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    The Digital Twin: Intelligent and Responsive Environments
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-25) Guhathakurta, Subhro ; Pishdad-Bozorgi, Pardis ; Sanford, Jon ; Shelden, Dennis R. ; Yang, Perry Pei-Ju
    Smart cities, buildings, homes, and infrastructure are all emerging as critical themes for the 21st-century built environment. These developments all have in common the integration of distributed sensors, coupled with real-time virtual simulation, and closed loop digital interventions into the built environment. College of Design faculty are working across widely varying scales from the city to the chip to conceive of and realize the next generation of digitally mediated built environments. This forum will present College research spanning from smart cities to smart buildings, virtual and augmented reality, and the internet of things. It will be followed by an open forum to explore opportunities for further collaboration by faculty and students in this wide area of emerging technology.
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    Successful Delivery of Flash Track Products
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-03-26) Pishdad-Bozorgi, Pardis
    The Construction Industry Institute (CII) has funded Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech to develop best practices for the successful implementation of Flash Tracking (Faster fast Track). Flash Track is defined by this research as a time-driven project which by necessity requires a heightened degree of concurrency between engineering, procurement, and construction. The research, which began in May 2013, has developed a two-tiered structure of 47 practices essential to flash tracking; these practices place the greatest emphasis on planning, execution, and organizational considerations, followed by cultural issues, delivery methods, and contractual considerations. A “Flash Track Readiness Metric” is also developed to assess the extent to which a project is ready, or not, to be undertaken on a flash track basis. To help companies with the implementation of flash track concepts, an implementation resource (IR) toolkit has been developed and integrated with the readiness metric. The IR introduces innovative implementation strategies for each of the 47 practices, and includes barriers to implementation, identification of heightened risks, and risk mitigating strategies. These elements are integrated with the readiness metric to provide further assistance in eliminating identified weaknesses with flash tracking. The outcome of this study is based on extensive research on project acceleration practices in U.S. and international construction as well as other industries outside construction, including manufacturing, ship-building and software development. The methodology employed in this research entailed deployment of a 3-round Delphi process as well as the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to produce a comprehensive and robust prioritization of essential flash track practices and implementation recommendations. With the outcomes from the Delphi and AHP studies, a “Flash Track Readiness Metric” is developed to assess the extent to which a project is ready, or not, to be undertaken on a flash track basis.