Research Agenda Development This appendix contains the full set of contributions made by the participants in the charrette, to the development of the research agenda, as captured during the charrette. The material contained in this section was collected through Formal Input Sheets No. 4 submitted during the charrette. It also contains material collected through the facilitated plenary discussion held during Session 9 of the charrette. These comments have not been edited beyond basic spelling, grammar, and formatting modifications, and reflect ideas as originally presented by the contributors for discussion in the charrette. Consequently, some redundancy was unavoidable.
Consolidated Results from Charrette Formal Input Sheets •
Can we develop planning and design systems that support the innovative design/planning process while improving the quality and efficiency through technology-based solutions?
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What types of collaborative visualization environments are needed to support project planning that encourages improved input from all project participants?
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What are the visualization and collaborative environments that allow us to improve engineering and architectural education?
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Can we improve the sustainability of project delivery and operation through improved planning tools and visualization/collaborative tools?
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How can we reengineer the process to improve performance and improve through use of technology?
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How to integrate the different problem-based approaches? Infrastructure – data fusion/management technology.
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How to coordinate different approaches?
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What formalisms help in utilizing technologies and mapping them to the processes?
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How do you increase value while retaining fun? Example – active decision support through collaboration and navigation of multi-dimensional solution spaces.
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How are you going to measure success? We used objective measures for measuring success, quantifying gains in productivity and documenting extent of savings and improvements in process.
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What factors affect technology adoption? How do you get a subcontractor to adopt technology without imposing it on them?
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Interoperability vs. competitive advantage? Page A10–2