 the Fiatech Regulatory Streamlining Committee launched AUTOCodes, a proof-of-concept (POC) project to develop automated code-checking rule sets. The International Code Council (ICC), some U.S. jurisdictions, and independent software developers are collaborating on the initial phase of the project that will demonstrate the viability of using software rule sets to check the accessibility and egress provisions of the ICC International Building Code. To achieve this, the project team is conducting a comparative analysis between traditional, manual plan reviews and a BIM-based checking process. In April 2011, code officials and plan-check engineers from participating jurisdictions were given a set of 2D plans derived from a Target Corporation store prototype BIM. The jurisdictions were instructed to perform a standard accessibility and egress plan review. The results provided key insights into the way plan reviews are conducted and will be published in a final POC report. Long-term project objectives include the development of an extensive, open-source rule set library that will be approved and adopted by industry and regulatory bodies alike. The rule sets are to be used by technology developers in commercial companies and code officials for the next generation of design, construction, and facility management. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoSmartHat: Self-Monitoring Alert and Reporting Technology for Hazard Avoidance and Training | Presented by: Jochen Teizer, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology In the past two decades, more than 26,000 U.S. construction workers have died at work. That equates to approximately five construction worker deaths every working day. Of these fatalities, 25 percent involved heavy equipment, most being categorized as struck-by incidents. It is assumed that significant improvements can be gained in construction safety once technology is applied to existing safety management practices. The primary goal of the research team was to demonstrate how technology can be used to proactively alert construction personnel of the presence of hazards in real time. The secondary objective was to explore how emerging technology can revolutionize safety by taking advantage of automated work site monitoring, data collection, visualization, and reporting practices that transfer data to information and information to knowledge. Knowledge is finally applied at all safety levels, including advanced work task planning and training best practices. The researchers first designed and built a novel UHF passive RFID SmartHat device that is intrinsically safe, can be calibrated for distance, and has a very low to zero worker nuisance alert ratio. The SmartHat device is battery free, can read distances up to 19.5m, is reliable to use, and maintenance free. Feedback of 143 workers, superintendents, foremen, and safety managers who tested it was 100 percent positive. Ninety-six percent of the workers would wear the device again if provided. The “learning curve” of a worker can be automatically calculated through the SmartHat devices and the proximity to an overhanging load can be visualized in a real-time 3D immersive tool. Effective and efficient learning and training is envisioned in the future to boost safety and productivity performance of workers. The proposed devices have the ability to record historical safety data. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video20110614 Next Level Hospital Planning | -- | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoProStar Online | In the United States, more than 20 million excavations are performed annually. By law, excavators must communicate information about planned excavations to the utilities that have underground facilities in the area through a state ticket management and call center system called, "Call Before You Dig" or 811. The current system employs antiquated practices and is reactive and disjointed. It fails to store any data gathered during the utility locating and marketing process, thereby failing to promote the sharing and updating of data. The challenge was to develop a platform that uses state-of-the-art technologies to provide a solution that will support all facets of the utility asset data management network and encourage collaboration of all stakeholders in order to improve the collection, storage, management and distribution processes currently plaguing the industry. The system needs to be open architecture and leverage global technologies and development standards, including cloud computing and XML, as well as integrate with current hardware and software systems in order to adapt to current industry practices, processes, strategies, and methodologies. The benefits of fixing the problem would include an improved data life cycle from data location through data distribution, including data sharing and notification process to stakeholders across all required disciplines. This decreases one-call ticket notifications, damages to utilities during construction activities, reduces loss of life and limb, damages to the environment, the need for redundant locations and relocations as well as reduce damages caused during construction. Guardian ProStar created a solution to accurately capture, compare, value, and distribute asset data in an acceptable format across all required disciplines and address all of the serious ramifications associated to poor quality of data. The system improves the data life cycle and reduces locates and relocates as well as reduces damages caused during construction. Companies can also leverage the improved data for other operations, such as planning and design, tax assessment, and emergency disaster planning. The data management system is accessed through a portal from a cloud network and operated through the internet, both in the office and in the field. The system is embedded into Google Maps and operational on mobile platforms, including smartphone apps. With this information, engineers will more efficiently design their projects, locators will provide more accurate marks, and contractors will dig safely. Accurate underground utility mapping will save the industry time and money and ultimately will save lives. | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoReasons We're Part of FIATECH | Tom Hannigan, President, Zachry Nuclear | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoJohn Moore, CEO, Acorn Energy ? Keynote Presentation at FIATECH 2011 Technology Conference | -- | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoInstrumenting Civil Infrastructure to Increase its Resilience, Adaptiveness, and Self-monitoring Capabilities | Presented by: Dr. Mario Bergés, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University **Recipient of the 2010 CETI Award in "Outstanding Early Career Researcher" Category Dr. Bergés is interested in instrumenting our civil infrastructure to increase its resilience, adaptiveness, and self-monitoring capabilities. He is interested in making use of cost-effective sensor systems to automatically create models and generate insights that can be used to improve the behavior of infrastructure systems, prevent failures and better plan for the future. He is currently exploring the possible applications to the problem of improving the energy efficiency of buildings. He has been working on three different approaches related to this: appliance-level energy feedback through minimally intrusive strategies, sharing sensing and actuation resources at Internet scales, and unsupervised sensor fusion for proactive energy management. In the first approach, the main objectives are to create a framework for obtaining disaggregated, appliance-specific feedback about electricity consumption in a building by extracting high-value information from low-cost data sources like the building’s overall powerful consumption as measured at the main feed; and to investigate and develop data mining and machine learning algorithms for making use of appliance-specific electricity data, in order to provide users with recommendations on how to optimize their energy consumption and understand the effects of their energy-related decisions. In the second approach, the