Composition
This will be a working group with no pre-determined sunset date, however, its membership and composition will be reviewed annually, and may be revised as warranted by the specific issues to be addressed by the group. In addition, the group may engage the support and assistance of pre-identified experts in specific fields as consultants on particular issues.

Background
The Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) A/E Productivity Task Force report entitled Collaboration, Integrated Information, and the Project Lifecycle in Building Design, Construction and Operation WP 1202, prepared by the CURT A/E Productivity Task Group, contained recommendations for enhancing results of the design, construction documentation, and general management aspects of project development and implementation through the timing, thoroughness, format, and reliability of information shared among all responsible parties. In December 2004, the AIA Task Group on A/E Productivity expanded to include representatives from the Large Firm Roundtable, the Project Delivery Task Force, and the Documents Committee, prepared a formal response to the recommendations contained in WP 1202. Following the submission of this response to CURT, the Management Task Group on A/E Productivity was dissolved.

Project delivery has been regularly mentioned by AIA members as the aspect of architectural practice about which they are the most concerned. Members believe it will have an impact on their practice in the years ahead and that they need additional knowledge, resources and support to meet the future needs of clients. The AIA Project Delivery Task Group (PDTG) was created in May 2004 at the recommendation of the AIA Board Knowledge Committee and charged to make recommendations to the AIA Board for a comprehensive, integrated response to this identified member need. The PDTG was initially asked to name a single issue related to project delivery that they thought was most significant. Their responses were: integration, education (note: this issue was the most frequently identified), technology, leadership, collaboration, and communication. Working within the context of the AIA Strategic Plan, the PDTG developed an action plan within the context of the three strategic areas: Advocacy, Community, and Knowledge. The plan calls for Immediate, Mid-Term, and Long-Term activities that address the project delivery issues identified by the PDTG. The plan was approved by the AIA Board in December 2004 and the PDTG was dissolved. Currently a small group of Board Knowledge Committee Members are working to integrate the immediate action items into the existing programs of work at the AIA national component.

Given the overarching nature of the issues raised by both responses and their potential to leverage significant change within a number of issues related to project delivery, and in response to the increased level of participation by the Institute in CURT and other organizations’ initiatives on these issues, the AIA management has identified a need to convene a working group to monitor the full range of issues that are likely to arise as building information modeling, interoperability, project delivery, risk management, AIA Contract Documents, and other related issues become more integrated in the profession of architecture.

Charge
The members of the IPSWG will be responsible for identifying and interpreting – within the context of their specialty – the needs and trends related to these issues. The group will further serve to share and discuss these issues across specialties and disciplines and to recommend action or reaction by the appropriate entities within the Institute and among industry stakeholders. Finally, this group will serve as the source for reports and/or other documents requested from the Institute by other organizations as well as for communications and knowledge-sharing vehicles directed toward the needs of AIA members. Oversight for the group will be provided by the AIA Knowledge Team with collaboration from AIA Management and other AIA-related teams. The group will provide reports to the Board of Directors, the Board Knowledge Committee, AIA Management and other leadership groups within the Institute on an as-needed basis.

Participant Biographies

James B. Atkins, FAIA, KIA, is a senior vice president/principal with HKS Architects, a top 10 design firm with offices in the U.S., UK, and Mexico. Jim has been with HKS for 28 years, and he is responsible for technical services delivery and management. He serves on the AIA Contract Documents Committee and the AIA Risk Management Committee. Atkins is a prolific author of professional articles including publications including The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, The AIA Emerging Professional’s Companion, Texas Architect Magazine, and AIArchitect. Atkins received his degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington, and is a registered architect in the states of Texas and New Hampshire. He was admitted as the first non-Korean regular member of the Korean Institute of Architects.

Jim Bedrick, AIA, is director of systems integration for Webcor Builders. He is responsible for the integration of information technology and business process, directing the development and implementation of information systems to support design and construction. A registered architect, Bedrick holds degrees in both architecture and electrical engineering, and has more than 20 years’ experience in the AEC industry. After practicing architecture for 10 years, he moved into the design and management of information systems for architecture firms. In 1998, he joined 3Com Corporation, directing information technology for their worldwide construction and facilities management division. In 2001, he joined Webcor, where his focus has been the use of information technology for simulation, coordination, communication, and knowledge sharing in design and construction teams. Bedrick is the 2005 chair of the AIA’s Technology in Architectural Practice advisory group. Bedrick is active in many organizations working to advance information technology in the AEC industry, including Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE) and the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), and is vice chair of the national advisory group of the AIA’s Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community.

Phillip G. Bernstein, FAIA, LEED AP, uniquely spans the domains of architecture education, architecture practice, and the AEC industry. He leads the Building Solutions Division of Autodesk, one of the world’s leading providers of technology solutions and design tools to the architectural, engineering and construction industry. In this role, Phil is setting Autodesk’s future direction for technology tools for the building industry. Prior to joining Autodesk, he was an Associate Principal at Cesar Pelli & Associates where he managed some of the firm’s most challenging projects as well as being responsible for general management of the firm. He designed Yale’s graduate practice curriculum, where he has taught the required course in professional practice to MArch candidates since 1998. He has been published in Architectural Record, Architecture, Design Intelligence, and Perspecta, among other journals, and was a contributor to the 13th Edition of the AIA Handbook of Professional Practice. He is chair of the AIA National Documents Committee, a member of the AIA College of Fellows, and senior fellow of the Design Futures Council. Bernstein received a BA magna cum laude with distinction in architecture and a MArch from Yale University.

Michael Broshar, AIA, is a Central States Director on the AIA national board and a member of the Board Knowledge Committee. Mike holds a BArch from Iowa State University and an MArch from Rice University. He is a senior vice-president of In Vision Architecture of Waterloo, Iowa, which specializes in health-care, religious, education, office, life-care, and housing projects. Active in the AIA at the earliest stages of his career, Mike was the Young Architects Forum state representative (1989). He went on to serve the state component as its secretary (1991–92), vice president (1993), first vice president (1994), and president (1995). He served on the board of the Iowa Architectural Foundation (1995–01, chair 2000). He is a commissioner of the Waterloo Culture and Arts Commission (1998–present) and was the commissioner and chair of the Waterloo Historic Preservation Commission (1985–98). A graduate of the Cedar Valley Leadership program, Mike also has been on the board of the UpDowntowners of Waterloo and the Waterloo Downtown Rotary Club, an elder of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and on several Waterloo civic design committees.

Davis Chauviere, AIA, is principal at HKS Inc., where he has worked for more than 32 years. After being director of quality control and later director of code research and review, Davis joined the design department and eventually became the head of a design studio. He assumed the position of director of CADD in 1983 and now also functions as chief information officer. He led the team involved in initial system selection and has managed the implementation, training, and evolution of HKS/CAD for the past two decades. Davis is on the executive committee of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable, CIO Subgroup, and was a member of the AIA Task Group on A/E Productivity.

Jonathan Cohen, FAIA, is the partner in charge of the San Francisco office of Van Tilburg, Banvard and Soderbergh, an architecture firm specializing in multifamily housing and urban design. He has received design awards from the AIA, AIA San Francisco, and the Urban Land Institute. A graduate of UC Berkeley, he has been a presenter at national and international conferences, and an instructor in the Harvard Design School Executive Education program. He is the author of Communication and Design with the Internet: A Guide for Architects, Planners and Building Professionals (WW Norton, 2000) as well as articles for Architectural Record, Urban Land, and Planning magazines. Cohen was the 2003 Chair of the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice committee and the conference chair of “Connecting the Dots: Understanding the Emerging Digital Building Process,” held in San Francisco in October, 2003. In 2004 he was elected to the AIA College of Fellows.

James (Jim) R. Duncan, PE, FACEC, is chair and CEO of Sparling, the largest specialty electrical engineering and technology consulting firm in the U.S., with a staff of over 145 people. Jim has served two years as P-president of the Seattle Architectural Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Council of Engineering Companies, Washington State Engineer of the Year and an honorary member of AIA Seattle and AIA Washington Council. He leads designs of projects such as Experience Music Project, Seattle's award-winning U.S. Courthouse and major health care facilities. He has a BS in electrical engineering from Clemson University, an MBA from Seattle University, and completed the Harvard Business School's Executive Leadership Program for Professional Service Firms.

Daniel Friedman, Ph D, FAIA, is director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to joining UIC's faculty, he served as director of the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati, where he taught from 1990 to 2002. Friedman co-edited the book Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture, a collection of critical and theoretical essays on geometry and hygiene (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997). He has contributed essays, articles, and reviews to JAE, Architecture magazine, AA Files, and the Journal of Architecture and Planning, among other periodicals. Recent publications include an essay on ornament and cuisine for a new anthology entitled Eating Architecture (The MIT Press, 2004). Friedman is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of Architectural Education, a current director of AIA Chicago, and program chair for the 2005 AIA Convention in Las Vegas. He holds degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where he completed his PhD in architectural theory.

