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| Wednesday 11th May 2005 |
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| 13:30 |
Registration |
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| 14:00 |
Introduction
& Progress Report
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Peter
Rebbeck, Chairman of Construct IT |
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Dr.
Jason Underwood, Manager of Construct IT |
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| 14:15 |
AVANTI:
Increasing Collaboration
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Mervyn
Richards, AVANTI Project Team |
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AVANTI is a DTI funded programme
that 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 has adopted 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.
In this first session Mervyn and Steve will initially provide an overview
of the AVANTI project. This will be followed by the presentation through
two case studies - £300 million PFI hospital project being developed
by Taylor Woodrow in St Helens and an Enfield retail development being
developed by Slough Estates - the issues and problems arising in attempting
to increase collaborative activity and the definition and acceptance of
a standard method and procedure for facilitating increased collaboration.
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| 15:45 |
Tea
and Coffee |
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| 16:15 |
Collaborative
Workspaces of the Future |
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Terrence
Fernando, University of Salford |
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several major European companies to define a 10 year vision and a roadmap
for collaborative workspaces of the future. This session will summarise
outcome of this roadmap project and research conducted by the Future Workspaces
Research Centre at Salford in implementing future collaborative workspaces.
He will discuss how middleware technologies, computational steering techniques,
optical tracking, tele-immersive interfaces and simulation technologies
can be brought together to create highly interactive collaborative workspaces.
Several video clips will be shown to demonstrate the vision and the current
state-of-the-art in collaborative workspaces. |
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| 17:00 |
RFID Application in Construction |
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Kiram
Esmail, BRE
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The main findings
of a recent DTI review undertaken by BRE is that tagging and wireless
ICT technologies will have significant impact on all industries sectors,
with retail being the main driver, towards improving process efficiency
and increasing productivity of supply chains. The projected adoption of
RFID applications is likely to grow 10 fold by 2008, e.g. the USA retail
market RFID expenditure is predicted to grow from of $91.5 million in
2003 to $1.3 billion in 2008. Primarily, focused towards applications
in logistics tagging pallets and container to improve delivery part of
supply chain. This is likely to be followed by smaller or simpler tags
(smart labels) in combination of sensors to enable stock management. Last
year construction had the largest % growth in the application of RFID
in the UK. The BRE is leading several consortiums on research projects
and is developing industrial applications of RID in manufacturing, tracking,
policing the supply chain and asset management. Ranjit will give an overview
on the current application of RFID in construction with a live demonstration
of the technology.
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| 17:45 |
Academic Brokering Workshop |
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Chaired
by: Rod Howes, CIC
Roger Blundell, DTI
Chimay Anumba, Loughborough University |
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session will start with Roger providing a strategic overview of IT in Construction
(ITC) in the light of major recent developments such as the DTI technology
programme, National Technology Programme (NTP) for UK Construction and the
leading academic discussing the future funding of ITC research in academic
institutions by means of the funding councils and RAE2001/2008. This will
be followed by Rod interviewing both Roger and Ghassan regarding their views
and ideas on the future development of CIT and the potential actions for
effective collaboration between industry and academe. Responses and opinions
will then be invited from the floor. |
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| 18:45 |
Close
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| 19:30 |
Dinner |
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Thursday 12th May 2005
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AVANTI
Standard Method & Procedure (SMP) Workshop |
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Mervyn
Richards, AVANTI Project Team |
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The Standard
Method and Procedure (SMP) workshop will cover:
1. The argument for collaboration.
2. Measure benefits for the whole supply chain and the client.
3. The Common data Environment - an Extranet capability where data can
be collected, managed, shared and disseminated ]between the teams.
4. The need for data format standards including data naming convention
and file naming conventions.
5. 2D versus 3D - Document/paper centric versus a data centric environment.
The SMP has
been developed and implemented on a number of projects ranging from a
few million to multi million pound projects. The subject usually raises
many questions and discussions as to the best way to organize data. The
first thing that needs to be established is the organization of the data
for the total team and not just the benefit of the individual. This discussion
usually raises the main problem of culture versus technology.
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| 10:30 |
Tea
and Coffee |
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| 11:00 |
Unified
Design of Work Environments |
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Andrew
Harrison, DEGW |
| Globalisation
and new mobile communications technologies call for new models of workplace
and property management. New types of businesses are emerging and traditional
organisations are completely re-inventing themselves. Access to information,
speed and flexibility become key success criteria. Nomadic working styles
and distributed teams call for the utilisation of modern ICT to enable the
collaboration of teams in physically and temporary distributed locations.
However, the question arises of how to raise the physical office infrastructure
to new levels of quality and integrate computer virtual environments into
daily work practices. Andrew will present a unified approach for the design
of work environments that consist of physical as well as virtual space concepts,
based on research undertaken during the Sustainable Accommodation in the
New Economy (SANE) EC research project. |
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| 11:45 |
AVANTI:
Design Management Procedure (DMP) Workshop |
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Mervyn
Richards, AVANTI Project Team |
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The Design Management Procedure
(DMP) focuses on the management of data and the delivery of data in a
timely fashion. The workshop will address:
1. The required management structure
of the teams.
2. Roles and responsibilities.
3. Control mechanisms - Review, change control, cost and time
4. Programming/planning - individual deliveries, coordinated delivery
through out the teams and integrated against the construction programme.
5. Compliance of data to the agreed standards.
6. Exception management.
The role of the Project design
manager, a constructers rather than a designers role, has become fundamental
to the successful deliver of the project in both time and cost terms.
It is no longer a reactive progress chasing activity bur a proactive management
function assisting in the timely deliver of data to the require quality
and the removal of blockages to the delivery.
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| 13:15 |
Sum up and discussion |
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| 13:30-14:30 Lunch |
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