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QUICK TAKES NEWS Cost and Energy Efﬁciency Drives Intelligent Buildings The North American intelligent building market continues to stay at a nascent stage with considerable skepticism and speculation in the minds of builders and other stakeholders. According to recent Frost & Sullivan research, the lack of interoperable systems remains a major challenge, but the market will gradually accept the concept of open interoperable communication protocols. Manufacturers will also develop wireless devices and protocols, besides Web-based services. These technological developments will facilitate the adoption of intelligent buildings, thus promoting future market growth. An intelligent building, through reduced energy consumption, leads to additional cost savings. Consumption costs become minimized by effectively managing the temperature and lighting of unoccupied spaces. Energy costs will be considerably reduced by proper zone controls using a schedule based on the time of the day. This, in turn, leads to greater energy savings, also helping to reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, a lack of public awareness and knowledge remains a critical restraint for the growth of the North American intelligent buildings market. Moreover, most customers have the opinion that integrating subsystems in a building involves huge investments. This detractor, in many cases, makes builders reluctant to secure the initial investment. fossil and nuclear power, civil and transportation infrastructure, building, automotive and construction equipment manufacturing, shipbuilding, and forensic. Spar Point reported that growth shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Customers and vendors agree the market has moved well beyond early adoption into substantial numbers of mainstream users, driven by case after case where improved dimensional control aided design, fabrication, construction, operations, and maintenance. Growing investment in laser-scanning technology and work process by asset owner/ operators is one notable marker of this. Beyond better-informed design and engineering, more practitioners are driving the use of optical measurement to improve construction in both brownﬁeld and greenﬁeld projects. Modular construction, dimensional control and digital ﬁt-up of fabricated items, integration Terrestrial Laser-Scanning Market (Hardware, Software, and Services) $275 $250 $225 Millions >>more Hiring Needs Top List of Challenges The results of a survey conducted by ZweigWhite for its annual “AEC Industry Outlook: Strategy and Insight for Design & Construction Firms” report reveals that the inability to ﬁnd qualiﬁed staff is the single most important challenge for architecture/ engineering ﬁrms heading into 2007, clocking in at 4.42 on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being ‘’most important.’’ This is the second year in a row that stafﬁng difﬁculties have topped the list of challenges architecture/engineering ﬁrms are facing, a growing trend for several years. In reaction to this problem, 72 percent of survey respondents report that they will be increasing their hiring and recruitment activities in 2007 and beyond. But how will they do it? ‘’There are a number of ways ﬁrms can gain a competitive advantage in recruiting fresh talent, such as standardizing hiring criteria and candidate screening as well as maximizing ﬁrm visibility on popular jobposting Web sites,’’ said Elaine Kornbau, managing editor of ZweigWhite Best Practice publications. ZweigWhite’s new A/E Recruitment & Retention Cookbook addresses the importance of attracting the best and the brightest people and offers tips, advice, and best practices information to help architecture/ engineering ﬁrms win the mounting talent war. Through a series of detailed case studies, the A/E Recruitment & Retention Cookbook also shows how some ﬁrms are successfully navigating the tight labor market. >>more $200 $175 $150 $125 $100 $75 $50 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Burgeoning 3D Laser-Scanning Market Sales of terrestrial 3D laser-scanning hardware, software, and services reached $253 million in 2006, a growth of 43 percent over 2005, according to Spar Point Research’s latest estimate. Guidance from laser-scanner manufacturers was backed up by reports from software and service providers of strong activity across many markets: offshore construction and repair, onshore oil and gas, © 2007 Spar Point Research LLC of airborne LiDAR with GPS/RTK with conventional survey, and intelligent application of 3D visualization are yielding impressive results in an industry well known for its reluctance to change. New research in using survey-integrated video, ﬂash LaDAR, RFID, and other sensor technologies for real-time site monitoring suggests that this is only the beginning of what is possible. >>more Volume 4, Issue 3 | BE MAGAZINE 3 http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-overview.pag?repid=N1F9-01-00-00-00&ctxst=FcmCtx1&ctxht=FcmCtx2&ctxhl=FcmCtx3&ctxixpLink=FcmCtx4&ctxixpLabel=FcmCtx5 http://www.zweigwhite.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/bookstore/p-igrec.asp?L+aa0019820+jtwf2271F2331ff454b45+1185336258#description http://sparllc.com/archiveviewer.php?vol=05&num=07&file=vol05no07-01

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Contents Rising to the Challenge News BE Newsletter Highlights More ITS Sightings Racing Concrete Canoes Lights, Camera, Action! Making the Cut People’s Choice Awards 2007 Executive Keynotes Building Clear Vision of a Dream Concrete Results Reaching New Heights Building News From Bentley Golden KIWI Awards 2007 Civil A Coordination of National Highway Proportions Training Troops Beautifying Highways, One Sign at a Time Civil News From Bentley Geospatial Facility Facelift Planning for Uncertainty Geospatial News From Bentley MicroStation at the Heart of LiDAR Surveying Solutions Plant Making the Grade Data Deja Vu Data Clouds Provide Clear Visual of Underground Saving Precious-Metal Mining Time Plant News From Bentley Advertisers Index Special/Academic The Art of Visualization Training Is Key To Delivering State-of-the-Art Solutions Bridging the Information/Infrastructure Gap

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 3

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