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Thursday, June 9, 2011 7:30-8:30am Continental Breakfast/Networking 8:30-8:45am Welcome & Conference Introduction Chris Pinckney, Chief Information Officer, Psomas 8:45-9:30am AEC with its Head in the Clouds Chris Pinckney, Chief Information Officer, Psomas Companies from all walks are looking at and hearing about “the cloud” from just about everywhere. Peers, company leadership, TV commercials, even the person you just met who finds out you are in IT starts talking to you about that ‘cloud stuff.’ This session dives into the myths and realities of cloud services - What has worked, what has not and what the future holds for our industry from both the managed services as well as the client services points of view. 9:30-10:30am The Future of Design Practice and Delivery VDC, BIM and IPD are transforming practice. This transformation has implications for IT strategies. Panelists- Architect IT Leader, Contractor, Owner’s representative, Technology Provider- will share their insights into practice changes and pair this with strategic and practical advice for the IT leader on how to be an agent for change. Beyond the pilot project, the real radical change is now taking place in the mainstream. Panelists will discuss now-standard IT-related contract language, share how to harness the power of data to support better decision-making, and identify which collaboration technologies to implement. The panelists will leave the audience with a checklist to put these strategies into action, and resources to draw from to learn how to do so. 10:30-10:45am Morning Break As technology advances at a rapid pace, legal issues relating to copyright violations, trademark issues, the use of Facebook and other on-line social media, as well the use of internet-related content become increasingly prevalent. Failure to understand the legal ramifications related to technology can lead to disputes and litigation. This discussion will include legal issues and potential liability related to the use of technology in the design and construction phases of the building process. It will also incorporate a discussion of IPD, BIM, Green Building Design, and other related technological processes and the potential pitfalls and legal consequences. We know that positive change can be just as stressful as negative change because with every gain there is a tradeoff. Instituting changes in technology often result in resistance and anxiety for employees who do not have the expertise of IT professionals. This session addresses the challenges while offering techniques for facilitating transitions. Participants will gain a better understanding of the reactions they can expect and specific skills for handling the issues with which they're presented. Because human dynamics are complicated, how such initiatives are managed spill over into what employees think they can expect from other major changes. The creation of integrated 3D building models is surprisingly related to source control systems used to develop complex computer code collaboratively: multi-participant, multi-objective, intricately interdependent. Over the last four years, Gehry Technologies (GT) has been extensively using source control systems for the delivery of 3D models of increasingly integrated projects. The projects range in scale from a few designers to a few hundred designers, across broad ranges of disciplines and geographies. This presentation will showcase three projects by leading design firms in which GT used distributed source control to create new efficiencies and methods of collaboration, to deliver unprecedented projects. CONCURRENT FOCUS SESSIONS 2:15-3:15pm Collaborative BIM in the Cloud Tony Ryan, CEO, Asite LLC and More McCormack, Assoc. AIA, National Reprographics, Inc. As many are transitioning from traditional CAD standards to a BIM methodology and IPD standards, the presenters will describe the role that collaboration beyond the firewall can play in this environment. This type of collaboration could well be the next step in reducing the myriad of inefficiencies that exist in the construction industry. The presentation will also include a discussion of specific roadblocks as well as enablers to team collaboration in the 21st century and the role cloud computing platforms that have native support for both open and proprietary BIM formats can play in the future.
Apple products are sexy, trendy, and hot. They’re also powerful technologies and a great fit for various areas within an AEC firm. Newer applications and methodologies make it easier than ever to integrate platforms together. FRCH has been running PCs and Macs side by side for years. Our experience with product testing, environment refinement and support of a large Mac user-base has helped us become experts in assimilating Apple products into our workplace. This session will focus on some of the specific technologies and practices that have allowed FRCH to provide top-notch service and support for our Mac users. 3:15-3:30 Afternoon Break Knowledge Architecture has built over 20 social intranets for architects and engineers in the last 18 months. In this workshop, Christopher Parsons will share what Knowledge Architecture has learned about developing expertise, sharing project and client intelligence, and engaging employees through social intranets. Discussion topics to include: best practices for using social tools such as blogs, wikis, and status updates to build community, the benefits of integrating intranets with marketing, financial, and human resource systems to provide portals for retrieving critical information, and proven strategies for managing information and sharing knowledge BIM to FIM: Enabling the Digital Revolution in Project Development & Operation Newforma For its first seven editions, the Newforma project information management solution consisted of one product, Newforma® Project Center. With the release of Eighth Edition, added functionality and three new products expand your ability to control documents, manage project images, work remotely, share project folders, develop and act on meeting minutes, manage contract and document changes during construction, relate the “I” in BIM to project information outside of the model, and much more. This high-level overview shows how AEC professionals are using the Newforma PIM solution to connect people, processes and information as never before. SharePoint This presentation will cover a real owner/operator prospect looking to use SharePoint websites for a $500M
8:45-9:30am The Heart of the Cloud Eric McKinney, AIA, Firmwide Director of Applications, Gensler Once you blow away the vapor, you're left with what's real. How do you develop a strategic approach to utilizing the systems you have in place now while integrating the capabilities that are starting to emerge from the “cloud”? What should you be asking for of your key software vendors? We'll take a look inside Gensler and our development labs as we reveal the technologies we are leveraging to connect our people, teams, partners and clients to each other and the information systems that lie at the heart of our businesses. 9:30-9:45am Morning Break Unified Communication: A Rich Opportunity for IT and Business Globalization and customer expectations have evolved project delivery to include people and skills from around the globe. Advancement in technology has reduced the barriers of communication & collaboration and it has minimized the need for travel. Having an architect in the London, structural engineer in Toronto, financier in New York, and the customer in Las Vegas will be the norm in Halcrow’s global delivery model. Through the use of Microsoft Lync and Cisco Unified Communication platforms Halcrow will empower its global skills and people in over 100 global offices in delivering services to its customers at the very best quality and value. This session will present Halcrow’s journey toward unified communications and lessons learned. Technology Frameworks for Project Teams Successful AECO businesses must continually evolve to overcome new legal, social and technical challenges. For example, CIOs today are busy evolving their technology infrastructures to accommodate increased virtualization and a more mobile workforce. Production-related aspects of this evolution include helping project teams collaborate more effectively while promoting process improvements. How does your existing technology stack accommodate growing demands for transparency, accountability, complexity and communication as the information to be managed explodes in volume? This talk explores these topics in the context of Newforma customers who have implemented a project information management (PIM) strategy in their firms using Newforma Project Center. 10:45-11:45am Integrating Your Virtual World Wes Peper, Corporate IT Manager, Coffman Engineers, Inc. This session will revolve around a case study of the methods Coffman Engineers, Inc. utilized to create their virtual environment along with some of the inexpensive tools they used to protect their environment. Wes Peper will go over best practices and show how they were able to create a complete disaster recovery solution with two R710 Dell servers and one Dell MD3000i SAN Array in each office by maximizing their resources. He will also review over their disaster recovery system which includes site-to-site replication and their processes for moving from tape backup to disk in an organization that keeps project drawings forever. At Coffman Engineers, Inc. they have not had any downtime in years. They did this by being proactive instead of being reactive. With an almost 100% virtualized infrastructure, solid DR solution, WAN Optimization, and good monitoring system they believe you can be on the leading edge without being on the bleeding edge of technology. Walking the Talk - Marketing as Aspiration; IT as Authenticity 11:45-12:30pm Special Closing Presentation Bring your ideas, challenges, and questions to either of these interactive group discussions. We’ll bring the lunch! Here is your chance to talk about issues raised during the conference and interact with the presenters in an open but directed forum. Conference attendees consistently tell us they place a high value on the informal learning and relationship-building that happens spontaneously in these working groups. Working groups are limited to 25 participants. Intranet Best Practices Virtual Desktops
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Program Management for Collaboration, Standardization, and Overall Success
Originally Aired on: June 23, 2010
To deliver successful projects consistently with appropriate value and return for all stakeholders, the AEC industry needs to review the personal and contractual processes, relationships, and dynamics at play among owners, contractors, designers, and the entire supply chain.
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