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.
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.
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 Krijnen, Founder and principal engineer at AECgeeks.
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.
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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, Emerging Digital Engineering Manager at Lendlease and primary developer behind the Blender BIM Add-on.
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.
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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.
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.
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Our nineteenth episode has been curated by our guest BILT Academy correspondent and previous BILT Academy Podcast guest Mark Wieringa. This month’s podcast is the 2nd in our 4 part series on Open Source, and in this episode, Mark interviews Jon Mirtschin.
The BILT Academy team has started into a busy new year with not only pressing deadlines educationally as well as professionally, but the team is also very busy behind the curtains to shape a program for the BILT Academy Summit. So, Mark who was scheduled to co-pilot this episode with David took the initiative to support the team by taking on the lead on the open-source subject. Which turned out to be quite a journey of insights, vision and core knowledge. Since all interviewees have provided the BILT Academy with elaborate information we’ve decided to dedicate to each interviewee a podcast episode that will be airing within the first half of this year.
For this episode, mark partnered up with a long-time collaborator and inspiring veteran of the open source community, a source of deep knowledge and founder of many open source tools and initiatives. Mr. Jon Mirtschin of Geometry Gym.
Jon Mirtschin graduated with a double degree Bachelor of Engineering/Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He worked as a structural engineer for 10 years before starting Geometry Gym in 2009. Geometry Gym develops BIM software tools specifically for Model Exchange using OpenBIM standards such as IFC. These are primarily in the form of plugins for applications such as Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Tekla and various Structural Analysis applications.
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On Friday, December 24th, 2021 Episode eighteen of the BILT Academy Podcast went live. Our eighteenth episode is our last of 2021. For this Christmas Special, we see the entire BILT Academy return for a nice fireside chat.
We talk about what everyone enjoyed learning in 2021, what were the hot topics of 2021 for the AECO/BIM world. We also cover the must-have “Tech Gifts” for Christmas 2021, and what advice our BILT Academy correspondences would give students entering Higher Education in 2022.
On behalf of the entire BILT Academy crew, we wish all of our listeners a very Merry Christmas and a happier 2022.
Episode Nineteen – Coming January 27th, 2022
Be sure to tune in for our next episode on January 27th, 2022, where we continue our dive into the topic of open source with David and Mark.
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On Thursday, November 25th, 2021 Episode seventeen of the BILT Academy Podcast went live. Our seventeenth episode has been curated by our BILT Academy correspondent David. This month’s podcast is a BIM Technology podcast, and in it, David interviews industry expert Mark Wieringa
A teaser for episode seventeen. Tune in to the podcast to find out David’s great piece of wisdom.
David has been reading a lot lately about data exchange and the limitations we experience in the building industry when using specific or multiple technologies that don’t correspond directly which leads to data exchange that is inaccurate. Learning more and more about IFC and BCF, I wanted to learn what is open source exactly and who is driving this? For that very reason, I invited Mark Wieringa of Bimforce in the Netherlands a fierce advocate of the open-source use in the AEC industry, for a chat.
Here is more information about this month’s interviewee:
Mark Wieringa is a trained building engineer & architect who worked at one of the leading architectural firms in the Netherlands as their BIM manager. Where he worked on very large projects managing data, developing the company and a national BIM standard, the Dutch Revit Standards. In 2015 he started Bimforce with Martijn de Riet out of the belief that BIM could be smarter and the AEC industry could use better solutions. Bimforce uses Open Source technology such as IFC at the core of all their software. They’ve developed a data driven parametric IFC content library called VerteX, a digital twin system called GRiDS and a residential building generator using their own IfcGraph model.
Mark Wieringa
Some resources from this month’s episode:
Blender – Blender’s mission is to bring the best 3D technology as tools in the hands of artists, for all platforms, everywhere in the world, free and open source forever.
BlenderBIM – An add-on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender.
buildingSMART: BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) – The BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) allows different BIM applications to communicate model-based issues with each other by leveraging IFC data that have been previously shared among project collaborators.
Episode Eighteen – Coming December 17th, 2021
We return on December 17th when we continue our deep dive into the topic of open source.
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On Thursday, November 4th, 2021 Episode sixteen of the BILT Academy Podcast went live. Yes, we did return a tad delayed from our summer break but for a good reason, we wanted to accommodate the busy schedule of our interviewee!
For episode sixteen we invited Anthony Meijer, a student taking Built Environment at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, Netherlands to hop on board as guest narrator to this month’s topic.
In this month’s episode, we once again dive into the world of robotics. This time it was Anthony and his research that’s based on how the AEC industry can utilize robotics in construction that lead out show. To get his urgent questions on the topic answered he reached out to Brian Ringley of Boston Dynamics.
Here is more information about this month’s interviewee:
Brian Ringley is a construction technologist at Boston Dynamics where he manages Spot autonomy product development for dynamic sensing in changing environments like construction sites. Before coming to Boston Dynamics, he was a construction automation researcher in commercial real estate where he piloted emerging construction robotics products and stood up a factory for the industrialized construction of office space
Brian Ringley
Some resources from this month’s episode:
Brian Ringley’s publications, blogs and other media:
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On Thursday, July 29th, 2021 Episode Fifteen of the BILT Academy Podcast went live.
For episode fifteen we invited Hugo Taillandier, fellow Podcaster/ host of Today’s Architecture Podcast and student at Napiers University in Edinburgh to hop on board as guest correspondent to this month’s topic.
In this month’s episode, Hugo decided to venture into the topic of BIM Execution Planning, as he had not yet been really exposed to that topic and got curious in learning more about how project protocol is set up and executed accordingly. In order to get accessible and in-depth knowledge on this subject, He reached out to the eminent authority on BIM Execution Planning: Dr. Marzia Bolpagni.
Here is more information about this month’s interviewee:
Marzia works as Head of BIM International at Mace where she develops and implements digital construction solutions for public and private international clients in five international hubs. She holds a Ph.D. in ICT and Smart Construction and she is passionate about filling the gap between industry and academia. She is glad to be a member of the BIMExcellence Initiative, Assistant Editor of the BIM Dictionary where she coordinates more than 120 volunteers worldwide, Ambassador of the UK BIMAlliance and Expert at the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) TC 442 where she chairs a Task Group on information requirements standardization (Level of Information Need). She is the lead author of the Level of Information Need standard EN 17412-1, Chair of EC3 Modelling and Standards Committee and Honorary Lecturer at UCL The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. She is also the founder of Italians in Digital Transformation Uk, she loves sharing her knowledge with students and she is often invited as a keynote speaker at academic and industrial events. She received several awards for her activities including ‘Woman Ingenious’ in 2017, Star Award for Innovation and Service Excellence by Mace in 2019 and Young Engineer of the Year and Sir George Macfarlane Medal by the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Episode Sixteen and A New Season – Coming October 28th, 2021
Don’t miss out on our next Podcast airing on October 28th where we again go nuts on robots with our guest Narrator Anthony Meijer, a student in robotics and Boston Dynamic’s very own Brian Ringley!
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