Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for March 2021. This edition is a dedicated newsletter for the buildingSMART Virtual Summit Spring 2021 and the
Digital Construction Event _xCH21. Below we have the schedule for the first three days: the Opening Plenary, Roundtables and the day three bSI Keynotes. It is worth noting that the Roundtables will have three language options for you to select - German, English and French.
With just under 5 days to go, don't miss out. A full summit ticket costs €199 EURO and provides you with access to 10 days of content. Also, don't worry if you miss a live session as all videos will be made available to you within 24-48 hours as on-demand material.
This edition also includes German speaking sessions hosted by buildingSMART Switzerland as part of the _xCH21 event.
Patrick MacLeamy -Chairman, buildingSMART International
07:20Chief Executive Update
Richard Petrie - Chief Executive, buildingSMART International
07:40 Operations Update
Richard Kelly - Operations Director, buildingSMART International
08:00 Technical Update
Léon van Berlo - Technical Director, buildingSMART International
08:20 Marketing Update Aidan Mercer - Marketing Director, buildingSMART International
08:40 Update from Switzerland Paul Curschellas - Vice President, Bauen digital Schweiz & Birgitta Schock - Chairwoman, buildingSMART Switzerland
09:10 Welcome from SBB Adrian Wildenauer - Head of BIM Standards, Swiss Federal Railways SBB AG
15th March: Sustainability Through Best Practice
The topic of sustainability is high on the agenda. Hear how these keynotes are addressing the complex challenges facing the industry.
09:50 Finnish State BIM Strategy
Anna-Riitta Kallinen and Pekka Virkamäki - Ministry of the Environment of Finland
10:10 Green Building and BIM
Kay Killman - Head of Europe, GBCI Europe
10:30
Dr Chris Luebkeman - Head of Strategic Foresight, ETH Zürich
10:50
Jon Könz - Head of Smart Infrastructure Industry Affairs, Siemens
11:10
Maike Stroetmann - Head of BIM Department, Bouygues Energies & Services
11:30
Michael Dobler - Head Global Account Management, Schindler
15th March: buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use
This session is focused on the standards and solutions used in practice. You will also hear about some of the results from the IFC 2x3 survey.
13:00 Introduction
Léon van Berlo - Technical Director, bSI
13:20
Pasi Paasiala - Principal Architect, Solibri
13:40 PPP A 10/A 24 Life cycle approach with openBIM
Thomas Tschickardt - Digital Construction Manager, Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
14:00 Utilising the cloud and BCF for risk management and data driven analytics
Thomas Flannery - Digital Engineering Lead, Lendlease
14:40 Publishing and sharing information delivery requirements using bSDD
Ronald Bergs - Director / Managing Partner at Gobar Consulting Group & Anouk van Otterlo - BIM & Linked data consultant, BASED
15th March: The Rise of Digitization
Hear about all things digital and the need to adopt technologies to support the industry. These keynotes will focus on how digitization is having a positive impact.
15:30
Rita Sanfilippo - Head of BIM, Lombardi
15:50 Building on AI
Dalith Steiger - Co-founder and Managing Partner, SwissCognitive
16:10
Matthias Wasem - Managing Partner, BIM Facility AG
16:30
Frédéric Gal - Director of Engineering, Bouygues Construction
16:40 Tips and tricks to get the most out of ArchiCAD
David Delgado Vendrell - Architect and openBIM Consultant, DDV
17:00 10 tips for using IFC in Sketchup
Stijn van Schaijk - BIM Process Manager, VolkerWessels
On Wednesday 17th there will be two sets of sessions running in parallel. Keynotes from buildingSMART Chapters and Sponsors as well as masterclasses in German hosted by buildingSMART Switzerland. Visit the event website to take a look at the masterclass schedule.
This project incorporates lessons learned from the years of national use of the “2009 Basic FM Handover MVD”, which aims to return the specification to the essential requirement of delivering building equipment maintenance information. Read more here.
Trimble Joins the Strategic Advisory Council
As an existing member of buildingSMART International, Trimble’s intention to move to the SAC signals commitment to open data standards by enabling a strategic input into the buildingSMART community. Read more here.
The Digital Twins Podcast series
buildingSMART International has launched a variety of Podcasts. With many topics discussed under the umbrella of "Digital Twins", you can learn from industry leaders about their approach to open standards, collaboration and other topics. You can listen to some of the episodes here.
New Member alert
buildingSMART International is delighted to announce that Pragoprojekt has joined as a standard member. They are a project engineering company with wide experience in the field of transport and engineering construction, both at home and abroad. Read more here.
Expert Panel to Review the “IDM Development for Building Energy Modelling” Report
The report “IDM Development for Building Energy Modelling” is now undergoing a review by a panel of building energy modeling domain experts and stakeholders from the global building design, construction, and operations industry. Read more here.
Room Activities
Are you keen to learn more about what happens in the Rooms? There is a new resource page that shows output from the work done in Rooms from reports to deliverables covering a wide range ofasset domains. Read more here.
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