Carl Galioto, FAIA, is the firmwide partner-in-charge of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM's) Technical Group and first joined SOM in 1978. He has extensive and diverse project experience. High-rise commercial projects include Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center, Seven World Trade Center, Times Square Tower and a design for the New York Stock Exchange. Health Science experience includes a New Research Building for Memorial Sloan-Kettering, a new patient pavilion for North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and replacement hospitals at Columbia-Presbyterian, St. Luke’s, and Roosevelt Hospitals. Extensive alteration experience was gained at NYU Medical Center, Lenox-Hill Hospital, and Columbia-Presbyterian. Transportation experience includes the new Terminal 4 at JFK International Airport and additions and alterations for Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport. Galioto has a particular interest in the restoration of Modern buildings, as evidenced by his award winning work in the restoration of Lever House, investigations at the U.N. Secretariat, and the restoration of the U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. Another of Galioto’s areas of expertise is the implementation of security and special life- safety designs for complex buildings. Such projects include Federal Courthouses in White Plains, N.Y., and Charleston, W. Va.; Terminal 4 at Kennedy Airport; Terminal C at Newark Airport; the proposed New York Stock Exchange Headquarters in New York City; and projects at the World Trade Center. Among his professional involvements are memberships in the AIA, the Construction Specifications Institute, the International Alliance for Interoperability and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He is also a member of the New York City Model Code Program Managing Committee that is advising the Mayor and Buildings Commissioner on the creation of a new building code for New York City.

Gary Gough, JD, is a partner at Ames & Gough. Gough brings experiences that are unique to insurance brokerage. Prior to forming AMES & GOUGH, Gary was the consulting attorney to Victor O. Schinnerer, the executive vice president and general counsel of HDR, and a senior attorney of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University.

Stephen R Hagan, FAIA, in 2002 he was elected to the AIA College of Fellows. He has distinguished himself as the premier architect providing leadership and vision at the national and international level for the integration of information technology into the planning, design and construction process, benefiting the entire profession. Three of Hagan’s notable achievements were his path-breaking effort to build a Project Information Portal for the U.S. General Services Administration Public Buildings Service (PBS); he pioneered, promoted, and evangelized the creation of standards that will drive cooperation and interoperability among information technology vendors; and his accomplishments while serving as Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Federal Facilities Council Design and Construction Standing Committee Chair have broadened his influence to 22 federal agencies. He currently directs the Project Knowledge Center within the Property Development Division at GSA PBS's National Capital Region. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Architecture. He is currently the GSA representative to the NIBS/IAI (International Alliance for Interoperability), vice chair of the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community, co-chair of the Federal Facilities Council (FFC) Emerging Technology Committee, and member of the AIA's Integrated Project Delivery Group.

Susan Hensey, AIA, is an owner with Little and a licensed architect with more than 17 years experience serving corporate real estate groups. She is a studio principal for the FM Strategies studio at Little Diversified Architectural Consulting [Little], a Charlotte-based firm with nearly 300 employees in seven offices across the nation. Founded by Hensey in 1993, the FM Strategies studio at Little Diversified Architectural Consulting (Little) is a unique, multidisciplined facility planning and space management team that works with clients to develop strategic direction for their real estate, enabling organizations to optimize their real estate investments, physical space, and assets. Hensey is past-chair of the FM Knowledge Community, member of the 2006-07 AIA Convention Education Committee, and on the BOMA/IFMA Area Measurement Working Group.

Norman Koonce, FAIA, has been the executive vice president and CEO of the American Institute of Architects since 1999. Prior to that, he was the president of the American Architectural Foundation. Koonce has personally led several AIA research initiatives, including AIA’s partnership with GSA to study the impact of the work environment on worker health and productivity, and AIA support of neuroscience research into how the brain interacts with and interprets the physical environment. This support helped make possible the founding of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) in 2003.

Patrick MacLeamy, AIA, is chief executive officer of HOK, a global architectural design and services firm. Appointed to this position in March 2003, he leads the firm’s strategic vision and direction. During his 36-year tenure at HOK, MacLeamy has served in leadership roles in design, project management, marketing, and management. He also has overseen the establishment of several HOK regional offices in the U.S. and Asia. MacLeamy is committed to helping establish standards of quality, reliability and efficiency in the building industry. He advocates changing the fragmented nature of the industry into a vertically integrated, highly efficient system that emulates the manufacturing industry. MacLeamy has supported this vision as a founder and international Chairman of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), an organization which fosters standards for data exchange in the building industry. He is also an active speaker and panelist for building industry forums including Construction Users Roundtable (CURT), and the Construction Industry Roundtable (CIRT).

