FuturePlace conference

Oct 21-22 2019 Miami, Florida

At the center of FuturePlace is the reality that:

“A successful master planned community requires highly sophisticated collaboration across many stakeholders that are aligned with common goals.” - from the FuturePlace conference website.

Terry Beaubois, conference panel member
CEO, BKS: Building Knowledge Systems
BKS is a highly collaborative, knowledgable, experienced Building Industry member.

Supplemental notes to Terry Beaubois’ FuturePlan presentation:

  • Knowledge / Education:

“Knowledge” is the key to success in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Building Industry, including those involved in Master Planned Communities. The “highly sophisticated collaboration across many stakeholders” requires knowledgeable and experienced team members and successful knowledge transfer among team members. It also requires successful training of new incoming team members to the Industry of Master Planned Communities at all levels - students, professionals, and contractors.

  • Experience:

Terry Beaubois, CEO of BKS has 46 years of experience in building design. His influences range from NASA Space Station technology to the Montana ecoSMART House project, to the slum housing in Bangladesh, villages in India, to new communities in the U.S. and internationally -- studying and teaching how to address improving the Building Industry for creating homes for people in the 21st Century.

  • Online:

Online websites and interactive visits to master planned communities have become many people’s first experience of the community. From Websites to pdf brochures to online tours it is the first choice of many new home buyers as millennials become 30% of the buyers in some new master planned communities.

  • Communities:

As those in the Master Planned Communities market understand, communities are a much more complex issue than a single residence. Smart Houses, Smart Villages, Smart Campuses, and Smart Cities all have overlapping interests and needs.

  • International:

Considering approaches to communities in other countries, offers ideas and opportunities for communities in the U.S. that may not be visible when only looking at the U.S. communities.  Internationally there are significant concerns and solutions developing that are similar and some that are different from U.S. communities.

  • NASA / DoE / CERL:

These organizations are forward looking resources for the building industry regarding materials and building processes, but sometimes overlooked by the industry. In 1977 NASA began considering building habitats and not just vehicles. CERL (The US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab) explores technologies  Efforts by these groups have contributed technology from advanced window glass to 3D printing for technology transfer into the building industry.

  • Research:

The knowledge of coming advances that can benefit the Building Industry, often originate in the research labs of Universities, Industry, and Government.

  • Articles:

Articles written about master planned communities are often the best source of timely news about this segment of the building industry for those in the industry and those considering Master Planned Communities.

  • Competitive Advantage

onnecting with the community of people who will be considering locating in your Master Planned Community, is a complex and important aspect of FuturePlace an attendees. Knowledge of advancing technology that new homebuyers are interested in is important. Being the first to include tested, proven technologies in a master planned community can be a significant competitive advantage.

SMART COMMUNITIES

  • SMART Home

The Montana ecoSMART House Project in Bozeman, Montana is an award-winning project (MT-USGBC Honor Award) that included multi-disciplinary collaboration of Student, Professionals, Builders, and Product Manufacturers.

  • SMART Villages

Smart Villages - India project has been involved extensively with government officials, business leaders, Village residents, University faculty members and students, and participating in the holding of hackathons for improving Village life through Smart Villages.  India has 1.3 billion residents, 60% who live in villages.

  • SMART Campuses

The topic of Smart Communities includes  “Smart Campuses”. Raising awareness of students and surrounding communities, as students and surrounding community members increase their knowledge and appreciation of Smart Planned Communities. In addition to dormitories and classrooms, the students become more aware of and considered the Energy Facilities which is responsible to maintain energy to all of the buildings; transportation systems, commercial and retail including food, bookstores. Also entertainment venues, conference venues, performance auditoriums, sports venues (football, basketball, baseball, water sports, gymnastics etc., all contribute to the greater understanding of Community. 

As students learn about housing options, they become more aware of the variety of residential buildings for students and faculty including: on campus residence halls, apartments and suites, specialized small group houses, co-ops, academic themed housing communities, and fraternity and sorority Houses.

Just as studying international communities much can provide things to consider about the range and variety of community planning and design, the college campus variety of a master planned communities has much to offer for consideration, including integrating education opportunities within master planned communities - both online and/or in-person venues.

  • SMART Cities

Smart Master Planned Communities have an extremely strong role to play in the success of Smart Cities. Proximity to the city, can create opportunities and value to the urban centers as well as the planned community. Sometimes distance is good, allowing a master planned community to offer the space and amenities that aren’t found in urban environments. Also, a number of projects are developing or considering Urban Master Planned Communities  of various densities from infill to high-rise buildings, as elements in a Master Planned Community.

Regional awareness for Master Planned Communities and Smart Cities points out that transportation is a one example of a regional issue that is difficult to solve and address at only the community level. 

  • SMART Communities

The opportunities in Smart Master Planned Communities are unlimited as developers plan and build communities that incorporate more and more IoT aspects into the homes, as they reflect the increasing homeowner interest in IoT technology, healthy homes and online educational and business amenities.

FUTURE SMART

• 3D Printing:

NASA Moon - Mars bases 

NASA has already held Design Concept competitions for colleges and business to use 3D Printing technology for building buildings for future planned Moon and Mars missions. The material for such building would be the regolith and water found in those locations, because the cost of transporting those materials for building purposes, would be prohibitive.  The reason for these structures is to protect people from the naturally occurring extremely high levels of solar radiation that is harmful to humans. Radiation research undertaken by NASA  regarding the protecting astronauts from radiation provide valuable information for radon mitigation for building projects on Earth.

• 3D Printing:

CERL and Commercial buildings and homes 

The Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL) of the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) has been involved in both Moon-based and Earth-based  3D Printing concepts and trials. From bridge components to complete building CERL along with NASA, Universities and private industries are exploring this advanced technology. 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Terry Beaubois, CEO 
BKS: Building Knowledge Systems
555 Bryant St 948
Palo Alto, CA US 94301
650-388-6643
tbeaubois@gmail.com
zoom.com (online communication)

FuturePlace Notes:
http://www.bksco.com/futureplace