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2 Emerging Information Technologies for Facilities Owners
Pages 6-13

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... dates back to the early 1960s when space forecasting and inventory applications were first run on expensive mainframe computers by people writing their own programming code. As time went on, architectural planning and construction project management were added to the suite of applications running on the systems, as shown in Figure 1.
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... Since 1997 there have been three trends in Internet CAFM products: "brochure ware," or static and dynamic Web pages and Web-enabled applications; e-commerce, including portals, marketplaces, and application service providers (ASPs) ; and information integration, including emerging e-business and e-process applications.
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... In recent months Graphic Systems has selected vendor examples from these categories and developed case studies to illustrate the state of Internet technology in major CAFM categories. In the space and asset management category Graphics Systems selected for its case study applications developed by Facility Information Systems, Inc.
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... Through its Web portal Bricsnet integrates the technology, services, and information that professionals can use to design a building, manage a geographically dispersed project team, bid on and procure building materials and services, access building product specifications from manufacturers, and manage completed facilities. Bricsnet maintains corporate headquarters in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and Ghent, Belgium.
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... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES: AN OUTLOOK Summary of a Presentation by Donald Greenberg Director, Computer Graphics Program, Cornell University Moore's law holds that the density of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, leading to a doubling of processing power in the same period. The semiconductor industry has already done testing on the types and size of micro features needed to continue advancing the technology at the rate described by Moore's law until 2011 or 2013.
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... If I had a dream, it would be to sit in a nice soft chair in the woods, possibly with some classical music playing, with a sketch pad and charcoal pen or a Pentel and tracing paper and doodle and sketch. That's where I can do my most creative thinking.
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... In the private sector numerous buildings are built because of Wall Street. Certain design and construction information now is going to be driving the secondary paper market because of very simple tools, like electronic closings online that capture due diligence reports, environmental Phase I reports, record documents, past tenants, and utility use.
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