RE: [obix] NIST Interoperability Report Now Available

A rough draft I jotted off over the weekend. . 
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tc

From: Paul Ehrlich [mailto:] 

Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:49 AM
To: 
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Subject: RE: [obix] NIST 
Interoperability Report Now Available

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

 

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:21 AM
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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

 

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