Web-Enabled Design Review and Lessons Learned
Abstract
The Department of Defense invests significant capital in building new facilities; approximately $11.2 billion in Fiscal Year 1996. Conventional facility delivery processes and practices that were once satisfactory are increasingly expensive, labor intensive, and not fully automated or integrated. State of the art automation technology is the best hope to keep pace with requirements to reduce design and construction errors, reduce resource requirements, and optimize mission performance. This report discusses one aspect of facility delivery; the design review process. The Design Review and Checking System (DrChecks) is the next step in the evolution of previous USACERL developed products to support the technical, design, and Biddability, Constructibility, Operability (BCO) review process. This document describes: (1) the requirements and constraints considered in this research, (2) requirements for an integrated system of lessons learned, (3) minimum requirements to install and test the distribution version of DrChecks, and (4) the steps required to implement a distributed lessons learned system. To test the prototype system requires an Intel Pentium processor and a 2 GB hard drive compatible with HTML 2.0. Client systems must be linked to the Internet using TCP/IP protocols with a minimum connection speed of 9600 bps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA344693
Entities
People
- E. William East
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory