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5 Emerging Technologies and a Vision for the Future
Pages 20-24

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... Joe! Orr Orr Associates International Bentley Engineering Laureate There is a lot of brainpower concentrated here, an incredible source of powerful ideas.
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... Let me go back, since I started on the Federal Reserve, to Alan Greenspan, who said that information technology has "begun to alter fundamentally the manner in which we do business and create economic value." In order to improve productivity, we have to think over the continuum of the entire life cycle as well as the continuum of the entire enterprise. The enterprise here encompasses the owner, the product deliverer, the product manufacturer, the architect, the engineers, and so on, everyone who is involved, as well as those who are involved in maintaining this building.
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... We need to think of these things as a unit. It is not about having fewer mouse clicks or drawing lines and circles faster or even producing more drawings or fewer drawings, but rather of having an environment, because engineering is a nondeterministic activity.
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... Construction management, design-build projects, smart growth, value engineering, virtual reality tours. Project Web sites are important to only 20 percent of the population and sustainable building green design is even lower than that.
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... The biggest obstacle is fear of change. Somebody said, "Chance is inevitable: Progress is not." Somebody ~ , ~ ~ else said, "Change is inevitable except from a vending machine." So, whatever view you take, you can make progress, but only if you confront the people and organizational issues squarely.
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