benefits of streamlining & i.t. to disaster preparedness, response & recovery

BENEFITS OF STREAMLINING & I.T. TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE & RECOVERY

Robert WibleAlliance for Building Regulatory Reform in the Digital Age at FIATECH & Principal, Robert Wible & Associates

National Emergency Management Association Mitigation Committee Meeting September 8, 2008 Portland, OR.

MOVING THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS FORWARD

Benefits of Streamlining & I.T. to Disaster Preparedness, Response & Recovery

Share outcome of actions taken serving state and local government and their building code and public safety interests

Tools developed by the Alliance you can use to enhance your state’s ability to better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.


The Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in the Digital Age at FIATECH

A Public/Private Partnership of Associations & Government Agencies– NACo, Mayors, NGA, NASCIO, Federal Agencies HUD, DOE,

NIST…

– FIATECH, AIA, NAHB,AGC,BOMA, ICC ….

– Wisconsin; California; Salem, OR; Los Angeles, CA…

Share best practices to improve gov’t effectiveness & efficiency & disaster preparedness

Provide streamlining resources that, when adopted, have reduced regulatory costs by 40-60 %

Speed disaster response & recovery


Lessons from 9-11 & Katrina


Lessons from 9-11, Katrina, et. al.

Critical Role of Adoption & Effective Enforcement of modern model building codes with disaster mitigation provisions

Need to be able to speed disaster response:

- Access to as-builts

- Rapidly conduct damage assessments Need to be able to speed disaster recovery

- 85% of small businesses fail if closed 3 wks


Current Status of IT in Building Departments For Any Use

Nationwide, only 10% of 40,000 jurisdictions, adopting and enforcing building codes, use any IT– Only 2% allow electronic submission of plans

– less than 1% do reviews

– Less than 4% use mobile inspection technology

Near total lack of inter-operability of building data within same jurisdiction

Virtually none between jurisdictions or within state


Impact of Inefficiencies In Regulation

Ineffective & inconsistent code enforcement– Too often outdated codes with inadequate mitigation

Higher than necessary regulatory portions of construction costs & longer time to approve – As much as 60% higher/longer than in neighboring

communities of same size, construction volume

– Causing some businesses to leave town or projects not to be built at all !

– Significantly slowing pace of rebuilding after disaster


What can be done?

Alliance Experience - Benefits of Streamlining & Applying Information Technology to Building and Planning/Zoning Regulatory Processes:– Enhanced public safety & disaster preparedness thru

increased accuracy in compliance with and enforcement of codes (20% - 50%)

– Speed damage assessments

– Speed disaster recovery by increased code accuracy and reducing by up to 60% amount of time buildings take to move thru regulatory system


What’s Being Done ?

Convergence of Government / Industry / I. T. Community to Address Issues

Sample successful Alliance supported actions to streamline & apply I.T. to disaster prep., response, recovery:

– State of Oregon Statewide e-Permitting

– I.T. Roadmap for Louisiana

– Local jurisdictions generating database of electronic as-builts

– State of CA project to design & demonstrated interoperability for remote field inspection technology to conduct damage assessments


What’s Being Done ?

Alliance for Building Regulatory Reform in The Digital Age - now at FIATECH tools to identify & eliminate barriers to streamlining:

– Surveys, Guides & Information on Streamlining & I.T. for Elected Officials

• Model Procurement Requirements• Demonstration of Interoperability• E-Plan, Remote Field Inspection, etc.• ROI Data for Jurisdictions• Guide for Action to Promote Regional Disaster Resiliency• Streamlining Toolkit


Sample Tools You Can Use in Your State

Streamlining Toolkit


Sample Tools You Can Use in Your State

• White PapersePlan Submission/Review/Tracking & Storage

• New White Paper:From Paper to Digits – Steps to Move Your Community into the Digital Age


Specific Benefits of Electronic Plan Submittal, Review, Tracking & Storage

Speed building construction at reduced cost Significantly reduce number of errors in design

& construction Significantly reduce energy used in repeated

trips to building department / paper consumed, storage space

Speed reconstruction after a disaster Prepare community for future – BIM, first

responder database of “as-builts”


Demonstrating Interoperability in Remote Field Inspections- L.A. Basin

Funded by DHS: 10 month project with CA OES to:

- Study feasibility of getting diverse hardware/software used in remote field inspection (safety assessment reports) to exchange data. - Survey of Region

- Pilot demonstration project with 3 – 4 jurisdictions

- Implement in regional disaster drill


L.A. Basin Project – Successful Pilot Demonstration – August 27, 2008

Four CA jurisdictions - Gardena, Glendale, San Dimas & Santa Clarita, all successfully:

- Downloaded inspection assignments

- Conducted damage assessments

- Uploaded data to central database

- Automatically populated ATC report forms:

Red, Yellow, Green tags

- Using……..


L.A. Basin Project – Successful Pilot Demonstration – August 27, 2008

Using 8 different types of hardware & 4 different types of software including:

- Mobile Tablet p.c.s

- Ruggedized laptops

- Desk top computer

- Mini-computers

- Smart Cell Phone including an I-Phone

Software: Selectron, Accela, CRW, Teleworks


State of California / Alliance Vision

Develop a Statewide System to Speed Disaster Response & Recovery by:

- Enabling jurisdictions under mutual aid agreements to bring and use diverse mobile field inspection hardware and software to conduct safety assessments

- Enabling jurisdictions in neighboring states to do so & CA jurisdictions in turn to aid them

- NEXT DEMO DURING Golden Guardian 11/08


A Closing Thought About The Future and The Need For Collaboration

The Lesson from KATRINA - What a Truly Large Scale Disaster Can Do To Unprepared Communities / Region

WE ALL HAVE POTENTIAL KATRINA’S WAITING TO HAPPEN…..

Therefore….


This is what the Alliance & FIATECH were formed to do.

Help private, public sectors & academic community meet the challenges before us.

We invite NEMA to do it together!

“The best way to predict the future is to design it” R. Buckminster Fuller


For More Information

Contact me• Robert Wible• 703-568-2323• [email protected] or at [email protected]

Visit our websites• www.natlpartnerstreamline.org• www.fiatech.org

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