Fall 2012 Faculty Showcase Copyright (c) 2013 Roger Williams University All rights reserved. http://docs.rwu.edu/fall_2012 Recent documents in Fall 2012 Faculty Showcase en-us Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:54:17 PST 3600 Can We Teach Lean Construction Methods in Schools of Architecture http://docs.rwu.edu/fall_2012/2 http://docs.rwu.edu/fall_2012/2 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:35:11 PST Traditionally, schools of architecture are not great laboratories to explore the collaborative processes and teamwork that are essential to integrated design and delivery practices as exemplified by Lean Construction. The pre-eminence of the “hero-architect” in the design studio is in direct conflict with methods that can reduce risk and improve the efficiency of the design and construction delivery process. Risk? Efficiency? Delivery Process?... not mention Cost Control, Schedule and Constructability, are foreign concepts to the predominant design studio culture.

Integrated practices and integrated project delivery are clearly “hot” topics in the design and construction industry today. They are a response to pressures from building owners and developers for more efficient and predictable processes for designing and constructing buildings, and to the increasing availability of advanced digital technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Can an institutionally enshrined resistance to the new approach to design and delivery in the Academy be overcome? Should it? These are the questions that institutions that teach design and construction practices are wrestling with all over the country. This paper addresses an approach that allows interdisciplinary teams to apply the basic elements of Integrated Practice and Lean Construction to a real world case study that is designed using a common Building Information Model.

]]> Gary Graham Designing International Institutions for Global Security http://docs.rwu.edu/fall_2012/1 http://docs.rwu.edu/fall_2012/1 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:03:19 PST This talk focuses on the challenges inherent in designing international institutions for global security. The area of inquiry is interdisciplinary in nature, incorporating insights from economics, international relations, and mathematics (game theory). It is argued that this line of research would benefit from greater incorporation of techniques from bargaining theory and mechanism design. An agenda is proposed for interdisciplinary collaboration and some interesting results are presented from author’s published and ongoing research.

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