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43% of facilities dedicated to:

research and scientific staff

supporting roles – storage and administrative

Science – Art – History – Culture - Technology

•10% leased space

•Observatories: Hawaii – Arizona – Cambridge Mass

•Nat’l Zoological Park: Conservation Center – Virginia

•Environmental Research Center – MD

•Marine Station – Fla

•Tropical Research Institute – Panama

•Horticultural Greenhouses – DC

•Native American Research and Cultural Center – Bronx, NY and MD

•Storage and Administrative – MD, VA, DC

NEED For Technology

Data and communications Interoperability to improve:

• Project schedules

• Capital costs

• O&M costs

• Quality of work (both physical and psychological)

• Age of Buildings: 40% over 30 years

• Track record of understated need

• As our Nation grows, so grows the Smithsonian

• New exhibits and museums

• Groups and Individuals

•Collaboration across the business enterprise

•Current up-to-date drawings

•Current, up-to-date data

•Space use

•Lease cost

•Organizational elements

•Facility systems (electrical, mechanical, etc., data)

•Intuitive and easy to use

•Ability to react

•How many…

•Where are…

•Civil war artifacts

•Fire sprinkler heads recall (13,000)

•AND – who did, when, and how – what was the design rational???

•Enterprise business systems interoperability

•HR

•Asset management

•Work order

•Estimating, etc.

Construction Industry Institute. (1998). “Cost and Schedule Impacts of Information Management”. Research Summary

Chapman, R.E. (2000). “Benefits and Costs of Research: A Case Study of Construction Systems Integration and Automation Technologies in Industrial Facilities”. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Office of Applied Economics,

How do we achieve this “Interoperability”

We get this “Interoperability” through the

advancement of COTS products such as CADD / CAFM and GIS

And the adherence to strict business processes

And adherence to data standards

A/E/C CADD standard is

an implementation of the National CADD Standard adding level and layer assignments

COTS based “checking software”

EDMS is

central repository allowing

check in and check out privileges

file sharing

communcation protocals implementing the business process

open architecture supporting business systems

communications like email

CAFM tools

common work place tools, word, adobe, etc., etc.

GIS implementation begins

graphical interface to the data

Again – data standards exist and are ready for implementation

An example of the graphical nature to a database

A Web enabled presentation from the “campus” to the office cubical

Graphical and intuitive navigation

User interactive queries include

department

space utilization, for example

Graphical Queries allow:

questions – scenarios

Operations and maintenance

Inventory – furniture - electrical, mechanical systems – IT components

Space management

real estate functions, etc., etc.

WHY do all this:

refer to studies suggesting:

8% reduction in capital costs of new work and restoration

14% reduction on schedule

5 to 15% savings in repairs

Wrap up by saying this includes or “right arm” – that of the contract support

They are our partner in getting the job done