FIATECH

Presented by Thomas Phillips, Code Compliance Manager, Target Corporation

**Recipient of the 2009 CETI Award in Automated Design

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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.

Presented by Kenny Ingram, Global Product Director, IFS and Christian Klingspor, Global Product Manager, Engineering and Maintenance, IFS

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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.

Presented by Andrew Davies, Managing Director, 4hSolutions Limited

Co-Presented by George Brake, Senior Developer, 4hSolutions Limited

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A difficult financial climate has put the Construction industry under real pressure, so in order to maintain their growth, and in some cases even survive, they need to find new and better ways of working to win new business, meet their Health and Safety Executive (HSE) objectives and drive down costs.

The latest technological developments offer the construction industry innovative ways of solving its ever-changing issues: RFID-based tool tracking entered the market some years ago. But as well as making the obvious cost reductions, the smart Construction companies are realizing that by actually managing their assets using RFID technology they can add profitability, Health & Safety compliance and customer service to the list of benefits.

Using a combination of the latest technologies - RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), GPS, mobile computing and web-based applications - asset management can now be undertaken reliably and rapidly, anytime and anywhere. This webinar will explore how, when implemented properly, end-to-end asset management can meet the needs of today’s cost and safety conscious mobile workforce.

The webinar features case studies from two of the UK’s leading construction companies: the Byrne Group www.byrnegroup.co.uk and Morgan Sindall www.morgansindall.com

The Byrne Group project, which also won the Plant Services Best Practice in Management award 2010, is an integrated solution that combines RFID technology to manage, track and get visibility of Byrne’s Plant, stock and equipment with COINS Plant Manager software to automate the Issue and Return of these assets.

Morgan Sindall’s RFID solution was designed to be an error-proof system for managing the on-going maintenance inspection schedule of or lifting and plant safety equipment at its many construction sites. Morgan Sindall now uses RFID tags and handheld computers to manage assets and record inspection results directly in the field.

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