Introducing

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Introducing
Dik Spekkink Spekkink CR consultancy
research in the building industry
Design management Quality management Labour
conditions ICT policy
The Netherlands
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Involvement in ICT
Dutch Council of Building Technology Policy

• Quick Scan ICT in the building industry

Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs

• Next Generation Scenario

Dutch Building Research Establishment

• Research agenda Vision ICT and building

• Framework for ICT policy for the organization of
  construction firms

BouwNed

• Synchronizing 6 initiatives in the field
  ofdevelopment of information structuresfor the
  building industry

PAIS in building and infrastructure
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I could tell you about all kinds of things .

• As to the future of ICT and building

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I could tell you about

• smart buildings, smart houses, smart roads
• incorporation of ICT-applications and services,
  in order to achieve higher quality of living and
  working

• Safety devices
• alarm
• fire and smoke detection
• burglary detection
• Intelligent steering
• of services
• heating
• air conditioning
• lighting
• Communication
• internet
• on line working
• telecom

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I could tell you about

• embedded intelligent devices in building parts
  and components
• for online control and maintenance
• the window frame that beeps when it needs
  painting
• advanced (remote) control of service
  installations

Technology is available clients will demand it
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I could tell you about

• how ICT enables end users to participate in the
  design and building process

• how ICT enables us to manage that process

• the role of Virtual Reality in that process

• future owners designing their own houses on
  line with standardized components

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I could tell you about .

• how thus under the influence of ICT the supply
  chain turns into a supply star

project developer
consumer
architect
contractor
suppliers
installers
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I could tell you about

• virtual communities

• Future inhabitants get to know each
• other on line
• They can follow the developments
• Choose from options offered
• Common purchasing of goods, furniture,
  gardening services, insurance

unexpected large impact on the building process
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I could tell you about

• how ICT finally will allow us to match demand
  (principal end users) and supply (building
  industry)
• how simulation allows us to test a design
  against agreed performance specifications and
  building legislation
• how this will help us to substantially decrease
  failure costs (for both the client and the
  industry)

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I could tell you about

• how as a result of all this, participants in
  the supply star will in future be client
  oriented service providers
• aimed at individual consumers demands

individual design by mass customization
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I could tell you about

• how ICT allows us to design build almost
  anything

• BLOB-design
• Integration of CAD and CAM
• Industrial production of components in series of
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• Standardization of production processes, instead
  of products

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Icould tell you about

• project extranets / project hosting

concurrent engineering
document management
workflow management
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I could tell you about

• one step further
• central project database / object model

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I could tell you about

• how all participants in the supply star will
  implement comprehensive Enterprise Resource
  Planning (ERP) applications
• how electronic B2B communication will be fully
  integrated in these ERP applications

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I could tell you about

• how information flows in all stages of the
  buildingprocess will be linked

• how this enables us toprofit more from built
  upexperience data

• life long earning

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I could tell you about

• how the emphasis will shift more from the
  actual construction to the design and preparation
  stages
• that buildings will be built virtually first
• how the actual construction activity will
  consist of bringing together individualized,
  prefabricated modules
• how this may help us to finally deliver
  buildings with zero defects and minimal failure
  costs

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I could tell you about

• how in future probably only a few workers will
  occupy the building site
• equipped with hand held devices to communicate
  with the back office, clients and suppliers
• paperless building sites

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but I will not tell you all that

• because it will not happen if we dont organize
  first !

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State of the art

• Technology is already available
• ICT is developing very fast
• Building industry a user, no developer
• slow adaptor
• Computer applications still dont communicate
• Both internal and external

Organizational problem!
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Back to basics

• Building industry has to solve its own
  organizational problems
• First organize, then computerize!

To be able to profit optimally from ICT, the
industry needs to develop an information
structure
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B2B communication
Demand (design)
Supply
subscribing
delivering
comm. between demand and supply matching
functional demands and technical specifications
comm. between e.g. contractors and suppliers
about specified products
communication between design partners about
objects
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Different structures needed
B2B
specifications contracts / confirmations delivery
/ acceptation invoice / payment
Demand (design)
Supply
Process (project management)
Standards for formal transaction communication
Protocols for exchanging design (product) data
Content (product data)
co-engineering
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Different structures needed
B2B
Demand (design)
Supply
Process (project management)
Standards for formal transaction communication
Standards for formal transaction
communication Protocols for exchanging design
(product) data
Content (product data)
bidding orders / biddings procurement / delivery
orders / delivery / acceptance / invoice /
payment
Libraries of building objects and their
typical properties
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Different structures needed
B2B
Demand (design)
Supply
Process (project management)
Standards for formal transaction communication
Standards for formal transaction
communication Protocols for exchanging design
(product) data
Content (product data)
Libraries of building objects and their typical
properties
Unique codes for unique, off the shelf products
E-commerce
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Different structures needed
B2B
Demand (design)
Supply
Process (project management)
Standards for formal transaction communication
Standards for formal transaction
communication Protocols for exchanging design
(product) data
Content (product data)
Libraries of building objects and their
typical properties
Unique codes for unique, off the shelf products
needs synchronizing
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Different structures needed
VISI
EC Standaard ETIM/ITI
BAS ETIM/ITI CROW
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International links

• E-commerce (EC Standaard Bouw and ETIM/ITI)
  international EAN standard
• Object libraries (BAS Lexicon. CROW object
  library and ETIM/ITI object library)on the
  basis of ISO-PAS 12006-3
• BAS Lexicon turning into an international effort
  (CONCUR, E-construct, ICIS)

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Bottlenecks

• It still takes several years of hard work to
  develop an operational information structure
• The building industry is more and more growing
  into an international business

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Bottlenecks

• It will only work when a large network of
  companies and organizations use them

Its no use to be able to communicate digitally
in an advanced way, when you have nobody to
communicate with
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Conclusions

• ICT can change / improve building industry
  radically
• Technology is available, but building industry is
  slow adaptor
• First industry should develop a uniform
  information structure first organize, then
  computerize
• Which should be an international effort

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What needs to be done?

• If anything

• On the basis of ISO PAS 12006-3

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What needs to be done?

• Subsequently

• Equally or even more important

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Thank you very much for your attention