buildingSMART International's Podcast

Rob Roef, buildingSMART Benelux and International Building Domain co-chair, chats to Richard Kelly as they cycle around the fascinating city of Rotterdam. They analyse the architecture and discuss the improvements that openBIM is delivering for the industry, as well as discussing Rob’s civil engineering career and the importance of Polder governance in the Netherlands. Here is a

Hear from CSO, Havard Bell from Catenda, a Norwegian-based, multinational software provider with a very clear outlook; that is, to be open and to instil the value of openness throughout its business and through its many customers around the world. Learn more about Catenda here: https://catenda.com/To find out more about the upcoming Summit, visit: https://hopin.com/events/bsslilles

David Ivey is a Senior Associate with HOK and also the co-Chair of buildingSMART International’s Building Domain. In this conversation, we discuss the progressive digitisation of the building industry, the pains of owning and operating, plus whole life value analysis challenges. We also take a brief foray into AI and cosmology.

Arisca Droog discusses her roles at Schiphol Airport and the buildingSMART International Airport Domain. We cover the benefits of digital transformation for the whole life asset management of the airport estate, elephants, and the importance of a fitness regime.

Tristan McDonnell served for many years on the buildingSMART International Infrastructure Room. We discuss this as well as his responsibilities being a Director at ARUP. We recall the experiences developing openBIM standards for infrastructure and the positive impact that IFC 4.3 is going to have on the industry. We also cover the importance of aligning to the bSI Strategic plan an

Alex Plenty has recently been elected to the buildingSMART International Building Domain Steering Committee. He discusses how openBIM standards are needed to improve buildings and infrastructure from the perspective of a new generation of digitally enabled industry leaders. We cover the responsibilities of tackling carbon reduction through better ways of working enabled by digital

Marc Goldman of Esri discusses his election to the buildingSMART International Infrastructure Domain Steering Committee, how BIM and GIS standards are going to reshape the future of the building and infrastructure industry, the emergence of digital twins and their real-world benefits, plus some insights into his personal life.Marc is Director of AEC Industry Solutions at Esri.https

Hear from Remi Dornier, Vice President, Architecture, Engineering & Construction at Dassault Systèmes about their current approach to sustainability, the need for digital technologies, the need for productization to support this, and how other areas of Dassault help to support the adoption for the AEC industry. Learn more at: https://www.3ds.com/Other related links:White Paper

Patrick shares his memories from his HOK days, whilst paying tribute to Richard Petrie, the late CEO of bSI. He also talks about the topic of sustainability, his book, and his new Podcast series with Gābl Media.You can find information about BUILD SMART here: https://gablmedia.com/show/buildsmart/Episode one of BUILD SMART: https://gablmedia.com/notes/01-introduction-big-problems-

This podcast is from January 2022.Tiina Perttula is the Chair of buildingSMART International Infrastructure Domain and InfraBIM specialist at Ramboll. In this conversation, she recounts her experiences of delivering digital transformation in the construction industry and explores the benefits of data sharing on complex projects, limitations still to be overcome, and a future with d