A new coalition of four firms is making a joint open call for technology solutions that could advance new, and changing, COVID-19 safety standards – with the promise that workable findings and best practices will be shared with the industry at large.
由Black＆Veatch，DPR Construction，Haskell和McCarthy Building Cos。组成的下一个联盟发起了建筑安全挑战赛，该挑战是呼吁近乎市场的技术呼吁，该技术涉及不断发展的COVID-19 COVID-19的安全标准，并且可以快速开发，规模缩放并部署。
麦卡锡南加州地区总裁迈克·迈尔斯（Mike Myers）表示，该联盟是三周前成立的，当时布莱克·瓦奇（Black＆Veatch）于3月推出了类似的概念ingitex covid-19响应加速器，该响应响应者于3月伸出援手。迈尔斯将伙伴关系称为“不介意”，因为它的使命（推动思想和创新）与麦卡锡的信念保持一致，即安全发生通过协作。
迈尔斯说：“这是开源的，因此我们试图尽快接触任何人和所有人，因为挑战是现在。”一旦提交想法，它们就会分配给一家公司，该公司将测试和评估技术并以其可行性发现向联盟报告。每个公司都会为自己的测试提供资金。联盟不是利润中心；全面发展和实施思想的资金尚未确定。
Brett Spence, a member of Black & Veatch’s innovation strategy team Growth Accelerator, is excited about the possibilities around contact tracing and notes that concepts by tech giants like Apple Inc. and Google Inc. could be useful, but not necessarily applicable if groups don’t use compatible technology. While too soon to tell, Spence also sees promise in ideas around ozone cleaning and temperature checks installed in restrooms. For any concept, time is of the essence.
“We don’t have time to incubate something for a year,” Spence says. The coalition will accept new partners and expects to share workable findings with the industry at large. “When it comes to keeping people safe, we all shouldn’t worry about things like competition. We should really be driving solutions together, and it’s neat to see it actually happening, especially in this crazy world we live in and it happening so quickly.”
该联盟正在寻找可能包括筛查，移动应用程序，消毒，可穿戴设备，联系跟踪和PPE的技术，该技术适用于安全政策合规性，筛选，跟踪和跟踪，实时通信，事件跟踪和数据分析。Haskell建筑技术经理Hamzah Shanbari希望参赛作品来自建筑行业初创公司，这些初创公司正在旋转和调整概念和工具，以满足COVID-19的需求，需要对产品量表的帮助。
McCarthy’s Myers points to a need for advancing PPE, especially as summer approaches. Where face coverings are required, workers face complications like fogging eye protection and possible heat exhaustion that could spurred by PPE meant to protect them. Sanitation and social distancing technology development is also need, and Myers says changes due to automation and other innovations could have long-term industry impact.
Michelle Gray, DPR Construction safety leader in Sacramento, Calif., notes that current COVID-19 protocols are reactive, not proactive, and were implemented to immediately protect people, keep projects online and the workforce working. Now, Gray says the industry has the chance to devise ways to protect workers and ensure preparedness for disruptions.
“The beauty of open-source safety is people might see simple things from a different perspective and create a great tool or technology to meet a known or unknown need,” says Gray.
