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Co-Located Events:
 Sponsored by: National Institute of Building Sciences
Facilities Information Council
National BIM Standard
 buildingSMART
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| 7 AIA Continuing Education Learning Units |
In January 2007, NIBS’ Board of Directors unanimously approved the buildingSMART® Alliance charter created to spearhead technical, political, and financial support for advanced digital technology in the real property industry—from concept, design and construction through operations and management. The new public/private initiative expands on goals of the North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI-NA), whose Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) have initiated open standards for national and international links among industry players, and will serve developers and users of Building Information Models (BIMs), the digital tools that are increasingly helping to share highly accurate information throughout a facility’s life cycle. The purpose of the Alliance and the annual conference is to bring together leaders within the building industry that understand and share that vision to work cooperatively.
Thursday, December 13, 2007, 8:00 am – 5:30pm
PROGRAM AGENDA
| 8:00am- 9:00am |
Session 1: Introduction to the buildingSMART alliance
Deke Smith, Executive Director, buildingSMART alliance
Alan Edgar, Workgroup Program Mgr, Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate
Mark E. Reichardt, President, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC)
This session will provide an overview of the role of the buildingSMART alliance in changing business practices and business processes in the real property industry, and the relationships between building information modeling (BIM), Integrated Practice, Lean Construction and other efforts. Who should become an alliance member and the roles of members in these industry efforts will be reviewed, as well as the overall organizational structure of the alliance and its relationship to the international community. |
| 9:00am– 10:00am |
Session 2: Open Standards, Interoperability, Collaboration and other Key Concepts
Kimon Onuma, President, Onuma Design
Dianne Davis, President, AEC Infosystems
Solving today’s problems is one thing; developing solutions that will be sustainable over the next 100+ years is quite another. This session will address some of the technological issues related to sustainable building information, with a focus on the roles and responsibilities of CIOs in making sustainable business decisions that support buildingSMART alliance concepts. |
| 10:00am– 11:00am |
Session 3: Education Forum
Lamar Henderson, Lecturer Catholic University, Moderator
Khee Poh Lam, Director of Graduate Programs, Carnegie Mellon
Terry Beaubois, Director of the Creative Research Lab, Montana State
Education is the key to changing business cultures across an entire industry. It will take years to develop and nurture a buildingSMART culture, but we must act now to begin the process. This session will address the buildingSMART principles that all industry members need to learn, and how education about buildingSMART can and should take place in both university and professional continuing education settings. |
| 11:00am– 1:00pm |
Break: Lunch & Exhibits
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| 1:00pm– 2:00pm |
Keynote: buildingSMART: The Transformation of the Building Industry
Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, HOK, CEO and IAI, International Chair
This session will explore the contrast between the building and manufacturing industries. The building industry is highly fragmented, with many small participants. Manufacturing is highly coordinated with few large participants. Manufacturing continually improves the design, usefulness, and quality of products while the building industry continually declines in design, usefulness, and quality. Why is this true? What constrains the building industry? What can the building industry learn from manufacturing? Mr. MacLeamy will describe how buildingSMART, a strategy developed by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), seeks to emulate the best manufacturing practices in the building industry. MacLeamy believes this strategy must be pursued aggressively to meet the needs of a modern world—or the manufacturing industry will do the job for us. |
| 2:30pm– 3:30pm |
Session 4: Implementing buildingSMART: A Strategic Approach
Deke Smith, Executive Director, BuildingSMART alliance
Michael Tardif, Editorial Director, Design Byline
This session will provide an overview for executives who want to implement an effective buildingSMART strategy in their own firms. Which business issues do executives need to consider to ensure optimum and profitable implementation of buildingSMART concepts? For many, buildingSMART is a nice idea for the future, but current projects must be completed without completely disrupting current business practices and workflow. This session will discuss transition strategies and provide case studies of actual firms to illustrate those strategies. |
| 3:30pm– 5:30pm |
Session 5: buildingSMART alliance Case Studies
David Hammond, Chief, SFCAM Division, U.S. Coast Guard
Stephen R. Hagan FAIA, 2006 Chair, AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community
Patrick Suermann, Maj, USAF, P.E., Rinker Scholar, University of Florida
The session will examine several culture-changing projects that have used BIM as their enabling technology to demonstrate how companies can substantially change the way they do business in the future. Both large and small projects will be reviewed, including some AIA BIM Award winners. The session will highlight the significant savings that are being realized by early adopters and show the significant gains yet to be achieved. It will also address the changes that need to be institutionalized within organizations, and how the National BIM Standard (NBIMS) Capability Maturity Model can be used as a benchmark for progress. |
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