Construction technology consortium FIATECH has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with COMIT (Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT) to work together to provide accelerated results and emerging technology deployments to their respective members and the engineering and construction industry at large.
By pooling resources, the firms said today in a press release, FIATECH and COMIT will have more individuals who will be able to invest time and resources to leverage applicable resources to work on solving critical technology challenges, resulting in much quicker and efficient technology deployments.
"Where FIATECH's focus is on the implementation of innovative technologies across the entire life cycle of a capital construction project, COMIT's focus is on the deployment of mobile IT technology," explains Ric Jackson, director of FIATECH. "COMIT's unique niche in the international construction market is a tremendous value and opportunity for all of us. Technologies that seemed far-reaching and merely conceptual only a couple years ago are now being applied on real projects with amazing results. We are delighted to be expanding our network of resources and expertise in this area, which is exploding in market penetration and growth."
FIATECH and COMIT have already been working closely together on FIATECH's Capital Projects Technology Roadmap Element #8 – Technology and Knowledge Enabled Workforce. COMIT has commissioned academic research into the cultural and human-centered factors related to mobile IT project implementation and will be publishing a final report on these findings in the fall of 2007.
Furthermore, as a result of the recent publication (through COMIT) of ERABUILD's "RFID in Construction Report," further collaboration is planned on the Capital Projects Technology Roadmap Element #4 area focused on an Intelligent and Automated Construction Job Site. Specific work is planned to look into new and emerging applications of RFID technology as well as applications of augmented reality (3D design and visualization technology).
More information:
www.fiatech.org;
www.comitproject.org.uk/ --From a press release