Closing the gap in building performance: learning from BIM benchmark industries

Closing the gap in performance management

Closing the Performance Gap with Modern C++

On the way to Exascale, programmers face the increasing challenge of having to support multiple hardware architectures from the same code base. At the same time, portability of code and performance are increasingly difficult to achieve as hardware architectures are becoming more and more diverse. Today’s heterogeneous systems often include two or more completely distinct and incompatible hardwa...

A Better BIM: Ideas from other Industries

The architecture, engineering, construction and facility management (A/E/C-FM) industries have the opportunity to interoperate with software tools which utilise the IFC standard building information model (BIM). However, within the companies and projects which are currently using this standard there have been a number of issues raised with an impact on achievable interoperability. At the time t...

Closing the Business-IT 'Gap': A Trust-Building Approach

This paper argues that inadequate levels of trust underlie the poor relationship between cross-functional groups, such as business and IT in organizations and suggests trust-building guidelines for tackling persisting issues of cross functional conflict to leverage organizations productivity and performance. The paper begins with re-interpreting existing literature on the business-IT ‘gap’ to h...

Closing the Technology Gap? Closing the Technology Gap?

This paper focuses on the dimensions shaping the dynamics of technology. We present a model where the knowledge stock of a country grows over time as a function of three main factors: its innovation intensity, its technological infrastructures and its human capital. The latter two variables contribute to determine the absorptive capacity of a country as well as its innovative ability. Based on ...