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Proudly we are announcing this year BILT Academy keynote talk will be held by Jose Ariza. He is going to talk about: How to win the race of digital transformation in the AEC industry (Spanish: Como ganar la Carrera de la transformación digital en el sector AEC).
Jose Ariza is a Mechanical Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in the AEC industry working on multidisciplinary projects. He works as EMEA Technical Specialist at Autodesk focusing on cloud collaboration and digital transformation for different industry segments in EMEA helping multidiscipline customers to achieve their business goals using Autodesk Technology.
Luis and Pedro are going to lead the workshop 5 Introduction to Parametric Design with Grasshopper 3d.
Luis Fraguada is a developer at McNeel Europe, specializing in AEC applications, interoperability, 3d on the web, and 3rd party developer support. Luis joined McNeel Europe in 2015 and is currently developing on several projects, including rhino3dm and Rhino.Compute. Luis also helps to manage the development of Food4Rhino, a platform for 3rd party developers to share their apps and resources with the Rhino community. In addition to this role, Luis initiated and manages McNeel Europe’s participation in EU Funded research projects including Innochain, V4Design, MindSpaces, and Ecolopes.
Pedro Cortés is a developer and technical support specialist at McNeel Europe. Since he joined the company in 2021, he is involved in the development of several projects, including Rhino.Inside Revit. Pedro also has experience as a Rhino and Grasshopper trainer, coordinating the Training Course for Resellers and participating as a teacher in events and workshops. In addition, Pedro collaborates in Food4Rhino webinars, a series of talks in which professionals and experts share their advances in the use of new technologies (AI, ML) with McNeel tools (Grasshopper, Rhino.Compute, Rhino.Inside).4
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Moty will be leading workshop 4 on Quality control in multi-disciplinary projects. In this workshop, students will be introduced to the most important aspects of quality control in a multi-disciplinary working environment. BIM models will be discussed regarding the requirements per discipline, reaching from architects, structural engineers and HVAC. Specific software will be introduced that allows BIM managers to evaluate the quality of each model and in combination with each other. As a result, you will understand how to report and communicate issues among stakeholders.
Moty Vaknin Is a CTO at WeBIM, a Company based in Israel. WeBIM is an innovative company that has a strong passion to improve the construction industry by applying BIM methodology throughout the whole project lifecycle. Moty is We BIM Education Manager for Autodesk ATC (authorized Training Center) and AAP (Autodesk Academic Centre) in Israel. With over 10 years Working and Training in BIM Platforms. Moty is one of the forerunners of the BIM revolution in Israel.
Kelly is going to lead workshop 3 on Reality Capture with Laser Scanning. This class will delve into the world of point cloud data processing. A number of the recent scan to BIM projects will be presented and discussed. We’ll play with some scan data (surveyed at UPV) and attendees will gain an insight into practical modelling procedures for as-built projects and experience semi-automated Scan-to-BIM software.
I am passionate about process and technology innovation and how they can change industries and people’s lives. My education is in architectural design and documentation, but my experience within the AEC space is far more varied.
I have implemented various practice technologies into design, estimating, and construction teams and workflows; worked on amazing projects such as the SaRang Global Ministry center in Seoul as a designer, and Renzo Piano’s addition to the Louis Kahn Kimbell Art Museum as a contractor; and have had the privilege of growing and leading one of the most talented VDC & Process Innovation teams in the industry.
Those experiences have taught me there is a better way to create our built environment, and I want to make that way become a reality. As a first step in that journey, I have joined ClearEdge3D to help them develop the tools necessary for design and construction firms to get the most out of reality capture within the AEC industry, with the goal of closing the gap between the virtual and real world.
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Francisco is going to lead workshop 1 on BIM management in the design phase from an architectural perspective. This workshop covers the fundamentals of information management in digital design projects and interdisciplinary collaboration efforts.
Francisco Tabanera is a technical leader and partner at Modelical. With a background as an architect for several years at Sagrada Familia’s design team, Francisco joined Modelical to help with several tasks, from challenging large project development to corporate implementation. Currently, he is the leader of the Innovation department in Modelical. Francisco got his Bachelor in Architecture from Barcelona Tech – ETSAB and earned a Master in Advanced Design and Digital Architecture from ELISAVA.
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Bernardette will be leading workshop 2 on BIM and LCA implementation in the design process. This workshop focuses on theoretical and practical aspects to integrate an environmental assessment based on the Life Cycle Assessment method in the design process in BIM.
Bernardette Soust-Verdaguer is a Ph.D. Architect, who developed her career in various countries such as Uruguay, France, Spain, working in the field of sustainable buildings, especially on the use of environmental assessment tools and digital design tools such as BIM. Currently, she is working as a researcher and invited Professor at the University of Seville (School of Architecture) where participates in National and International Projects (IEA EBC Annex 72) focused on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and BIM integration. She is associated to the Green Building Council España, where participates in the Circular Economy working group.
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Welcome to the BILT Academy Podcast!
Our twenty-second episode has been curated by our guest BILT Academy correspondent and previous BILT Academy Podcast guest Mark Wieringa. This month’s podcast is the final in our 4 part series on Open Source, and in this episode, Mark interviews Thomas Krijnen.
