Berkeley-Stanford CE&M Workshop: Defining a Research Agenda for AEC Process/Product Development in 2000 and Beyond

首席研究人员（pi）建议为参与者组织一个研讨会，以确定一个研究议程，该议程将为美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）提供服务，以指导工程研究界参与资本设施的设计和建设。由于专业化、碎片化、诉讼和全球化，建筑工程建设（AEC）行业一直在以前所未有的速度变化。这导致了高度的复杂性和不确定性，这是当今大多数正在开发的项目的特征。尽管面临挑战，但由于对工程和建设过程的思维转变，结合新信息技术的可用性，组织和合同重组以及手段和方法，机会比比皆是。这种转变使所有AEC参与者之间实现真正的整合成为可能，从而为所有者带来更高的价值。研讨会将汇集活跃在该领域的研究人员和实践者，以便他们可以讨论建筑工程和管理理论的进步以及支持其发展的研究工作。研讨会将由伯克利的一位PI和斯坦福的一位PI联合组织如下。首先，潜在的参与者将通过电子方式发出提交“白皮书”或“立场文件”的请求。其次，提交的论文将在网上发布，并提交给公众投票（每位作者将能够为他或她最喜欢的五篇论文投票）。第三，将投票结果作为决策依据，由法律顾问与指导委员会共同选择参加研讨会的人员。选择研讨会参与者的其他考虑因素包括：部门（工业和学术界）的代表性，领导讨论部分的能力，学术等级和研究经验。第四，研讨会将于8月下旬在斯坦福大学举行。最后，所有预备白皮书、讨论摘要和讲习班的结论将在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的一个网站上公布，以便尽可能广泛地接触到听众。

The Principal Investigators (PIs) propose to organize a workshop for participants to identify a research agenda that will serve the National Science Foundation in its effort to guide the enineering research community involved in design and construction of capital facilties. The architecture engineering construction (AEC) industry has been changing at an ever increasin pace, due to specialization, fragmentation, litigation, and globalization. These have led to the high complexity and uncertainity so characteristic of most projects being developed today. Despite the challenges ahead, oppurtunities abound thanks to a shift in thinking regarding the engineering and construction process combined with the availability of new information technologies, organiational and contractual restructing, and means and methods. This shift makes it conceivable to achieve true integration among all AEC players so as to result in increased value delivered to owners. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who are active in the field so they can discuss the advancement of theory for construction engineering and management and research efforts to support its development. The workshop will be oranized jointly by a PI at Berkeley and a PI at Stanford as follows. First, potential participants will be solicited by electronically issuing a request for submission of "whitepapers" or "position papers." Second, the submissions will be posted on the web and submitted to public a vote (each author will be able to vote for his or her five favorite papers). Third, taking the outcome of the vote as the basis for decision making, the PIs, together with a steering committee, will select participants to the workshop. Additional considerations for selection of workshop participants are: representation of sectors (industry and academia), ability to lead discussion sections, and academic rank, and research experience. Fourth, the workshop will be held in late August at Stanford University. Finally, all preparatory whitepapers, summaries of the discussions, and the conclusions of the workshop will be posted on the web, hosted at a site at the University of California, Berkeley, so as to reach the widest audience possible.