Relevance of Red Book Information to the Directorate of Engineering and Housing Decisionmaking Process
Abstract
The Office of the Chief of Engineers (OCE) has for many years produced a document known as the Facilities Engineering Annual Summary of Operations, or the 'Red Book.' Although the Red Book is widely distributed, it is not clear if the current format and content effectively meet the information needs of real property managers. The objective of this study was to identify the usefulness of data reported in the Red Book. A survey and a set of interviews identified the information needed to support decisionmaking. The potential uses of the Red Book data were also investigated. Real property managers need a global and longterm information source like the Red Book. However, managers lack the time and tools necessary to analyze the raw data. It is recommended that OCE continue to publish and distribute the Red Book while providing the incentives and tools to use it. It is also recommended that organizations conduct a rigorous analysis of the decisionmaking problems or real property managers and work with major Commands and OCE to develop standard unit costs and goals for functional and physical conditions of facilities. The Red Book should also contain analysis of individual installations' trends. This report documents the development of a railroad track structural analysis method, describes an example application, and includes an executable computer program on diskette. This method was orginally developed for the Railroad Engineered Management System (RAILER). Keywords: Directorate of Engineering and Housing Facilities, Engineering Annual Summary of Operations, Decisionmaking.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA228022
Entities
People
- Alan Moore
- Huseyin Leblebici
- Osman Coskunoglu
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory