Fiatech Video Presentation Series

Toys for Techies - 11-15-11

Presented by: Francis Rabuck, Director, Technology Research, Bentley Systems He’s back. You don’t want to miss the 5th annual “Toys for Techies” webinar presentation for 2011. Fran Rabuck (aka Santa) from Bentley Systems will be continuing the annual tradition of a review of all the hot toys, gadgets and gizmos for the holiday season. You don’t want to miss this, because not only will he give you ideas for those people that are “hard to buy for,” but he will give you ideas for cool gifts to pu...

Automated Code Plan Checking Tool--Proof-Of-Conc...

In March 2011 the Fiatech Regulatory Streamlining Committee launched AUTOCodes, a proof-of-concept (POC) project to develop automated code-checking rule sets. The International Code Council (ICC), some U.S. jurisdictions, and independent software developers are collaborating on the initial phase of the project that will demonstrate the viability of using software rule sets to check the accessibility and egress provisions of the ICC International Building Code. To achieve this, the project team...

SmartHat: Self-Monitoring Alert and Reporting Te...

Presented by: Jochen Teizer, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology In the past two decades, more than 26,000 U.S. construction workers have died at work. That equates to approximately five construction worker deaths every working day. Of these fatalities, 25 percent involved heavy equipment, most being categorized as struck-by incidents. It is assumed that significant improvements can be gained in construction safety once technology is applied to existing safety management pract...

20110614 Next Level Hospital Planning

ProStar Online

In the United States, more than 20 million excavations are performed annually. By law, excavators must communicate information about planned excavations to the utilities that have underground facilities in the area through a state ticket management and call center system called, "Call Before You Dig" or 811. The current system employs antiquated practices and is reactive and disjointed. It fails to store any data gathered during the utility locating and marketing process, thereby failing to pr...

Reasons We're Part of FIATECH

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Instrumenting Civil Infrastructure to Increase i...

Presented by: Dr. Mario Bergés, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University **Recipient of the 2010 CETI Award in "Outstanding Early Career Researcher" Category Dr. Bergés is interested in instrumenting our civil infrastructure to increase its resilience, adaptiveness, and self-monitoring capabilities. He is interested in making use of cost-effective sensor systems to automatically create models and generate insights that can be used to improve the behavior of infrastructure systems, preve...

Life Cycle Assessment Methods for Complex System...

Presented by: Michael Lepech, Assistant Professor, Stanford University **Recipient of the 2010 CETI Award in Technology & Knowledge Enabled Workforce Category This ongoing academic/industrial partnership program introduces graduate students at Stanford University and industrial partner firms to the methods of life cycle assessment and the technology tools that can be used to carry these studies out. Started in October 2008, more than 150 Stanford graduate students and 28 corporations have part...

Life Cycle Building Data Management

Presented by: Igor Starkov, President, EcoDomus **Recipient of the 2010 CETI Award in Life Cycle Data Management and Information Integration Category The Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center project consisted of two buildings, a $68 million health professions education building and a $60 million medical research and education building, plus a central utility plant. The university wanted to receive a complete set of building information and use it for facility management. The computerize...