{"65328":{"#nid":"65328","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Information Technology and Project Delivery - What Owners Need to Know","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Digital Building Laboratory announces an important new workshop:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInformation Technology \u0026amp; Project Delivery \u2013 What owners need to know\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMay 24 -25, 2011, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis workshop will focus on providing guidance to owners on how to utilize to best affect new technologies now available, and how to integrate these with modified project delivery approaches. This event is organized by the Digital Building Laboratory (DBL) at Georgia Tech. The DBL, directed by Chuck Eastman, has been at the forefront of developing information modeling and BIM technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBringing together owners, contractors, designers, practitioners, and software developers, this workshop will address the interface between the new technologies and the methods used to integrate the delivery of projects. This will be of particular interest to owners and others active in the fields of healthcare, hospitality, education and development.\u0026nbsp;The event will examine problems now being encountered and address potential solutions in a workshop environment, drawing on actual project case studies\u0026nbsp;for input. Sessions will range from using virtual models to improve early project definition to linking BIM to facility\nmanagement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeakers committed to date include:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EChuck Eastman, The Digital Building Lab, Georgia Tech\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWilliam Seed, Universal Health Services\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENadine Post, McGraw-Hill\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESteve Thweatt, Emory University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStuart Adler, Emory University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBryan McCaffery, DPR Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMichael Dell\u2019Isola, Faithful and Gould\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGregg Bundschuh, Greyling\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERegistration is now open and can be accessed at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dbl.gatech.edu\/dblworkshop\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.dbl.gatech.edu\/dblworkshop\u003C\/a\u003E , which includes a preliminary draft program. \u003Cem\u003ESign up before April 29th for the early bird rate.\u003C\/em\u003E E-mail \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.terka@coa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eann.terka@coa.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; for further information.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarly bird registration deadline is April 29 for this workshop hosted by the Georgia Tech Digital Building Laboratory.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2011-04-04 07:21:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:42","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-05-24T09:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-05-25T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-05-25T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-05-24 13:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-05-25 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-05-25 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63176":{"id":"63176","type":"image","title":"Digital Building Lab Symposium","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Digital Building Lab Symposium","file":{"fid":"191767","name":"DBL_Meeting.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DBL_Meeting_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DBL_Meeting_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2135077,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DBL_Meeting_0.jpg?itok=B9OmE28f"}}},"media_ids":["63176"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1223","name":"School of Building Construction"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"},{"id":"60379","name":"DBL - Digital Building Lab"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"12640","name":"building managers"},{"id":"12639","name":"building owners"},{"id":"1400","name":"Construction"},{"id":"12638","name":"digital building"},{"id":"336","name":"information technology"},{"id":"12641","name":"project development"},{"id":"4097","name":"real estate"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ann.terka@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAnn Terka\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech Digital Building Lab\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}