纽约的建设在数据革命中被抛在后面，如果我们不放弃提供数据并停止将其保留在单独的公共代理机构孤岛中的抵抗力，我们将永远不会前进。

You can't measure what you don't have or can't see.

Workers compensation boards throughout the country would like to have electronically transmitted information from an employer to start the employer data process. That would help buildpowerful databases of background information about the employer now possible from inception.With broader data collection, the creation of integrated databases becomes possible.

How can this data be organized and used properly, instead of being duplicative and unconnected to other pertinent employer/employee project information in state and federal work?

In New York, for instance at this time, collected and stored background information on employers differs within each contracting authority, whether it be the Dept. of Design and Construction (DDC), the Mayor's Office of Contract Services (MOCS), the School Construction Authority (SCA), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, or the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY)

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必须采取更广泛的视图来创建一个全州的主数据库，而不是以自己的“孤立”信息为基础的新存储库。当前的行业数据库状态使得不可能交叉参考相关的工作历史和合同社区中存在的其他相关信息。

“以电子方式”有效地传输数据的想法是对解释开放的，但是从根本上讲，该想法必须需要使用开放平台并商定“载体”语言和模式（即XML，请参见AGCXML Initiative，xbrlsurety/Financial Data“标签”等）。这种基本方法是创建“集成数据库”的公共利益的核心。

Data has to be "exchangeable" between proprietary systems, otherwise it is essentially stuck.

At Component Assembly Systems, the interior wall and ceiling contractor our family is the majority owner and operator of, we are currently working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on exchanging wall and ceiling information (the WALLie project), which includes relevant schemas related to manpower. Other such projects are underway in electrical, mechanical and other trades requiring "layered," exchangeable data.

构建信息建模（BIM）可以扩展到包括有用的项目薪资数据，但前提是在不同的工作组之间可以转移。

Theproblem with certified payroll reports in many jurisdictions, which we submit regularly (often in paper form still), is that the data is flat and one dimensional.

Adding Crucial Task, Work Area Data

例如，通过添加员工的任务和工作区域，项目管理机构可以跟踪建筑物内部构建建筑物内部的实际时间，或者需要花费多长时间的楼梯间。这些历史信息可用于从概念上估算未来的工作，并根据计划阶段的假设对所有者的预算进行检查。

The New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate should be credited with proving this out in a Masters paper from students in 2013. The paper, entitled, "Productivity in the Construction Industry," had some typical or possibly weaker theses in the final result.

However, one thing was crystal clear: there was little to "no micro data", as they called it, and without the right mix of data, so called Big Data associations are impossible. (The study was funded by the New York Building Congress Foundation which grants research projects and money to the effort, to their credit.)

This was an important finding that we know exists, but was borne out in the students' inability to get data to even do a qualified study on the issue.

Correct collection practices also enables payroll information to be rolled up and tied to project scheduling and billing. A benefit to the subcontractors can be lower retainage (held money), since more clarity and transparency has been added to the process.

例如，例如，目前，检查人员手动收集了纽约DDC的此类信息，然后输入内部数据库进行索赔/变更顺序类型分析，而不是管理实时字段跟踪和进度。

More importantly, information that is useful and connected attracts different sets of "eyeballs," so it can be broken apart for those who want to use it for different purposes.

This is the essence of what databases do: enable data modeling and cross referencing, thus allowing for the implementation of analytical methods to detect patterns of fraud in worker's compensation and prevailing wage issues.

Without the power of a tiered, industry wide schema and proper data design, additional databases will be not be ready to perform and incorporate predictive analytics efficiently and properly.

通过这种方法，可以实现适当的分包商关闭过程，在此，将雇主信息报告的质量和及时性视为评估子绩效的一部分。

与我们当前的“rip和阅读”招标模式n most places, lowest price wins the day and poor data collection or lack of proper information exchange is not considered, since there is no overall strategy on the use and requirements of payroll information besides perfunctory type data, i.e. name, worker/union classification, Davis-Bacon hours, rate, etc.

Widespread Resistance

行业对这类变化的抵抗是广泛的和根深蒂固的。

州和城市机构没有协调，并指出他们真正需要的东西，并过于依赖GC/CM来设置数据需求/标准。这种做法使每个项目在报告的可跟踪，有用信息的数据集中不同。

An email or an excel spread sheet from a sub, rekeyed, does not fall within the concept of a functioning integrated database.

至于潜艇，我们是现金扣除，不愿意增加现有的报告要求，同时也认为此任务/区域信息是专有的，并且不必要。许多人喜欢提醒我们，我们存在于“那个时候忘记的行业”中，但是如果没有基线任务报告，我们就无法记住它！

Recently, a wage reporting requirement in the affordable housing industry in New York City passed into law by the City Council (over Mayor Bloomberg's veto 38-0) has been stayed pending a lawsuit filed by the New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH).

Such delays and impediments to proper data tracking and prevailing wage reporting needs to be overcome for our world to change finally. The case is still pending and will surely be appealed whatever the decision, thus lengthening the time private owners have to report to the City this necessary wage information.

Itis in the data collection design that the solutions will come, not in a disparate set of information adding to our already confused and apparent project-to-project amnesia.

We can do much better!