Engineering Research Center Stresses Metrics Over Mouth.

The article discusses the annual "summer session" conference held at the Stanford University in September 2016. Topics include views of Martin Fischer, director of Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE), on need of safer construction and Request for Information (RFIs), effort of automobile firm Tesla automobile to conflate work of building factory to produce cars into redesign resource- fabricate-erect process, and how efficiency gains are less credited to technology.