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Culture+Data for Better Capital Project Delivery

These recordings are from the New York City Department of Design and Construction's Town+Gown event on November 14, 2019.

Introduction & Project Update

This video features Town+Gown Director Terri Matthews presenting an introduction to the event and an update on a systemic construction data analysis project with Columbia University and the Data for Good (DFG) Program.
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Session 1

This video features the first session, "Culture for Better Capital Project Delivery," in which Town+Gown Director Terri Matthews moderates a panel of speakers who deliver presentations on various topics, including "Integrated Project Delivery Principles" with Professor Francisco Pineda, Columbia University School of Professional Studies; "Rapid Alignment Initiated Delivery" with Professors Andrew Bates and Frank Darconte, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; "Progressive or Collaborative Design-Build" with Steven Charney, Esq., Peckar & Abramson; and "Case Study: EDC and DB" with Patrick Askew, New York City Economic Development Corporation.
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Session 2

This video features the second session, "Project Management Tools and Techniques for Better Project Delivery," including "LEAN" by Sam Spata, Exyte and "Building Information Modeling" by Professor Lennart Andersson, Pratt Institute and Professor Andrew Bates, New York University Tandon School of Engineering.
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Session 3

This video features the third session, "Metrics that Matter--Discussion on Connecting Culture and Project Management to Data," including all presenters from earlier in the event and moderated by Professor Frank Darconte of NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
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About Town+Gown

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.

Town+Gown is also an open platform research program that uses service (experiential) learning and faculty-directed research to facilitate partnerships between academics and practitioners on applied built environment research projects through the collaborative inquiry model of systemic action research.

Town+Gown aims at increasing evidence-based analysis, information transfer, and understanding of the built environment, using, in many instances, New York City's built environment as a laboratory for practitioners working in the city's physical spaces, and academics in the built environment disciplines, with the ultimate objective of making changes in practices and policies based on research results.

Town+Gown's unique mission and services facilitate partnerships across the academic-practitioner divide, which involves negotiating differing expectations, motivations, understanding and language to produce work of benefit to both sides. Town+Gown provides initial links between practitioners working on projects as equal partners in knowledge creation with academics and provides support to these projects until completion, bridging the academic/practitioner divide that can make such projects challenging.

All practitioners and academics are welcome to participate in Town+Gown. To explore working within Town+Gown, please contact Director Terri Matthews at matthewte [[at]] ddc [[dot]] nyc [[dot]] gov (matthewte[at]ddc[dot]nyc[dot]gov) or (212) 313-3546.