Welcome to the buildingSMART International Newsletter for September 2020. This edition is a dedicated newsletter for the buildingSMART Virtual Summit. Below we have the schedule for the first two days. The opening plenary and the programs and partner day. With over 100 speakers, 100 sessions and more engagement than ever before, don't miss out on the second virtual summit for 2020 for buildingSMART.
With just under 5 days to go, don't miss out. One ticket costing €199 EURO provides you with 10 days of content for the whole event.
This edition also includes some press alerts from a new chapter to signed MoUs with key industry partners.
26th October: A buildingSMART International Update
Hear from buildingSMART International executives on what's been happening in the community and some of the exciting developements in the industry today.
07:10: Chairman's Welcome
Patrick MacLeamy, Chairman, buildingSMART International
07:25: Chief Executive Update
Richard Petrie, Chief Executive buildingSMART International
07:50: Solutions and Standards Programme
Richard Kelly, Operations Director, buildingSMART International
08:10: Technical update
Léon van Berlo, Technical Director, buildingSMART International
08:40: Marketing Update Aidan Mercer,Marketing Director, buildingSMART International
26th October: Technology Driven Solutions and Standards
Find out how companies from around the globe are using buildingSMART standards to deliver real-world projects.
09:35: Jingxiong High Speed Railway
China Railway Design Aliiance
10:00: Congratulations
and Korea Airports Corporation - BIM project introduction
Chang-Wan Son, President & CEO of Korea Airports Corporation
10:05: Integrated Airport Facility Management System based on openBIM
Sunbae Moon, BIM manager of Korea Airports Corporation
10:25: How technology standards and collaboration can improve the built environment
Paul Surin Global Lead Built Environment, BIM at IBM & Lars Fredenlund CEO, Cobuilder
10:50: Major Projects: openBIM delivery in Australia
Gabor Gulyas, Operations Manager – Digital Engineering, DBM Vircon
11:15: Next generation of Digital Project Management
Veljko Janjic, President of Bexel Consulting
26th October: The Role of Open Standards: Owner Perspectives from Norway
buildingSMART Norway has been at the forefront of developing and implementing IFC and other related standards. Find out from this line-up of speakers about how they are doing it in their market.
12:10: The Contribution of Project Owners
Alexander Brage Hansen, Managing Director, buildingSMART Norway
12:20: Model based projects in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Alen Begic Technology and Development, Statens Vegvesen and Kjell Inge Davik, CEO
13:30: Statsbygg’s business case for openBIM
Steen Sunesen, PM for development and implementation of BIM
12:50: Taking openBIM to the next level – transforming workflows
Jorulv Rangnes, CEO, Jotne and Inge Aarseth, Vestfold Hospital
26th October: Creating an Ecosystem of Digital Twins
Digital Twins are fast becoming the most talked about topic today. buildingSMART has a working group and is engaged with other organisations to develop an ecosystem of digital twins. Hear from industry experts from the field of digital twins.
14:20: Digital Twin Introduction
Bart Brink, Director, Digital Twin, Royal HaskoningDHV
14:45: Data Integrity - the key to a successful ecosystem of digital twins
Frank Weiss, Senior Director, New Products and BIM Innovation, Oracle
15:10: E-construction Platform - From Vision to Reality
Jaan Saar, Head of Digital Construction for the Estonian Government
15:35: The Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (CDBB) National Digital Twin
Mark Enzer, CTO, Mott MacDonald and Leader of the National Digital Twin Program for the CDBB
16:00: Smart Places From Systems of Record to Systems of Reality
Ron Zahavi Chief Strategist for IoT Standards, Azure IoT, Microsoft
16:25: The Evolution of Digital Twins and the Industries they Transform
Dan Isaacs VP and Technical Director, Digital Twin Consortium
26th October: The Role of Open Standards: A Perspective from the USA
The USA has delivered many innovative programs and projects and has driven collaboration through the use of open standards such as IFC Bridge. You will hear fron experts from this market.
