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NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR BUILDING REGULATORY REFORM IN THE DIGITAL AGE

WELCOME TO THE DRAFT INTEROPERABILITY STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND MATERIALS FOR THE "SUMMIT ON STREAMLINING THE BUILDING REGULATORY PROCESS THROUGH INTEROPERABILITY" - SEPTEMBER, 24, 2003, DOWN TOWN ASSOCIATION, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

NCSBCS and the Alliance are pleased to host on this website the following technical materials that were developed for the Summit:

• National news release of August 26, 2003 on the Summit
• Summit Meeting Agenda – September 24, 2003
• Objectives of the Summit
• New York City’s Vision of Interoperablity for Capital Facilities and Building Regulatory Process
• Draft Interoperabilty Statement
• Draft High Level Building Regulatory Process Diagram
• Process Functional Description and Services
• Listing of Common Data
• Detailed Process Documentation
• FIATECH Executive Summary to Capital Facilities Roadmap

September 24, 2003, invited representatives from the software, building regulatory and construction communities will assemble in New York City to participate in a summit meeting to speed the development of technologies and processes that can be used to streamline the nation’s building regulatory process through interoperability.

The summit is co-sponsored by the National Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in the Digital Age, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), FIATECH, NCSBCS, New York City Department of Buildings and the States of New York and New Jersey.

As a Summit registrant, an Alliance or NCSBCS/AMCBO member or as a visitor to this website, these mateirals are available for you to download or review on line. Please note that those work products produced for the Summit under funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been so labeled as such and consequently those documents are in the public domain.

NCSBCS, following the Summit will post on the Alliance portion of its website information and materials that were generated at the September 24, 2003 Summit meeting. For more information contact: rwible@ncsbcs.org or cfitch@ncsbcs.org

The purpose of the Summit is to:  Speed the development of technologies and requirements needed to advance the creation of a state-of-the-art integrated and interoperable building regulatory system by brining together software industry, building regulatory officials and the construction industry to:

• Share an assessment of the opportunities, priorities and challenges for streamlining and automating the building regulatory process
• Present and refine data requirements and key principles for achieving the needed interoperability of hardware and software used in the regulation and design of buildings

• Present and define an interoperability statement that can be included in government procurements of hardware and software used for codes administration and enforcement

• Discuss common actions that can be taken by participants to speed the use of interoperable hardware and software by state and local governments.