Sensor Andrew project proposes a collection of hardware and software components that form a virtual instrument for large-scale sensing and actuation. Professor Bergés’ research in this area is in both the design of the software architecture and the models for the system, as well as the development of applications that consume the generated data. Finally, Bergés has been interested in utilizing a variety of sensor streams to automatically create models of how buildings, their owners, the environment, and the energy consumption patterns are related. He has developed algorithms to find statistical correlations between signals coming from a variety of environmental and power sensors in a building to understand typical consumption patterns and detect instances of wasteful energy demand. | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoLife Cycle Assessment Methods for Complex Systems - May 10 | Presented by: Michael Lepech, Assistant Professor, Stanford University **Recipient of the 2010 CETI Award in Technology & Knowledge Enabled Workforce Category This ongoing academic/industrial partnership program introduces graduate students at Stanford University and industrial partner firms to the methods of life cycle assessment and the technology tools that can be used to carry these studies out. Started in October 2008, more than 150 Stanford graduate students and 28 corporations have participated in the partnership program. Each summer, a professor and graduate students solicit corporate partners with compelling, sustainability-focused decisions. Major firms that continue to participate in the program include Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, DPR Construction, and Webcor Builders. Over the course of the three-month academic quarter, five-member student groups partner with industry sponsors and mentors to formulate a project scope, collect primary data on social, environmental, and economic factors of the project, analyze the findings, and present the results at an annual symposium on campus. Groups interact through conference calls, WebEx meetings, Skype, and archived online discussions. Graduates of the program work at Degenkolb Engineers and Walt Disney Imagineering while Ashland Performance Materials, the 50th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States in 2002, has been active in company-wide sustainability efforts. The program has trained Stanford graduate engineers in the tools and technologies of quantitative sustainability assessment, engaging and educating firms interested in sustainability metrics and decision-making, and enabling long-term partnerships between academia and industry focused on new technologies to support sustainability assessment and enable a workforce fluent in sustainability science. Each year, the program results in firms reducing their environmental impacts, improving their decision making, and increasing their sustainability-focused employment opportunities for students. | 5/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoLife Cycle Building Data Management | Presented by: Igor Starkov, President, EcoDomus **Recipient of the 2010 CETI Award in Life Cycle Data Management and Information Integration Category The Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center project consisted of two buildings, a $68 million health professions education building and a $60 million medical research and education building, plus a central utility plant. The university wanted to receive a complete set of building information and use it for facility management. The computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) was not selected at that point, so the university wanted to make sure that the data would be in a format that may be used for any CMMS it chooses. Also, the project was contracted out before BIM became a requirement, so the university wanted to use 3D intelligent facility management, even if the model was designed in old CAD format. The university wanted to use open standards, such as COBie and Omni Class, to collect data during design and construction. This project was the first large project in the world to use COBie. The savings from using the COBie process, managed by Broaddus & Associates, Inc., and EcoDomus software reached 45 percent of the standard handover costs. In addition, EcoDomus software enabled connection of the 3D CAD model to the collect COBie dataset, enabling creation of an intelligent BIM model from the 3D CAD. The university wanted to use this project as a test case for the implementation of COBie for all future construction projects. After the project demonstrated a high-quality vendor-neutral dataset of building information, other university project managers put the COBie requirement into their contracts, and the Broaddus/EcoDomus team signed two more projects with the university?s other campuses. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThe Upcoming Revolution in Construction | Presented by: ;Behrokh Khoshnevis , Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaThe nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in manufacturing, the growth of automation in construction has been slow. A promising new automation approach is | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoPoison or Nourishment? Why Quantitative Easing Demands Contractors to Hedge Their Risk Today! | Presented by : Mark Bridgers, Principal, Continuum Adisory GroupIn November 2010, the Federal Reserve began to implement at 6 month policy of "Quantitative Easing" that will result in the injection of $600 billion of liquidity in the U.S. financial markets. This policy is designed to address economic stagnation and high unemployment. There is broad diversity of opinion about whether this policy will work, even among the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors. What has not been widely discussed is the likely impact over the 2011 and 2012 time frame to the construction markets and more specifically, contractors, architects, and engineers. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoToys for Techies | Presented by Fran Rabuck, Bentley Systems He?s back. You don?t want to miss the 4th annual ?Toys for Techies? webinar presentation for 2010. Fran Rabuck (aka Santa) from Bentley Systems will be continuing the annual tradition of a review of all the hot toys, gadgets and gizmos for the holiday season. You don?t want to miss this, because not only will he give you ideas for those people that are ?hard to buy for,? but he will give you ideas for cool gifts to put on your own wish list. | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoDesigning New Levels of Efficiency & Collaboration with Digital Signatures | Presented by Sam Aviram, AEC Market Manager, ;ARX In light of the world-wide financial crisis, AEC organizations are faced with fierce competition over fewer projects and clients demanding better, faster, and cheaper results. Digital signatures seamlessly integrated into everyday business processes and applications enable geographically-dispersed engineers to quickly, securely and compliantly sign and seal any document type, and deliver it in a matter of minutes. As such, digital signatures enable organizations to utilize their best resources – regardless of location – while enhancing collaboration, generating greater client satisfaction, increasing sustainability, and cutting organizational costs by reducing paper-based expenditures (printing, routing, archiving, etc.). | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoThe Real Value of Better Front-End Planning for Capital Projects | Presented by Dr. G. Edward Gibson, Professor and Sunstate Chair of Construction Management and Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University and Sandra MacGillivray, Coreworx The main deliverable of the Front End Engineering & Design (FEED) phase is a sufficient level of design for procurement to prepare cost and schedule estimates for submission of the project AFE (authorization for expenditure). If project funding is approved, the design deliverables of FEED become the primary inputs into the next phase in the project lifecycle, detailed design. With up to 80% of project costs defined during FEED