Robert Middlebrooks, AIA, is a principal with Clark Nexsen, a 385- person architecture/engineering firm headquartered in Norfolk, with four additional offices in Virginia and North Carolina. He recently concluded his three-year term as the regional director from the Virginias on the AIA National Board. During his term he served as the national chair of the AIA Management Task Force on A/E Productivity during 2004. As part of that task he also served with the Construction Users Round Table (CURT), A/E Productivity Committee and helped coordinate the relationship between CURT and the AIA, including the AIA’s Task Group’s development of the response to CURT’s whitepaper. Middlebrooks also joined the AIA National Contract Documents Research Group on Digital Documents in 2004, which primarily deals with how BIM and other digital technologies are incorporated into new versions of contract documents and how contract document structuring and language should respond.

Barbara Milan Price, FAIA, LEED, is currently managing principal for Jacobs Facilities, Inc and specializes in Military Projects. She has both marketing and project launch responsibilities for significant military projects. She received both her BA in anthropology in 1973 and her MArch in 1976 from the University of Colorado. Upon graduation, she worked in her father's community-focused practice, Milan Architects PC, in Denver Since that time, she has worked with several large firms including CRSS, HOK, ODELL, and LS3P ASSOCIATES. Price has also been an active AIA member. She has served as the 2000 South Carolina AIA president, Co-Chair of the 2002 national convention in Charlotte, NC, and most recently as an advisory group member of the National Practice Management Knowledge Community.

R.K. Stewart, FAIA, is a two-term vice-president and current president-elect of the AIA. In 2004, he led AIA efforts with regard to Emerging Professionals, and this year he is leading the Institute’s Advocacy program. R.K. is a principal in the San Francisco office of Gensler, where he is responsible for the development and implementation of forward-looking strategies for project delivery across the 1,850-member firm. Stewart holds a MArch from the University of Michigan.

Norman Strong, FAIA, elected 2006 AIA vice president, hails from Seattle and is managing partner of the Miller/Hull Partnership, a 50-person architecture firm that specializes in privately and publicly funded institutional work. Established in 1977, the firm has been recognized for innovative design, receiving more than 139 design awards, including 81 AIA awards. In 2003, Miller/Hull received the AIA Architecture Firm Award. Miller/Hull has also been recognized for its sustainable design emphasis, receiving four AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project Awards. During his first two years on the national board, Strong was involved in the knowledge discussion group, the Professional Interest Area (PIA) Executive Committee, and the Board Knowledge Committee during the Institute’s transition to the knowledge community model. He is currently chair of the Project Delivery Task Group, which is comprised of a wide range of AIA Knowledge Community members who are identifying opportunities for the AIA to be a leader in forward-thinking strategies related to project delivery. Strong earned his BArch from Washington State University.

AIA Staff

Markku Allison, AIA, joined the staff of the national component in the new position of resource architect. In this position—and as an experienced, licensed architect—he serves as an in-house content expert on issues of both current and future concern to architects and the profession. He staffs the Integrated Practice Strategy Working Group, which will consider the important and complex issues of building information modeling, interoperability, project delivery, risk management and the like. He will respond to and anticipate member knowledge needs and will be a major contributor to our best practices and eKnowledge resources. Allison comes to the AIA from Grand Rapids, where he was AIA Michigan’s Young Architect of the year in 2002. He has worked for a variety of leading firms in Michigan with diverse experience focusing on residential, religious, commercial, and educational facilities design. He has been active with the AIA Grand Valley chapter and with AIA Michigan. Allison holds a masters degree with a concentration in design and theory from the University of Michigan and is licensed in Michigan.

Barb Sido, CAE is the AIA’s team vice president, AIA Knowledge. She manages a30-person staff that includes the functions of Continuing Education, distance education, convention continuing education, Best Practices, library and archives, publishing and knowledge communities. She is staff liaison to the AIA Board Knowledge Committee. Sido has more than 15 years' experience in association management, specializing in strategic planning and program development, knowledge management, resource management and communications. Previously, she worked at the American School Food Service Association, the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, and the Republican National Committee, and she holds bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri.

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