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The Stanford Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) Summer Program annually teaches Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and Facility Management (FM) professionals how to use and obtain project and business benefits from strategic Information Technology. This year, we are pleased to offer the program twice:

Session I, co-hosted by the US General Services Administration (GSA), will be held in the GSA Auditorium Washington, DC, June 9-10, 2009. The topic for this session was “VDC/BIM use today: Building both projects and a VDC/BIM culture quickly and well.”
Session II will be on the campus of Stanford University, September 8 (beginning at noon) -9 (all day) - 10 (ending at noon), 2009. The topic for this session is "Performance-based Design, Construction, and Operation of Facilities."

 

Governmental owners around the world now have intense pressure to start new building projects quickly, and they simultaneously seek much higher performance from their built assets in terms of supporting high level functional objectives, energy use and overall asset utilization. This conference looks at how VDC(Virtual Design & Construction)/BIM (Building Information Modeling) use can help quick and good building, and how quick and good building can help create a VDC/BIM culture and an asset for improved future development.

The development and policy view considers how owners can create and make development decisions using a database of existing VDC/BIM models that record the functional, energy and asset utilization performance of a few new projects and a vast inventory of existing projects.

Who should attend

The Summer Program will be of value to middle and senior management professionals who have responsibility to develop, retrofit and operate fixed physical assets. In addition, the program will be of value to the critical architects, engineers and contractors who do and will provide services to government owners. While the Program focuses its attention on the opportunities and issues of governments, it will be of interest to private owners and their service providers.

The best way for a company to participate is to send a team of four or more that represents multiple skills and responsibilities. The team can then return and work as a coalition that collaboratively will advance VDC use more effectively than any enthusiastic individuals.

Last updated: March 24, 2009.