NATIONAL ALLIANCE’S TECHNOLOGY TASK FORCE

Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

Tuesday, December 11, 2001

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Attendees:

Andrew Fowell, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Stephen Garnier, Fairfax County, Virginia

Amal Sinha, City of San Jose, California

Rob Sterner, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Robert Wible, NCSBCS

Meeting Minutes

The minutes of Task Force organizational meeting -  November 15, 2001, Washington Dulles Airport Marriott were reviewed and approved as submitted.

The agenda for second Task Force meeting was reviewed and accepted.  

The committee reviewed and provided comments on draft mission statement for Task Force.

The committee reviewed and on the one-year objective drafts that were circulated in advance of the meeting

Revisions to these drafts were to be made overnight and brought back to the Task Group for final adoption at their afternoon session on the 12^th.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE’S TECHNOLOGY TASK FORCE

Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Attendees:

Andrew Fowell, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Rich Geissler, International Alliance for Interoperability

Stephen Garnier, Fairfax County, Virginia

Amal Sinha, City of San Jose, California

Rob Sterner, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

David Adams, AIA, Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission

Robert Wible, NCSBCS

Greg Lindsay, NCSBCS

MORNING SESSION  -  9:00 A.M. - NOON  -  OPENING AND INTEROPERABILITY DEMONSTRATION

International Alliance for Interoperability - Provided a major demonstration of IFC Technology and look at the "business case".  The demonstration included a look at the on-line permitting technology of Accella, Inc. and a review of the Interoperable on-line plans review programs being developed for the Government of Singapore.

Presenters:

Ho Wing Sit, Chief Information Officer, Accella Inc.

Jeffrey D Wix, Director, AEC 3

Jorulv Rangnes, Managing Director, EPM Technology

Dr. Zhong Qi, Vice President Consulting, novaCITYNETS pte ltd

AFTERNOON SESSION - 1:30 - 4:00 P.M.

The committee reviewed, amended, and adopted the mission statement for Task Force.  

The committee reviewed, amended, and adopted the one-year objectives.

The timetable and assignments for the work products was established.

Work items for Alliance Steering Committee & Planning and Coordinating Task Force were noted during the discussions.

The next Technology Task Force meeting was set to occur on February 20 and 21, 2001 to be held in Washington, DC.

Technology Task Force MISSION STATEMENT

(as ADOPTED at the December 12, 2001 Meeting in Atlanta, GA)

To enable the nation’s construction industry to build, faster, better, safer and at less cost the Technology Task Force will: 

Assemble, develop and demonstrate a set of tools to the National Alliance, jurisdictions and construction industry that increase the effective use of information technology in the nation’s building regulatory process.

PRIORITIZED 2002 WORK ITEMS FOR THE Technology TASK FORCE

(as ADOPTED at the December 12, 2001 Meeting in Atlanta, GA)

1.   Collect data and make available via various media, an inventory of the I.T. being used and the funding mechanisms adopted to support them.  What is out there, costs, and where state and local governments are in the IT process

2.   Distribute models and best practices – case studies, models, with focus on I.T. programs from the Streamlining Project.

3.   Outline a realistic vision of a transformed building regulatory process that maximizes the effective use of information technology in e-governance.

4.      Create as a tool for jurisdictions, a minimum set of criteria for hardware and software that should be asked for when obtaining or implementing new information systems.

5.   Draft outline of a demonstration project of automated code compliance and other streamlined regulatory systems.   (Proof of concept).

6.   Identify those political, cultural and financial issues that affect  the ability to meet the National Alliance’s Vision  Statement and forward them to the Planning And Coordination Task Force.

7. Draft outline of  a nation-wide state-managed secure database of building designs and evacuation plans of critical structures for use by emergency response personnel.

Timetable and assignments

Work Items for the Steering Committee/Planning Committee

·        Advocating the products of Technology Task Force to jurisdictions.

·        Code group involvement and ownership of rule set applicable to the building code.

·        Architecture Association involvement in establishing guidelines and policy for use of IFCs.

·        Provide proper funding and scheduling.

·        Sponsor technology demonstration.