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Methods for justification of the investment needed – build a business case, include risks, and define metrics.
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Value of real true information.
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Risks
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The construction process depends a lot on trust between parties (e.g., contractor, supplier, subcontractors, etc.). How do you build trust in automated system with absence of people interactions?
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Flexibility – how to maintain flexibility in the fully integrated environment?
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How to prepare 21st Century workforce?
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Automated facility condition assessment.
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How can we understand the impact of an applied technology on the triple bottom line – social, environmental, and fiscal? Not all will have the same needs, wants, and outcomes.
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Need to demonstrate the capability of the integration of the processes/systems/data flows. Need test beds; take the fear of failure away from the business processes.
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In order to realize the FIATECH roadmap vision, it will be necessary to establish a geographically distributed, highly interdisciplinary, diverse research capability. Such a capability will require a Cyberinfrastructure for the exchange of data, the sharing of software tools, and the co-development of strategies and processes (both machine and human-based).
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The research proposal to NSF perhaps should be to define and establish this research Cyberinfrastructure capability, which then evolves into the FIATECH Cyberinfrastructure as we incrementally achieve the goals of the roadmap.
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How should processes be evolved and applied to support the technology roadmap/virtual organizations?
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What is the current research development and output that can support the roadmap?
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Is technology ready, and what needs to be developed?
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Matrix and key performance indicators.
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What is the benefit of this research to the construction industry compared to the IT industry, i.e., is there any benefit for the IT industry? If so, then we can ask the IT industry to participate and contribute to this research.
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