Technology Task Force

 

MISSION STATEMENT

 

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

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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

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.