For this episode, Mark had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas Krijen about open source and getting technical about IFC.
Here are this month’s interviewees:
Thomas has worked as a Senior Software Engineer for the software development and consultancy firm ‘Gehry Technologies’. He has completed his PhD research on efficient storage and retrieval of semantically stored building models and point clouds. Thomas is the founder of a company called AECgeeks which specializes in research and software development for the Architecture Engineering and Construction industry. With the latter, he has worked for governmental clients on state-of-the-art automated code compliance checking and worked with renowned research institutes, standardization organizations and a variety of small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups.
Open source projects under development:
* IfcOpenShell
https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell
Open source IFC software library
* Voxelization toolkit
https://github.com/opensourceBIM/voxelization_toolkit
Voxelized building model analysis toolkit
* ifc-pipeline
https://github.com/AECgeeks/ifc-pipeline
Processing queue and front-end for visualizing BIM models with IfcOpenShell, Docker Compose and Flask
google scholar
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=x3ZtBTEAAAAJ
twitter
https://twitter.com/aothms
personal web page
http://thomaskrijnen.com/
company web page
http://aecgeeks.com/
questions/discussions on IfcOpenShell
https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/discussions
issues on IfcOpenShell
https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues
You can listen on The BILT Academy Podcast website, or right here on the BILT Academy blog by going to the Podcast tab.
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We would like to thank our podcast technology sponsor BIM Track for their continued support of BILT Academy.
Welcome to the BILT Academy Podcast!
Our twenty-first episode has been curated by our guest BILT Academy correspondent and previous BILT Academy Podcast guest Mark Wieringa. This month’s podcast is the 3rd in our 4 part series on Open Source, and in this episode, Mark interviews Dion Moult.
For this episode, Mark had the pleasure of interviewing Dion Moult about open source and BlenderBIM.
Here are this month’s interviewees:
Dion Moult has worked in software development, architecture, and the construction industry, and is the primary developer behind the BlenderBIM Add-on. He has been involved in a wide range of open-source projects for over a decade. These projects include the Gentoo Linux distribution, KDE project for desktop environments, Blender for 3D content creation, FreeCAD for parametric solid modelling, Radiance for light simulation, OpenStreetMaps / OpenStreetCam for GIS and computer vision datasets, and IfcOpenShell for BIM and open-data tools for the built environment.
LinkedIn: Dion Moult
Twitter: @BlenderBIM
We return on April 28th with our final episode of a 4-part series on open source.
You can listen on The BILT Academy Podcast website, or right here on the BILT Academy blog by going to the Podcast tab.
You can also check out The BILT Academy Podcast on your favourite podcast app or service by clicking the icons below.
If your podcast app or service of choice is not listed above, no worries we are on many others. You can access the full list of all the podcast apps and services we are available on over at The BILT Academy Podcast Website. Just click on the “More” button to see the list and click on the logo of your choice to add the podcast to your feed. Still don’t see what you are looking for try searching “The BILT Academy Podcast” in your favourite app or service and our feed should appear, if all else fails our RRS feed should do the trick.
If you enjoyed the podcast please like and subscribe. You can also give us a follow on Social Media to stay up to date on all things BILT Academy and BILT Academy Podcast.
We would like to thank our podcast technology sponsor BIM Track for their continued support of BILT Academy.
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Our twentieth episode has been curated by our newest BILT Academy correspondent and previous BILT Academy Podcast guest correspondent Hugo Taillandier. This month’s podcast is all about Generative Design, with insight from our subject matter expert Jacob Small.
For this episode, Hugo interviewed Jacob Small, Technical Consultant for Autodesk in the field of Generative Design. Hugo is new to the topic of Generative Design but thought a great way to learn was to dive right in and have a candid discussion with someone that works with it every day.
Here is this month’s interviewee:
After graduating Wentworth Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Architecture in 2006, Jacob began his AEC career doing high-end homes and small commercial projects at a small firm on the north shore of Massachusetts, doing everything from vacation chalets to kitchen renovations; hotels and accessible entrances for coffee chains using a 2D CAD system. In 2009 he began using Revit in practice and proceeded to look to implement all the time savings he could get his hands on; this eventually led to him moving to CBT Architects in Boston where he was first able to begin implementing computational design into his BIM efforts, soon becoming an active member of the Dynamo community. In 2017 he joined Autodesk as a Designated Support Specialist, where he’s helped design firms around the world avoid and resolve issues as they apply Autodesk technology in their practice and get the most out of their investment. Currently, he is transitioning into a new role as a Technical consultant, where he hopes to implement even more Generative Design solutions for companies and users around the world.
Jacob’s Contact Info:
Email: Jacob.Small@autodesk.com
Twitter: @JacobWSmall
LinkedIn: Jacob Small
Jacob’s Autodesk University Class on Generative Design and Hogwarts
Generative Design at Hogwarts: Using Tech Instead of Magic
A PDF of all the Resouces and links Jacob mentioned in the episode.
We return March 31st with our 3rd episode of a 4-part series on open source.
You can listen on The BILT Academy Podcast website, or right here on the BILT Academy blog by going to the Podcast tab.
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We would like to thank our podcast technology sponsor BIM Track for their continued support of BILT Academy.
