By National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Federal Facilities Council, Federal Facilities Council Technical Report No. 144
ISBN-10: 0309076439
ISBN-13: 9780309076432
ISBN-10: 0309510465
ISBN-13: 9780309510462
Available and rising details applied sciences carry the promise of bettering the standard of federal offices; aiding employee productiveness; enhancing capital asset administration, programming, and choice making; decreasing venture supply time; and altering how constructions are built and operated. Federal organizations, although, face an important problem in deciding upon applied sciences that might justify the funding of time, funds, and assets, may have the flexibleness to evolve to altering situations over the long term, and won't be out of date sooner than they're deployed. to start to deal with those demanding situations, the Federal amenities Council (FFC) subsidized a symposium entitled "Emerging details applied sciences for amenities vendors: study and useful purposes" on the nationwide Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on October 19-20, 2000.
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Project participants will cover the cost of the research and deployment, which will allow for differential allocation of intellectual property that provides the profit motive for company participation. We expect some projects and products to be made generally available, but the participants will decide what will be disseminated freely and what will be proprietary, licensed, or sold. The five members of the former Owner/Operator Forum (Air Products and Chemicals, BASF Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, DuPont Company, and Merck & Company) recently joined FIATECH en masse.
It turns out that few people and few organizations invest much in standards, although we talk about their importance. Yet it is at that bottom layer that the foundation for progress is laid. BENEFITS AND COSTS OF RESEARCH Summary of a Presentation by Robert Chapman Economist, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fully integrated and automated project processes (FIAPP) technologies are characterized by one-time data entry, interoperability with design, construction, and operation processes, and user-friendly input and output techniques.
PTO and GSA officials will soon be able to develop a comparative analysis of the completed scenarios to arrive at the best all-around solution. They will be using a decision-assistance package called Expert Choice. Participants will be brought together and asked to respond to a series of questions dealing with decisions made during the simulations and the perceived outcomes. Using Expert Choice, they will be able to spot trends, pitfalls, unanticipated consequences, and opportunities. It should assist the move team to rank the scenarios generated and to further optimize the moving process.