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| Wednesday 26th May 2004 |
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| 15:30 |
Registration |
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| 16:00 |
Introduction
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Progress
Report |
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Prof.
Farzad Khosrowshahi, Director of Construct IT |
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| 16:15 |
Intelligent
Environments
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Stephen
Hope, Orange Communications |
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A sustainable city will require
a telecommunications and information infrastructure that is able to deliver
intelligent services for the management of buildings and to aid citizens.
Stephen will explore how modern mobile communication and information systems
can be exploited to aid the management of buildings and the support of
people within a modern city.
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| 17:15 |
Manufacturers
e-working together within an integrated supply chain (Metis) |
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Dr.
James Nyambayo, BRE |
| Metis is a DTI funded project
that is being led by BRE and BCSA and aims to adapt and transfer technologies
for electronic exchange of technical data and supply chain information from
automotive and aerospace industries to engineering firms producing steel
structures for the construction industry. James will present the project
that has developed a web-based platform for e-collaboration of the constructional
steelwork sector's supply chain. |
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| 18:00 |
Tea
and Coffee
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| 18:15 |
Improved job management
and build supply delivery to an SME mobile work force
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Andy
Cornaby, MD, Response Maintenance & Building Services
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Response Maintenance
& Building Services, winners of the National Mobile & Wireless
Technology Innovation Award for 2003, have transformed a traditional manual
labour business by improving job management and build supply delivery
to a mobile work force. Andy will discus how cost and productivity improvements,
delivering an estimated 12 month Return on Investment, and the competitive
edge of improved customer responsiveness have been enabled through the
use of in-cab PDAs with always-on GPRS connections.
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| 19:00 |
Close
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| 19:45 |
Dinner |
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Thursday 27th May 2004
2nd Morning
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| 09:30 |
Improving
business through mobile technology |
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Sarah
Bowden, Arup |
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Opportunities for Mobile IT) is a two-year research and development project
part-funded by the DTI 'Partners in Innovation Scheme'. Led by Arup, in
partnership with BSRIA and Loughborough University, the project aims to
facilitate the realisation of business benefits from the adoption of mobile
information and communication technologies. Sarah will present through case
studies, detailed factual business benefits, barriers, successes and failures. |
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| 10:15 |
Practical
application and integration of Barcode and RFID technology |
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Ron
Manning, Tag-all.com |
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Ron
will initially present a briefing and taster of the practical application
of Barcodes and RFID applied into the commerce and how electronic exchange
standards can be used with this information to enhance the core elements
of project tracking and tracing. He will then discuss getting more out
of simpler mobile devices of how it is possible to use basic 'scan and
record' principles to collect sophisticated hierarchical (directory like)
information and how this allows a broad range of barcodes and RFID devices
to contribute to data needs in the construction industry.
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| 11:00 |
Tea
and Coffee |
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| 11:20 |
Panel
discussion on e-working |
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Panel: |
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Speakers: |
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Graham
Popple, BT |
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Zoe
Turnbull, Shepherd Construction |
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Stuart
Kenny, Liquid Knowledge |
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Prof.
Peter James, SustainIT |
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| Graham will discuss the current
and future trends in communications and mobile technologies along with their
application both within and out of sector. Zoe will present an industry
perspective by discussing Shepherd Construction's experience in their current
adoption of wireless and mobile technologies along with their future strategy.
Stuart will discuss and demonstrate, from an SME's business perspective,
the practical application of such technologies as wireless networks, satellite,
wireless and cable broadband, mobile devices such as phones and XDAs, remote
access software, intranets and extranets. These systems and tools are integrated
to facilitate communications, centralised information sharing and collaboration
facilitating both localised and remote access through multiple interfaces
whilst also providing remote access for systems administration and support.
SustainIT is an initiative of UK CEED (UK Centre for Economic and Environmental
Development), a not-for-profit research centre that conducts research on,
and provides best practice examples of, synergies between ICT and sustainable
development. Being a leading authority, Peter will discuss the economic,
environmental and social aspects of e-working. |
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Lunch |
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| 2nd
Afternoon |
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| 14:15 |
START:
Safety through automated and robotic technologies |
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John
Riehl, START |
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DTI funded programme commenced in January 2003 with the core objective of
delivering improved project and business performance through the use of
ICT to support collaborative working. The programme aims to use the substantial
body of existing research and project-based experience to devise a series
of support mechanisms for live projects. It will use a business led approach
to enable many tools and practices that have been developed through research
but not made any substantial impact, to be diffused into widespread practice.
The project team will present the programme's route map, business case and
status of the live projects. |
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| 15:00 |
Transparent
and consistent information through digital pen and paper |
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Iain
McNab, Taylor Woodrow |
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Taylor Woodrow is trialling a digital
pen and paper system. Iain will discuss the adoption and trialling of
this technology by workers on the Glasgow Harbour project to perform a
variety of functions including recording minutes of meetings, tracking
and logging customer requests, sending emails and snagging. Although in
the early stage, the main advantage is the transparency and consistency
of the information sent, which in turn should avoid duplication.
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| 15:45 |
Sum up and discussion |
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