it's imperative that the proper tools are used to make informed decisions early in the process. The intensity of FEED research and diligence has a direct impact on the quality of the overall project and Owner/Operator performance. Industry research shows that projects with more intensive front end planning effort performed over 10% better in terms of cost, 7% better in schedule performance and 5% better in change orders. Find out how the right tools can mitigate project risk, monitor progress, improve collaboration and remove uncertainty, creating an environment of high certainty around cost and schedule estimates. This translates directly into cost savings. For major capital projects over $1 billion in total installed cost, a 10% improvement in cost performance, directly attributable to an intensive front end planning effort, presents $100 million in potential savings. | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoReplicable Building Guideline | During 2009, Target Corporation individually and in collaboration through the FIATECH Streamlining Project successfully initiated a national campaign to advance electronic plan review of building design packages and single plan reviews by jurisdictions of replicable buildings. This effort entailed developing a pilot demonstration of a streamlined and single plan review for a minor building renovation throughout the entire chain of Target stores and selecting jurisdictions within two geographical regions, the Mid-Atlantic Region (especially the city of Philadelphia) and the state of California to accept a single plan review conducted by an approved third party agency or International Code Council and documenting the time savings to Target from those single plan reviews for multiple stores. In addition, this project involved establishing within FIATECH Roadmap's Streamlining Project a work committee comprised of 32 representatives from other ?big box stores? and replicable building firms including Home Depot, Marriott Corporation, Arby?s, and Habitat for Humanity, state and local governments and the International Code Council to draft an ICC Guideline that allows local building officials to approve single plan reviews for such structures built within their region. In late October the above work group produced and presented to the ICC for its consideration the draft ICC Guideline for Replicable Buildings. On November 2, 2009 the ICC Board of Directors accepted the draft Guideline and appointed the members of the FIATECH work group to serve as ICC?s Replicable Building Guideline development Committee. On December 18, 2009, the ICC Guideline Committee produced a final Guideline for distribution to ICC members for national adoption and use in early 2010. | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoImproving Construction Productivity Using an Automated Field Data Collection System | Engineered components generally account for a significant percentage of the total installed cost of an industrial construction project. However, current industry practices still rely on the ability of human resources using manual, paper based field material control processes to accurately track thousands or more of these components prior to material being onsite, during receiving, throughout yard inventory life and material issue to craft. Current practices require an enormous amount of human labor to constantly track occurrences of material relocation when there is an unexpected and un-recorded movement of these components from their original storage location. These site-tracking practices are inefficient, time consuming, expensive, and error prone, all which lead to costly delays, decreased work quality, and budget overages. During this webinar we will review how EPC firms are improving upstream and downstream construction productivity by streamlining their field data collection processes using Automated Identification & Data Collection (AIDC) technologies such as barcode, passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), active RFID and GPS in conjunction with software operating on mobile devices. | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoWhy Project_Based Solutions Are Replacing ERP For Improved Support Of The Project Life Cycle | Presented by Kenny Ingram, Global Product Director, IFS and Christian Klingspor, Global Product Manager, Engineering and Maintenance, IFS For over a decade project centric organizations have been struggling to reap the same benefits the manufacturing industry has experienced with integrated ERP systems. This is primarily because traditional ERP systems were developed to support short, repetitive production cycles tied to a master schedule, whereas project centric companies generally have custom, build to order projects with long lead times, multiple subcontracts, complex material requirements and are tied to a work breakdown structure. While ERP systems could support many of the corporate functions of a project centric organization, such as finance and HR, these companies were often forced to develop in house applications, or heavily modify their ERP solution in order to support their more complex business processes. Enter the Project Based Solution, which combined the integrated enterprise benefits of ERP, but are designed specifically to support the complex business processes of project centric organizations. This webinar will examine the fundamental differences between traditional ERP and Project Based Solutions and provide case examples of how project centric organizations like yours are reaping the benefits. It will also demonstrate how Project Based Solutions provide a strong foundation for supporting the integrated project lifecycle and ISO standards, such as 15926. | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoProject Data Visualization and Interoperability Problems? JT Has Answers | The cost of poor interoperability has been valued at greater than the entire market capitalization of the CAD industry, annually. Typically data is stored in a format that can only be read by the software program used to create the original files, and is not accessible to consumers who may not have the native software applications. JT is an open platform for visualization, collaboration and data sharing that is designed to be inclusive and welcoming to all organizations involved in industry worldwide. As testimony to JT's openness, in 2009 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) accepted the JT File Format Specification for publication as an ISO Publicly Available Specification (PAS) for 3D Visualization. The JT data representation is: ? a rich data model with robust entity support ? a high-performance, compact persistence archive format for graphics data ? the best-in-class for supporting large assembly ? model interactive capabilities In many cases, JT maybe the only format common to the major engineering applications that might be used in an enterprise. Join this web seminar to learn more about JT and the community of corporate users that use JT to solve common problems and the growing list of software vendors that support them. About JT and the JT Open Program JT Open is a unique program to help members leverage the benefits of open collaboration across the extended enterprise through the adoption of the JT format, a technology that makes it possible to view and share product and project information throughout the lifecycle. JT Open partnerships with companies like Microsoft and Adobe will continue to increase this trend. Join us for the JT Open 2010 International conference in Orlando, FL on September 13-14, 2010. For more information visit, www.jtopen.com. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoGlobal Materials Management Solutions (GMMS) Update | Presented by Reg Hunter, an independent Productivity Improvement Strategist and an Engineered Systems Solution Designer GMMS represents a collaboration of established construction industry logistics, materials information management and engineered solutions providers, working in concert with owners, EPCs, fabricators, BIM and FIM suppliers to realize an integrated and deployable materials management solution that provides end-to-end visibility, predictability, traceability, chain-of-custody and control of construction materials. This webinar will provide the reduction-to-practice overview of GMMS, which represents the next logical step from the concepts and strategies highlighted in previous FIATECH productivity improvement webinars (Feb 17 - Planning for Productivity Improvement: Capital Construction Projects), FIATECH productivity improvement pre-conference workshops, conference exhibits, and presentations. In addition, the concepts and motivations for GMMS is discussed in the upcoming RFID for Material Management and Productivity Improvement book, soon to be released by FIATECH. To facilitate reduction-to-practice assessments, a GMMS demonstration deployment has been made at the Panprojects/Panalpina facility located near the Houston airport. This allows all aspects of the system to be evaluated and refined without disruption to any construction jobsite and also enables ongoing evaluation of productivity improvement systems and technologies. | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoIntegrate High Definition Surveying Directly into Real-time Construction Site?s Geomatics | Presented by Seth Goucher, Cianbro Motiva Enterprises LLC, a joint-venture owned by affiliates of Shell and Saudi Aramco, is building an epic expansion at its refinery in Port Arthur, TX. This project is vital to providing additional transportation fuels for the American consumer. When completed in 2010, the Motiva Port Arthur Refinery Expansion Project will create a 325,000 barrel-per-day (b/d) capacity expansion at the Port Arthur refinery, increasing its crude oil throughput capacity to 600,000 b/d. The expansion will make the refinery the largest in the U.S., and among the top 10 in the world. The project is equivalent to building a major new refinery. The last new refinery in the U.S. was built more than 30 years ago. To accommodate a project of this magnitude, the construction plans include offsite fabrication of modular units. The modules that are being fabricated are pipe racks and large sections of the process units. Four fabrication contractors located in Maine, South Carolina, Texas, and Mexico, were selected from more than 120 companies worldwide. Located in Brewer, Maine, Cianbro Constructors, is fabricating 53 of these geometrically complex modules. Each module weighs up to 650 tons, with an average size of 40 ft x 50 ft x 120 ft, and every module must be constructed to within one eighth of an inch tolerance at pipe connections. The scanning technology has also helped minimize the risk to field engineers on the busy fabrication site by eliminating the need to climb modules to gather positional data. With the high definition laser scanner, they can collect all necessary data from the ground. Not only is the risk eliminated, but the time to collect the data is only a fraction of what traditional collection methods would take as well as be carried out by a much larger field crew. By reducing the time needed to collect data, the field engineering crew is less apt to impact the production yield of the associated crafts who erect the modules. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoDriving Construction Project Success with Trust-Based Collaboration | Presented by Doug Rubingh, Manager of Engineering and Resources - Americas, Aconex and Shawn Pressley, Vice President of Project Management Systems, Hill InternationalLarge-scale engineering and construction initiatives typically involve hundreds of stakeholders across wide geographical areas. Streamlined communication and collaboration are crucial to delivering these projects on-budget and on-schedule, yet that is increasingly difficult in today's challenging economic environment. In addition, increasing scrutiny over the handling of high-stakes projects can lead to fingerpointing that undermines successful collaboration. This 60-minute webinar will provide practical advice to help engineering and construction management firms and their clients remove obstacles to effective collaboration and outline a new approach for building a trust-based foundation to ensure project success.Participants will learn:How adversarial relationships impede collaboration and increase project costs Why trust is central to collaboration and how to create the right conditions for trust What role online collaboration platforms can play in removing barriers How to choose and drive usage of an online collaboration solution | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoDigital Measurement & Layout Applied to David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center | Presented by Vincent Frasca, Theometrics **Recipient of the 2009 CETI Award in Real-time Project & Facility Management, Coordination & Controls Theometrics was contracted by RC Dolner Construction to supply dimensional quality control & risk mitigation services for the New York State / David H. Koch Theater project. Theometrics conducted electronic as?built measurement of existing conditions and created dimensionally accurate CAD drawings in .dwg format in the field, performed deviation studies that compared existing conditions to proposed design or shop drawings and also performed automated construction layout directly from the digital construction drawings. The project included the main theater area, existing seating, aisles, elevations, orchestra pit, center line and HVAC systems both above and below the theater levels. RC Dolner used the Theometrics technology to improve the project schedule and reduce the cost. Theometrics is an electronic measurement and layout technology that bridges the gap between BIM and the field. Theometrics extends the tradesmen in the field the speed and accuracy of BIM & CAD. The Theometrics systems makes it possible to layout construction work directly from digital drawings or models and represents a more powerful tool set than the traditional approach of relying on tape measures, strings and paper blueprints. Implementation of the Theometrics Systems will help drive BIM adoption with the trades and is a great way to introduce BIM benefits to any renovation project. The benefits of this tool are better allocation of resources such as man?power, materials and time; increased accuracy an overall reduction of communication and measurement errors and the ability to document existing conditions and work completed directly into CAD. | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoBIM FM | Presented by Gino Cecchetto, BIM Coordinator, Blach **Recipient of the 2009 CETI Award in Life Cycle Data Management & Information Integration Blach Construction?s desire to find new ways to deliver value to our clients, while also making positive contributions to construction-related technology, and our efforts to be environmentally conscious stewards of our planet formed the foundation of the drivers for this project. The three key drivers were 1) enhance construction processes by providing model-based access to all relevant project data for our onsite construction teams during the course construction, 2) create an as-built construction model that exists for the life of the facility, and 3) secure majority of our virtual design and construction efforts, as well as all of the above, accomplished by the same software package to maximize interoperability and minimize model bouncing. The main challenges faced were finding the correct software package to use as the foundation for this effort and quantifying what functionality would be of value to our clients. The benefit to the Alum Rock Union School District is that they now have an easy to use visual tool that allows them to easily see and select an object in the model and retrieve all relevant data about that object. The object can be anything represented in the model. In the case of Mathson, the data loaded objects are typically a piece of equipment such as HVAC units, electrical switchgear or panels, or supply and return air grills or dampers. They can open a hyperlinked operation and maintenance manual, the construction submittal documents, commissioning reports, or any other document that has been linked. Their archived as-built drawings have also been hyperlinked to the model. In addition to hyperlinked documents we have set up fully customized User Defined Attribute tabs that can be populated with any information the district wants to track. At Alum Rock we are tracking specific data for HVAC systems, electrical systems, commissioning reports, etc. We have also setup very detailed tabs for doors, frames, and hardware, plumbing fixtures, etc. An essential component of this tool is the ability, through fully customizable reporting features, to easily print a report of any of this data. In addition to the features detailed above the user can see which electrical panel and circuit any piece of equipment is on and can also see all the equipment on any specific panel through custom filters we have setup the turn the equipment feed by the selected panel red. We have also setup rolling HVAC maintenance schedules that color the units in the model to provide an instant visual cue as to which units will be due for maintenance within a predefined period of time. The end result of this increased efficiency is both lower maintenance costs and increased sustainability through reduction in the districts carbon footprint. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoReal-Time Supply Chain Management Using Virtual Design and Construction and Lean | Presented by Atul Khanzode, Director of Virtual Building at DPR Construction, PhD Candidate at CIFE, Stanford University and Sangwoo Cho, Senior BIM Engineer at DPR Construction, PhD Candidate at CIFE, Stanford University **Recipient of the 2009 CETI Award in Integrated, Automated Procurement & Supply Network According to interviews with general contractors, Doors, Frame and Hardware (DFH) account for approximately 2% of construction costs but often cause 30% of construction issues due to highly fragmented supply chains that are project-to-project based with multiple stakeholders, phases, disciplines and materials. As a result, there is a tremendous opportunity to improve overall supply chain management (SCM) of a building project by focusing on DFH. Recently, the Last Planner System® (LPS)-a lean construction technique for planning and progress checking-has been widely adopted for improvement of planning reliability and tracking and monitoring of project progress, eventually bringing a value generating process to aspects of supply chains on projects. However, based on observations, the use of LPS falls short in offering actual visibility and the ability for instant data input/output/sharing, which in turn decreases reliability and accountability in the SCM. To overcome these challenges, an integration system of real-time data capturing tools, Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) tools, and the LPS has been developed. Using barcode labels or RFID tags for data capturing and instant data sharing and using VDC tools like color-coded 4D models and model-based quantity takeoffs for making explicit the semantics of the data, project teams can increase visibility, accuracy and accountability of the SCM. This integration solution enables a big change in the behavior of the SCM: dramatic reduction in decision latency from days to hours and even minutes with clear visibility of the supply chains. | 5/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoBIM for Risk Management on Mega Projects | Presented by Dennis Shelden, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Gehry Technologies and Tarek Bahgat, Vice President, Gehry Technologies**Recipient of the 2009 CETI Award in Scenario-based Project PlanningThe project demonstrates value planning coupled with an ongoing Risk Management Program at The Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center (LMCCC). It involves the use and implementation of VDC/BIM to facilitate risk modeling and management on the reconstruction at the WTC site, and is an example of the extension of BIM into a truly integrated practice.The LMCCC team is demonstrating the ability of BIM to be applied to mega projects through the technological facility to accommodate thousands of objects and thousands of associated tasks. We are witnessing the team deliver BIM at scales encompassing the city and the extension of BIM into an integrated practice for risk management and mitigation. While the core value of BIM is in coordination and visibility, the team and the GT process have begun to reveal a future for BIM implementations: project optimization for complex risk analysis and mitigation. The LMCCC project is a prime example of the value BIM can have for the managing of complex multi-party iterative processes; for reinforcing the value of collaboration; for risk management and mitigation; and finally for value planning. | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoIntegrated Construction Planning with SmartPlant® Construction 2010 | Presented by Michael Buss, Vice President Materials & Construction, Global Business Development PPM, Intergraph | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoVisualization of Engineering Graphics in Augmented Reality for Integrated & Auto Project Processes | Presented by Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D., University of Michigan**Recipient of the 2009 CETI Award in Outstanding Early Career ResearcherVisualization of 3D graphical information for design (e.g. architectural rendering) or construction planning (e.g. 4D CAD) has traditionally been achieved on the computer using the Virtual Reality (VR) visualization paradigm. In order to create effective and useful visualizations in VR, detailed graphical information describing a facility’s design, the involved construction operations, and the jobsite environment has to be obtained. The data must describe the design and simulated engineering/construction processes, and contain 3D CAD models of project resources, the facility under construction, and the surrounding terrain. As the size and complexity of a project or operation increase, the creation, collection and maintenance of such graphical data (i.e. Model Engineering) becomes an arduous, impractical, and often impossible task. This directly translates into loss of financial and human resources that could otherwise be productively used in creating effective visual simulations.In an effort to remedy this situation, Prof. Kamat’s research program has designed and implemented the technology that enables the visualization of engineering graphics in geo-referenced Augmented Reality, by creating mixed views of real objects/artifacts existing on a jobsite, and virtual 3D CAD models of engineering data. Augmented Reality (AR) is the superimposition of computer-generated images over a user’s view of the real world. By presenting contextual information in graphical format, a user’s view of the real world is enhanced or augmented beyond the normal experience. The addition of such contextual computer-generated information spatially located (i.e. geo-referenced) relative to a user can assist in the performance of several engineering and construction tasks. Prof. Kamat’s research exploits this primary idea for improved engineering visualization. | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoStreamlining Commissioning and Closeout for Facilities Mgmt Integration - A Hospital Case | Presented by | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoVehicle Tracking & Telematics: Reduce Costs & CO2; Improve Svcs in Utilities & Construction | Presented by Craig Sears-Black, Sales & Marketing Director, Isotrak Ltd.; Boyd Neal, Business Systems Manager, Skanska Skanska Utilities? UK operations are using Isotrak vehicle tracking and telematics to help achieve their corporate objectives. Isotrak?s real time vehicle tracking technology, has been helping Skanska to lower costs, improve their productivity through better vehicle utilization, improve their customer service levels & reduce CO2 emissions. The system is key in helping to meet changing legislation & improve driver safety. This webinar will provide a valuable case study into Skanska?s use of Isotrak technology. