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Planning
» Interactive Project Planning (IPP)
Interactive Project Planning (IPP) was identified through Fiatech’s Voice of the Owner discussions as a means to ensure project scope, responsibilities, interdependencies, costs and schedule are more fully defined and realistic when launched. As a result, Fiatech is in the process of generating a Guide to Interactive Project Planning, which will be discussed in a workshop at the upcoming Fiatech Leadership Forum. Read more
Automated Design
» Supplier Information Exchange with Design to Support Construction (SIE)
The SIE project focused on capturing minimum third-party supplier data deliverables needed to effectively support construction including planning, work-packaging, storage, and maintenance processes. The approach taken was to first gain better understanding of the nature of third-party suppliers, with respect to what governs information generation, and characteristics along with how data is typically transitioned into supporting construction. Read more
Horizon 360 Initiative
The Fiatech Horizon 360 Team, comprised of industry and academic members, continues to make progress scanning the global economy for game changing and incremental technologies and processes. You are invited to help identify them by submitting ideas using the new H360 form. Three opportunities for Fiatech members to learn more about H360 finindgs are coming up which you won’t want to miss. Read more
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Information Management
» Crossrail Data Interoperability Proof of Concept to Support Information
Crossrail is a 118-kilometre (73-mile) railway line under construction in the United Kingdom. Crossrail will need to provide asset information and documentation to two Infrastructure Managers to support commissioning and handover of assets. This project was a proof of concept that tested and successfully demonstrated a potential technical solution based on the ISO15926 standard. Read more
Project Management
» Streamlining Practice Advances
The International Code Council unanimously approved for action during their 2015 Annual Business Meeting and Code Change Hearings a proposal inserting the ICC Guidelines for Replicable Buildings into the appendix of the 2016 International Building Code. When approved in September this action can significantly reduce the time and cost of plans approval for structures that are repetitively built in this country – including retail stores, restaurants, hotels, and residential structures – a significant savings to both building owners and to communities. Read more
» Autocodes, Phase II Completed
In Phase II the AutoCodes Project Team built on the lessons from Phase 1 to: set the framework for future Standards Development Organization (SDO) validation of the digital review process, produce model protocol guidelines (Minimum Modeling Matrix or M3) to serve as a ‘recipe’ for development of reviewable BIM files, set workflow guidelines for the digital review process and expand digital transition education and training for state and local governments. Read more
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Webinar: Strategies to Enhance the Cost & Schedule Performance of Refining & Petrochemical Capital Projects featuring senior capital project professionals from HollyFrontier, Jacobs and Dow Chemical. With Refining & Petrochemical Capital Projects, large and small, now more than ever, the focus is now on improving cost and schedule performance. Click here to register for this free session to be held on Tuesday, September 1 2015, 1-2pm CST.
2015 Leadership Forum (former Member Meeting) is in Glendale, AZ on Sept. 21-23
Reserve your seat today for this newly formatted, highly targeted series of workshops with measurable impact on your organization's performance in the twelve key initiatives driving industry productivity today. (Guaranteed hotel rate ends Aug. 28th so register today!)
Artificial Intelligence Event in Overland Park, Kansas on Oct. 29
Fiatech will be sending out invitations shortly to owners, EPC firms and other leaders in the capital facilities and construction industry to attend a special one day session to look at and assess the applicability of Artificial Intelligence to building design, construction, operations and maintenance. Entitled, “Bring Us Your Problems,” the session is being hosted by Black and Veatch and will include a presentation by IBM on applications of Watson. Contact Bob Wible for more information.
2nd Annual Efficiency through Digital Projects is in London on Nov. 10-11
This conference, co-hosted with COMIT, will include education sessions on "Computing everywhere: Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud", "Intelligent and Automated Job site", "Robotic Engineering" , "Application of Big Data Analytics Cognitive Computing", and many other innovative presentations on the use of technology in the capital construction industry.
Don't miss Tech Tuesday and CETI Winner Webinars! Click here for the upcoming schedule and archived sessions.
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Thanks to the expertise and investment of members, Fiatech projects and engagement opportunities are continuing to increase in the high value advancement for our members and the industry. For a fresh perspective on these powerful activities, click here to view the latest annual report.
Building on your input for our highly successful Member's Meeting, Fiatech has transformed the event into the 2015 Leadership Forum. The Forum features Change Readiness practices built around interactive workshops on 12 key industry initiatives with inspiring "TED Talk" style kick-off presentations. Register to join me in Glendale, Arizona, September 21 - 23 and see how you can be part of Fiatech’s members' leadership for achieving step change advancements with goals of 25% improvement in project costs and schedule predictability, reduction of regulatory review time by 80%, and improved innovation sustained adoption rates by 55%, and more!
Best Regards,
Fiatech Director
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