Question

In the US, according to Deke Smith, Exec. Director of the building SMART Alliance - a section within the US National Institute of Building Sciences, that $1.6 billion is wasted per day because of "bad" information exchange processes within the construction industry. How would you frame a competition on this site to reduce this waste and increase the use of relevant software standards to reduce the waste by 20-50% over a 36 month time period?

Answer 1

This Competition, to get attention, will need to have a "Motivational Ontology" structure or organizational sponsors, a set of Prizes (say $10,000 for first place, $4,000 for 2nd place, $1,000 for 3rd); some outreach to various kinds of software vendors, large buyers of building services, cloud computing service vendors, and of course architects, engineering, and construction - facilities management organizations and academic institutions). Criteria for determining the context of the software development, implementation, and maintenance will be needed. Finally, the topic of "waste" needs full attention - because the waste is largely labor costs of re-entering data manually at each step of the construction life-cycle handover. In other words, how many jobs will be lost, and how many jobs may be added across the country?