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoProjectWise Lifecycle Server Leverages ISO 15926 to Deliver ROI in Weeks Not Years | Presented by Sam Migliore, Plant Operations Product Line Manager and Manoj Dharwadkar, Ph.D., Director, Data Interoperability, Bentley Systems ProjectWise Lifecycle Server, a standard for Handover and Single Source of Truth solutions brings its industry leading Features to the web. The first release of the new ProjectWise Lifecycle Server Web Interface includes a rich set of ASP pages that offer the features like robust searches, Data Management and Management of Change to an easy to implement, ASP.NET or SharePoint compatible portal environment. In this session you'll learn how Lifecycle Server Rapid Deployment Toolkit leverages ISO 15926 and ProjectWise Lifecycle Server core functionality to deliver ROI to our clients in weeks not years. This session will also provide an insight into how Bentley has been actively implementing the latest ISO 15926 iRING protocols in our OpenPlant suite of products and ProjectWise Lifecycle Server. A brief demonstration will be provided of an EPC to Owner-Operator data exchange scenario that leverages iRING protocols and OpenPlant Schema built from an online connection to ISO 15926 RDS/WIP. | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoPlanning for Productivity Improvement: Capital Construction Projects | Presented by Reg Hunter, Associate with Next Generation Productivity Solutions (NGPS), The DiLuzio Group and Panalpina This presentation will focus on methods for identifying, analyzing and ranking inefficiencies in construction material management; conducting trade studies to reduce or eliminate inefficiencies, performing cost benefit analyses; developing incremental deployment strategies; and consolidating all aspects of a solution into an actionable productivity improvement plan. A global solution to material management will be included in the presentation. | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoLife Cycle BIM: Data Workflow From Design & Construction to FM/O&M (and back) | Presented by Igor Starkov, Tokmo and Mitch Boryslawski, View by View COBIE is an interoperability standard for phased information delivery of data from design, construction and commissioning into facility management (FM) software systems. It?s getting wider adoption within the industry. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, GSA, Veterans Administration, Indiana University and Texas A&M University have put it as a mandatory requirement in their contracts. The webinar will explain how to collect COBIE data, pass it between various applications, check it for quality, and visually review and edit it both online and in 3D. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoUser Acceptance of Mobile IT | Presented by Neill Pawsey, Programme Manager, COMIT & Dr. Andrew May, Research Fellow, Loughborough University In order to provide business benefit, the increase of the acceptance and usage of new mobile technologies, within the construction industry, is needed. Key barriers and enablers to the adoption and diffusion of innovative mobile IT, and in particular to the "point of activity" worker, are being identified. By increasing the attractiveness of the industry to new entrants, particuarly graduates, further development of mobile technologies will flourish. FIATECH and COMIT have been working together over the last two years to better develop the understanding of these key issues. As such they have recently conducted a questionnaire and a series of transcribed interviews with key stakeholders in construction and technology organizations. This presentation will feedback the intial key results of this research. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoGVCC Software Demo | -- | 1/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoThe Business Value of Virtual Reality | Presented by Rolf Gibbels, Director, Global Market Development for the Energy Industry, Dassault Systèmes and Robert Mehall, Principal Consultant, Visualization Services, HPImproving Operations/Maintenance Planning and Training for Oil & GasAcross the Oil & Gas industry, whether you are an owner/operator, an EPC or a service firm, operations/maintenance activities and their requirements are very demanding. Many progressive organizations are relying on Virtual Planning and Virtual Reality solutions to address specific challenges.Join us Tuesday, December 8th for an interactive session on the Business Value of Virtual Reality – Improving Operations/Maintenance Planning and Training for Oil & Gas. Co-hosts HP and Dassault Systemes will demonstrate how you can: Increase productivity, QHSE performance and lower NPT with better planning operations and maintenance procedures in a 3D Virtual environment.Maximize workflow and resources with detailed and coordinated work schedules, including human ergonomics, kinematics and robotics simulations. Promote safety, reduce errors and eliminate disruption of work with off-site training through an immersive and interactive environment. Improve asset and operational productivity and safety through the use of reliable high-performing and secure technology environments for 3D Virtual Reality. Hear real-world examples of time and cost savings, and safety improvements. | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoToys for Techies | Presented by Fran Rabuck, Director, Intelligent Infrastructure Lab, Bentley SystemsHe’s back. You don’t want to miss the 3rd annual “Toys for Techies” webinar presentation for 2009. Fran Rabuck (aka Santa) from Bentley Systems will be continuing the annual tradition of a review of all the hot toys, gadgets and gizmos for the holiday season.You don’t want to miss this, because not only will he give you ideas for those people that are “hard to buy for,” but he will give you ideas for cool gifts to put on your own wish list. | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoWhere Does the "Internet of Things" Fit for the Construction Industry? | Presented by Patrick King, Founder, Technologies ROI LLC Unlike "iRobot", "1984" or "Terminator" where the good guy always wins, the Internet of tomorrow will evolve in ways unknowable and unexpected to us today and where the "winner" isn't as readily identifiable. Comfort may be wildly enhanced or tragically compromised. For undoubtedly, in this new world, devices and machines will communicate more and operate with less human intervention.During this webinar, Dr. King will provide examples currently impacting the construction industry and provide you with things to consider as time moves on. This will be a fun and imaginative hour considering what technology revolutions and evolutions await us and what we can do now to prepare for them! | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoEuropean Perspective on Applications for Future Smart, Energy Efficient Buildings | Presented by Alain Zarli, PhD, Head of Division, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) and Sami Kazi, PhD, Chief Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandInformation and Communication Technologies (ICT) is the key for a 2-way flow of both energy and information in the energy sector and future smart grids. ICT will liberalize the market, leading to a change of business in the energy sector (in a similar way this has been the case for telecom with ICT). ICT will empower people through smart e-metering, new smart e-devices, etc. In France, ERDF (subsidiary of EDF and the largest electricity distribution network in the European Union) has launched a major transformation program that will see the replacement of 35 million electricity meters in France, beginning with a pilot trial of 300,000 meters. In the US, Google has huge ambitions to empower the people with means to see their detailed electricity use in the hopes this knowledge will reduce usage through consumer-owned electricity management devices, such as Google's PowerMeter that uses the iGoogle platform. Today, there is high and promising potential for ICT to become fully pervasive in the future optimization of energy in the built environment - where “energy-efficient smart buildings” will manage their information for an optimal operation of building energy flows and overall building life cycle performance.This webinar will present the recent outcomes of an ongoing European R&D technology roadmap exercise (achieved through EC-funded Coordinated Action REEB - http://www.ict-reeb.eu) for IT to support energy efficiency in buildings, building management systems, neighborhood management systems, etc. REEB was launched in response to the need for coordinating and supporting current and future R&D in Europe, specifically in the area of ICT support to energy efficiency in construction. REEB is currently developing a European-wide agreed vision and roadmap to provide pathways to accelerate the adoption, take-up, development, and research of emerging and new technologies that may radically transform building construction and their associated services in terms of enhanced energy consumption. | 11/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoDigital Assets: Real Time Environments for Real Time Projects | Integrated, interactive and real time environments are becoming the "digital assets" for providing services across the entire lifecycle of today’s projects. Using technologies developed in the gaming and entertainment industries, they are the next evolutionary step in a methodology of adding value through IT that our industry is facing today. | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe Effects of Integrated BIM in the Processes and Business Models | Presented by | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoWi-Fi based Indoor Tracking & Augmented Reality | Presented by Sandeep Jain, Founder & CEO, Kailaz Software | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoDigital Signatures - What Engineering Organizations Need to Know | Presented by Sam Aviram, Engineering Market Manager, ARX and Brian Hase, IT Director, Braun IntertecTo reduce time consuming and expensive paper-based processes, electronic documents are increasingly used in engineering business procedures, from bidding and design through project completion. However, engineers preparing to sign electronic documentation are often forced to reintroduce paper into the workflow once again extendingproject schedules and increasing costs. The webinar will look at digital signatures, what they are, how they can impact an organization's business processes, and how to choose a digital signature solution that best satisfies a specific organization's requirements. The webinar will detail how the implementation of a digital signature improves cycle time, streamlines review processes, secures collaborative information and reduces overall costs. The webinar will also address lessons learned by engineering organizations that are currently utilizing digital signatures. 2008 CETI Winner. | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoManaging Operational, Safety and Compliance Risk with Effective Asset Info Mgmt | Presented by Michael Jordan, NRX GlobalPlant owners and operators manage asset information in many disparate siloed systems that are often not adequately interconnected to support data level interoperability or management of change. Operational risk, safety, and compliance risk grow when changes to assets, materials, and asset information are not distributed across engineering, operations, and maintenance systems; the information plant no longer matches the physical plant. This can result in employees making operations and maintenance decisions based on old, incomplete, or inaccurate asset information putting both employees and operations at increased risk. This webinar will explore the role that effective AIM best practices can have to help minimize operations, safety, and compliance risk over the full asset life cycle. | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoRealizing ROI Using RFID | Presented by Louis Sirico, Founder, IndustryWizards.com and Toby Rush, President, Rush Tracking SystemsRadio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is drastically improving the way companies track materials, tools, and people in capital construction projects. In fact, 75% of companies using RFID technology expect a return on investment within 18 months. RFID technology is proven to provide measureable benefits including:Labor ReductionInventory & Asset VisibilityPhysical SecuritySafer OperationsAchieving Regulatory ComplianceEfficiency GainsBusiness Process ImprovementAdvanced/Automatic Decision SupportYou may have heard about RFID being used for tracking in lay-down yards, tool tracking, people tracking for performance and safety. In this webinar, you’ll learn how RFID technology can be successfully applied to your projects and, most importantly, how to achieve a return on investment (ROI). | 9/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoProgram Management Utilizing LEAN Project Delivery Techniques | While Taiichi Ohno of Toyota is given credit for LEAN Manufacturing, when asked where he got all his ideas his response was “everything I know (about LEAN manufacturing) I learned from reading Henry Ford’s books.” When one reads Henry’s books, studies the Toyota Production System (now referred to by Toyota as the Toyota People System) as well as what the Lean Construction Institute has been implementing, one discovers that most, if not all of the LEAN methods (Kanban, Kaizen, Poka-Yoke) can be utilized to plan and execute projects in “New-Old” ways, achieving uncommon and concurrent cost, schedule, quality and safety results: one discovers that it is not necessary to trade cost for schedule. This webinar will deliver high level awareness of what LEAN is and how some of its systems can be utilized in managing and executing capital as well as expense programs. | 9/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoThe Path to Perfect Power | Presented by Kurt Yeager, Executive Director, Galvin Electricity Initiative & Former President and CEO, EPRI (retired) With Special Guest Moderator - Francis Rabuck, Director, Intelligent Infrastructure Lab, Bentley SystemsThe need for a “smart grid” that best serves our digital economy is receiving executive branch attention and Congressional funding, but efforts are limited by a regulatory structure that impedes innovation and consumer control. The Perfect Power System demonstrates that focusing on consumer needs first and foremost can maximize value by featuring the range of smart technology in a single location and engaging entrepreneurial innovators along the way. Designed by the Galvin Electricity Initiative in keeping with Six Sigma quality methods, the Perfect Power System is based on a smart microgrid – a small, modernized version of the bulk grid — and provides power that meets each end-user’s needs perfectly. The Perfect Power approach can be used for a variety of entities including communities, universities, office parks, and military bases. It is founded on a set of key Principles that are designed to guide electricity policy-making so that it is consumer-driven. During this webinar, you’ll learn more about Perfect Power and the Guiding Principles from Kurt Yeager, executive director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative and long-time president of EPRI. | 9/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoThe Strategic Value of Foresight for Business | Presented by: Tim Mack, President, World Future Society With Special Guest Moderator - Francis Rabuck, Director, Intelligent Infrastructure Lab, Bentley SystemsThe future is a mysterious and often confusing place, but not just because we do not, and cannot, know much about it. The challenge of thinking about the future arises as well from the incredibly ambitious nature of the task. Not only can “The Future” cover every possible factor and dynamic affecting you and your organization, but the unlimited timeline involved in looking at ‘all events following the present’ is simply nonsense. How far ahead should you look? Two months, two years, two decades? While some in the futures field hold forth on trends and events a 100 years or even a 1,000 years in the future, the rapid pace of change today gives us plenty of issues to wrestle with on a 10-20 years timeline, which is the one recommended specifically for organizations just getting started in the foresight business. | 8/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoTime is Money: Tech Tools in Productivity ToolBox to Improve Construction