FIATECH

It is a collection of 16 recently published and free downloadable future visions for our sector / industry from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Europe, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the USA. You will see that issues related to ICT and Construction play a somewhat dominant role in many of those future visions.

In the same page in the CIB website you can search for other outlook publications by choosing a keyword: - the keyword ICT will produce 11 additional outlook publications.

ICT in Future Visions for Construction

A collection of outlook reports on the CIB website: http://www.cibworld.nl/site/about_cib/outlooks.html

There is also a searchable library of over 9900 papers and proceedings at: http://www.irb.fraunhofer.de/CIBlibrary/browse.jsp

At the urging of and active participation by FIATECH, this report, prepared for NIST by RTI and LMI, estimates the cost of inadequate interoperability in the U.S. capital facilities industry to be $15.8 billion per year. This research study identifies the economic impacts to the construction industry of imperfect software interoperability.

This report provides the, first ever, thorough, economic analysis of the cost of imperfect interoperability of data exchange in the capital facilities industry, including a complete economic analysis of the benefits of seamless flow of information across the entire life cycle of a capital project.

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These are the Proceedings of the First International CIB Conference on Improving Construction and Use Through Integrated Design Solutions, held in June 2009 in Helsinki, Finland. This was the first conference of the IDS Priority Theme with an open Call for Papers and Acceptance of Papers. This was also the beginning of a series of International events to be organised as biannual conferences in several parts of the world. A general feedback has been that the title of the Theme should not be about design only. The future events will use the term Integrated Design and Delivery Solutions (IDDS).

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As part of our ongoing effort to provide cutting-edge intelligence on Interoperability and BIM to the industry, McGraw-Hill Construction Research & Analytics has just released the third in its ongoing series of BIM-themed reports, entitled The Business Value of BIM: Getting Building Information Modeling to the Bottom Line.

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The first international conference of CIB’s new Priority Theme: Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) took place in June 2009 in Espoo, Finland. The main themed technical sessions included: Competence requirements for IDS; Utilisation of building information models; Integrated Processes; and Sustainability.

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The ICT Vision Planning Workshop, held on 26th January 2009 at Loughborough University, aimed to identify possible futures that the construction industry might face and to start developing a construction IT vision for the year 2030. 28 world leading experts from different disciplines were brought together for this workshop.

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The 2004 Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) report, Collaboration, Integrated Information and the Project Life Cycle in Building Design, Construction and Operation (WP-1202), makes clear that there is a compelling need to improve project delivery. "Building owners, particularly those represented within CURT, regularly experience project schedule and cost overruns." The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study Cost Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities Industry (NIST GCR 04-867) makes clear that all stakeholders in the capital facilities industry - designers, contractors, product suppliers and owners - are wasting a huge amount of money looking for, validating and/or recreating facility information that should be readily available.

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The built environment is a significant part of our national wealth. The built environment is the physical environment created by people. It consists of the buildings and all networks serving the flow of traffic, energy, water, waste and digital information, and the assemblies, equipment and (built) natural elements connected to them.

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