Caesar Ruest, Autodesk BIM Solutions Executive, Architecture Engineering and Construction Canada

This year’s theme is “Real Property in Time”. When you consider accessing, evaluating and preparing property information, it can be challenging to deliver it with accuracy and in “real time”. There is a disconnect between the silos of numerical databases, and their supporting property drawing records. This disconnect prevents people from visualizing and understanding the information, thus requiring longer periods for accurate planning and reporting. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a process that creates a rich database of a building and its site, for the purpose of visualization, simulation and analysis. In fact, BIM is “Real Property in Real Time”.

BIM can be as simple as blocking and stacking spaces in a building, or a fully detailed building model including all assets, to a campus of BIM buildings like a virtual city. The levels of BIM used by consultants and contractors today are typically for 3D design, documentation, and visualization; however, there are other more compelling reasons, some of which include BIM’s role within an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) that embraces 4D (construction sequencing) and emergent 5D (costing and pricing).

In this session, you will learn about the principals of BIM but more importantly consider:

• Who will create your data and how to specify BIM in contracts;
• How to leverage the data for planning and improve the report creation process; and,
• Why databases should be linked to holistic property models.

The presentation will include the trends and practical examples within Canada and the U.S., as well as a short technical presentation of the tools that facilitate the three previous points.

John Thomas, Owner/Consultant, JFT Management Consulting (Moderator)
John Perry, Senior Advisor and Vice President, National Quality Institute
Janice Smith, Director, Excellence and Recruitment, Delta Hotels and Resorts
Carol Blotniuk, Director of National Accommodation Management, Real Property Branch, Public Works and Government Services Canada
Léonie de Souza, Senior Advisor Quality Management, Office of the Chief Risk Officer, Departmental Oversight Branch, Public Works and Government Services Canada

Business process reengineering. Total quality management. Quality circles. Kaizen. Plan, do, check, act quality control. ISO. Lean. Six Sigma. Etc. The list goes on. A lot of different concepts have been put forward over the years in the name of quality management – some successfully, others not.

Quality management is being successfully adopted by many public and private organizations, but there are almost as many organizations where the experience has been one of the next “flavour of the month”, a lot of effort for nothing that is soon forgotten.

This panel discussion will examine what quality management is and how it can be a tool to help your organization work smarter, not harder. Basic concepts, tools and definitions of quality management, as well as the various quality systems and frameworks will be introduced.

The panellists will help you understand why you should implement quality management, what key challenges you need to overcome and what critical success factors you need to watch to ensure success. They will share lessons learned from their experiences with quality management. Plus, time will be allocated for a Q&A so that you able to explore in greater detail specific issues or concerns that can be addressed by panel members.

On the panel are representatives from the National Quality Institute (NQI), Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and Delta Hotels and Resorts (Delta). NQI is Canada’s national authority on Quality and Healthy Workplace® practices, and has created a uniquely Canadian quality management model, providing measurable standards for all Canadian organizations. PWGSC has recently made the commitment to undertake the quality management journey, while Delta is a 2007 Canada Awards for Excellence, Order of Excellence Award recipient, having made the commitment to an excellence journey many years before.

At the end of the panel discussion, participants will:

• Understand the basic concepts and definitions related to quality management and the cross-compatibility between various available systems and frameworks;
• Understand what drives organizations to use a quality approach;
• Recognize the issues and challenges of implementing quality management and understand how they can be overcome; and,
• Have examples of how to plan and implement a quality management program.

Carol Blotniuk, Director of National Accommodation Management, Real Property Branch, Public Works and Government Services Canada
Judi Murtough, Manager, Workplace Strategies and Standards, Public Works and Government Services Canada

Today’s workplace is changing. We collaborate more and technology allows us to work from many different locations. As well, the demographic makeup of the workforce is changing and we must provide workplaces that attract the next generation of worker. But how can we create innovative workplaces? Do the Government of Canada Fit-up Standards restrict us to designing boring, repetitive cubicles?

What’s New?
The Fit-up Standards were designed to be a living policy tool, responding to the changing needs of client departments, trends in the workplace and innovations in sustainable design.
The Fit-up Standards have been updated to respond to some of these issues and to enhance the flexibility to create workspaces that integrate people, space, technology and business processes.

Innovation and Flexibility
In this presentation, Carol Blotniuk, Director, National Accommodation Management Directorate, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) and Judi Murtough, Manager, Workplace Strategies and Standards, PWGSC, will outline the Government of Canada Fit-up Standards and utilizing the example of an innovative pilot project they will demonstrate the flexibility of the fit-up standards to meet the full range of business requirements while reducing costs and supporting a more sustainable workplace.

If your organization is considering updating existing or creating new office environments to support innovation and flexibility while saving resources and reducing your environmental footprint, this presentation will be of interest to you.

Our ITS experts will demonstrate new technologies which enable “Intelligent Buildings” (greening energy management) in collaboration with the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), its members and partners. The demo will retrieve sensor data over the Internet with the capability to remotely adjust controls for heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and lighting. Save up to 20% in annual energy costs with this intelligent network of IP-enabled electronic devices, integrating existing building automation system (BAS) technology with more centralized monitoring and control.