Performance | Presented by Dr. Janaka Ruwanpura, University of CalgaryFinding innovative solutions to improve construction productivity, in terms of labour and management issues, will save billions of dollars and make construction a professional and attractive business. With the rising cost of building materials and a shortage of skilled labour, construction companies are looking for ways to increase efficiencies throughout their operations. The project, titled “Top Ten Targets for Construction Productivity Improvement” headed by the speaker at the University of Calgary, Canada identified and quantified the most critical areas of productivity, through hands-on assessments at various contractors’ construction sites. The “Top Ten Targets for Improving Construction Productivity” project investigates ten strategic areas, including both soft and hard issues of productivity, to develop innovative and sustainable solutions for the construction industry.The ten strategic areas include motivation, supervision, integration, material management, tool time optimization, work practices, communication, schedule optimization, change prediction, and weather impact. Dr. Ruwanpura’s research team has developed many tools and practices that have been successfully tested and implemented in the industry. The ultimate goal of the research project is to develop a “Productivity TOOL BOX” from the ten strategic areas to benefit the construction industry. The outcome of these tools and best practices have improved tool time (as high as 12%), productivity (as high as 30%), worker satisfaction (as high as 80%), motivation and proactive planning. The webinar will highlight the technological tools developed under this project that includes the i-Booth©, Virtual Supervision and automated tracking to Improve performance of construction projects. The University of Calgary developed and pilot tested a novel concept called the “i-Booth©” to aid efficient information flow between site office, site, head office, and other needed stakeholders. Popularity of the remotely accessed cameras in construction industry has also increased drastically in the last few years. Optimized deployment of these cameras with i-Booth© rise the term “Virtual Supervision.” The webinar will also briefly highlight the other tools developed and successfully implemented in the industry by the research team that had improved tool time, productivity, worker satisfaction, motivation and proactive planning. | 8/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoNational Engineers Week Future City Competition | Presented by Carol Rieg, Corporate Foundation Officer, Bentley Systems with Special Guest Moderator - Francis Rabuck, Director, Intelligent Infrastructure Lab, Bentley Systems The competition requires middle school students to create their vision of a future city, first on SimCity computer software and then in large, three-dimensional scale models. The three-student teams, who partner with a teacher and volunteer engineer-mentor, must also write a city abstract and an essay on how engineering can help solve a critical social need. The final step is a public presentation of their city before a panel of judges. | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoRFID, RTLS, IPS, LBS, UWB, WLAN, RF, USID, GPS: Alphabet Soup of Knowing Where Things Are | Presented by Marcus Ruark, Intelligent InSites. On the project site, in a warehouse, or in the office, what are your options for tracking equipment, people, and inventory? Knowing the real-time location of your assets and your people can help improve operations and increase safety. This edition of the Tech Tuesday webinar will provide an overview of today’s location-tracking technologies, the pros and cons of different solutions, and trends in the industry. | 8/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoThe Technology Revolution and the Economic Crisis Passing Through the Crisis of Maturity | Presented by William E. Halal, PhD, George Washington University and Techcast LLC With Special Guest Moderator - Francis Rabuck, Bentley Systems Highlights of the TechCast Project (www.TechCast.org) are presented, showing that breakthroughs in all fields are likely to transform society over the next decade or two. The forecasts are then used to define longitudinal scenarios that show exploding e-commerce and the green revolution are likely pull the global economy out of recession about 2011 and to produce a new economic boom about 2015. At about 2020, the data suggest that second generation computers are likely to arrive and advanced artificial intelligence is likely to automate routine knowledge. These forecasts collectively outline a likely path through the "global crisis of maturity" in which knowledge is readily available through intelligent machines, moving human attention beyond knowledge to consciousness itself in order to address climate change, energy, WMD, and other threats to the emerging global order. Audience participation will be actively encouraged. | 8/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoiRING Version 1.0.0 | Presented by Robin Benjamins, Engineering Automation Manager, Bechtel | 8/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoURS Approach To Systems & Technologies, Enabling Next Generation Productivity Improvement | Presented by Reg Hunter, Director, Material Logistics Solutions (MLS) Group, URS | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoInnovation and Economic Prosperity | Presented by Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Stephen Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation The economic policies implemented by countries reflect the economic doctrines predominantly held by their economists, politicians, and advisers. In the U.S., the prevalent neo-classical and neo-Kenynesian economic doctrines mostly ignore the role innovation and technology play in fostering economic growth, treating them as exogenous to economic growth, falling like “manna from heaven” like some atomic rate of decay. Many of our competitors, however, have embraced a new economics doctrine—innovation economics—that explicitly place science, technology, and innovation as the focal agents of economic growth. These countries—from Britain and Finland to Japan and South Korea—have created national innovation strategies designed specifically to link science, technology, and innovation with economic growth. As a result, competition among governments has become a critical factor in determining global market share across nations. A recent ITIF study comparing the innovation capacity of 40 nations found these countries’ strategies bearing fruit, with the United States falling to 6th in innovation capacity and ranking dead last in enhancing its innovation capacity over the past decade. Please join Rob Atkinson and Stephen Ezell for a discussion of how economic doctrines impact how nations develop their economic and innovation policies, and what the consequences are for a country’s innovation capacity, competitiveness, and economic growth. | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoThe Millennium Project | Presented by Jerome C. Glenn, Executive Director, The Millennium Project. The Millennium Project is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from its several hundred participants to produce various reports and studies, including the annual "State of the Future" and "Futures Research Methodology" series. The purpose of the Millennium Project is to be an international utility to assist in organizing futures research by continuously updating and improving humanity's thinking about the future and making that thinking available for feedback as a geographically and institutionally dispersed think tank. It has been selected among the "100 Best Practices" by UN Habitat, best 7 Foresight Organizations by Battelle Northwest for the U.S. Department of Energy, and among the "Top Picks" by Future Survey, of the World Future Society. During this one hour webinar, Mr. Jerome Glenn will share with us some of the work they are doing, including the 2009 State of the Future. | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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