I
like this quote in the report:
Facilities management
systems should interoperate with building
control systems to enhance
operations and maintenance staff
productivity. As one stakeholder
indicated, "For every dollar you
would save connecting
design and construction, you could save
several times that
connecting O&M controls to the original CAD
and engineering designs.
Downstream is much more important
than connecting design
software to construction [given that
facilities will be in
operation for many years]. The design needs
to have better
connectivity to real world data."
Paul
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Subject: [obix] NIST Interoperability Report Now Available
Last
year, the Building and Fire Research Laboratory and the Advanced Technology
Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
commissioned a study to identify and estimate the efficiency losses in the U.S. capital
facilities industry resulting from inadequate interoperability among
computer-aided design, engineering, and software systems. Although the focus of
the study was on capital facilities-commercial/institutional buildings and
industrial facilities-it was intended to benefit key stakeholders throughout
the construction industry.
The
final report of this study, prepared for NIST by RTI International and the
Logistic Management Institute, estimates the cost of inadequate
interoperability in the U.S.
capital facilities industry to be $15.8 billion per year.
The
intended audiences of this report are owners and operators of capital
facilities; design, construction, operation and maintenance, and other
providers of professional services in the capital facilities industry; and
public- and private-sector research organizations engaged in developing
interoperability solutions.
I
am happy to announce that the 200+ page final report, entitled "Cost
Analysis of Inadequate Interoperability in the U.S. Capital Facilities
Industry," has received NIST Editorial Review Board approval as NIST GCR
04-867 and is now available for immediate downloading in pdf format from the
NIST website:
http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/publications/gcrs/04867.pdf