17:10: An Update from the US Chapter - Infrastructure and Public Buildings
Ian Howell and Calvin Kam, buildingSMART USA Chapter
17:35: IFC and BIM Mandates: AASHTO and US State DOT Perspective
Michael Kennerly, US State Departments of Transportation
18:00: Moving to Open Standards and Digital Delivery
Will Sharp, Global Director of Highways at HDR
18:25 : Perspective from GSA
Charles Matta Director for Building Information Programs & Deputy CIO, GSA
27th October: The buildingSMART Programs
buildingSMART has a variety of programs. The Solutions and Standards, User and Compliance programs enable the holistic approach required for delivering value to all industry stakeholders. In this session you will learn more about the ongoing activities and contributing factors to the community.
07:15: Technical services
Léon van Berlo, Technical Director, buildingSMART International
07:30: bSI Professional Certification
Mark Baldwin, Leader, bSI Professional Certification
08:00: Software Certification
Rasso Steinmann, Deputy Chair, buildingSMART International
08:30: bSI Use Case Management
Thomas Glaettli, Managing Director, buildingSMART Switzerland
09:00: The buildingSMART Data Dictionary
Léon van Berlo, Technical Director, buildingSMART International
27th October: Tech Experts Session
Technology has been a driving force in buildingSMART with many innovations and applications developed over the years. Hear from some of the most innovative and impressive projects from around the world.
10:00: Free software in AEC
Dion Moult, Emerging Digital Engineering Manager at Lendlease
10:25: Tutorial: How to generate high quality IFC exports
Hans Hendriks and Scott Beazley, Revit
10:50: Experimenting with new IFC extensions
Neil Peterson, President, ODA
11:15: Tutorial: How BCF can help you raise your productivity
Mathijs Natrop, Mikko Huovila, Gabor Almasi and Kenneth Solvik with support from Pasi Paasiala and Yoram Kulbak
11:40: How "Pointcloud + IFC = BCF" ?
Kyle Tan, CEO, Airsquire and Serkan Sen, Head of BIM, Ballast Nedam
27th October: buildingSMART Projects
Standards development is a fundamental part of the buildingSMART story. Projects are initiated, managed and delivered by a wide range of companies that focus on domains. In this session learn about some of the major projects happening in the community today.
13:00: IFC Rail Project | Modeling the Real Rail World
Winfried Stix, Chair of buildingSMART International Railway Room and Christian Erismann
13:25: IFC Road
Karin Anderson Senior BIM Specialist at the Swedish Transport Administration
13:50: IFC Tunnel
Michel Rives, Director Associate, Vianova France and Andre Borrmann, Professor, Technical University of Munich
14:15: IFC Ports and Waterways
Nick Nisbet, Director, AEC3 Ltd
27th October: Partnerships
buildingSMART has a wide network of partners. In this session you will hear from key people from other industry organisations and the engagement model to further develop these relationships.
15:05: Hear from OGC
Bart De Lathouwer President, OGC
15:30: Standards from GS1
Enzo Blonk Director Community Engagement, Technical Industries, GS1
15:55: GeoBIM for Resilient Infrastructure
Sanjay Kumar, Secretary General & CEO World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC).
16:20: ODA and buildingSMART
Neil Peterson, ODA president
27th October: ICMS Panel Discussion
Watch this lively debate between bSI and the International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS) and learn more about some of the strategic plans and approaches being made by both organizations.
With Richard Petrie and Leon van Berlo of bSI and Ken Creighton, Alan Muse and Andrew Knight of ICMS.
buildingSMART International and Digital Twin Consortium Sign Memorandum of Understanding
buildingSMART International and the Digital Twin Consortium signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to align activities and joint working groups. This strategic initiative further strengthens the accelerated focus on the topic of digital twins.
buildingSMART International Welcomes Slovenia as a New Chapter in Development
buildingSMART International is pleased to announce a new Chapter recently approved by the board. buildingSMART Slovenia formally submitted their application for consideration to the buildingSMART board and enters the status of “Developing Chapter”.
buildingSMART International Joins the International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS)
buildingSMART International has joined the International Construction Measurement Standards (ICMS) coalition to develop and implement international standards for benchmarking, measuring and reporting construction project cost.
