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Chair EU BIM Task Group, EU BIM Task Group
Dr. Souheil Soubra is Chair of the EU BIM Task Group (http://www.eubim.eu/), he is also the Director of the IT department at CSTB (www.cstb.fr). His main fields of interest include Simulation Environments, Building Information Modelling, Geographical Information Management, Virtual and Augmented Reality. He is managing CSTB’s IT department working on digital transition for the construction sector and in the frame of which two innovative immersive spaces have been put in place. Souheil Soubra is a member of various expert committees in “Construction IT” and has co-authored several publications and books in this field. He is a member of various BIM related standardization bodies (CEN TC 442, ISO TC 59 / SC13). He is currently contributing to the French “Plan BIM 2022”. This plan was launched in January 2019 by the ministry of housing in order to prepare a large-scale deployment of BIM in the French construction sector.
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Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Architecture
Phil Bernstein is an architect, technologist and educator who is Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture, where he received his B.A (honors) and M.Arch and has taught since 1988. He was formerly a Vice President at Autodesk where he was responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for BIM technology as well as cultivating and sustaining the firm’s relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Prior to Autodesk Phil was a principal at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions. He is the author Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (2018) and co-editor of Building (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture (2010 with Peggy Deamer), and speaks and writes extensively on technology, practice and project delivery. His book on the implications of artificial intelligence for architectural practice will be published by RIBA in 2022.
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Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB)
A native New Yorker, Alanna Gluck has worked in local, regional and national government programme delivery in the United States and Spain before relocating to the UK, where she received her MSc in Public Policy and Management in 2017 from King’s College London. In her current role of Policy and Public Affairs Manager at CDBB, Alanna sits on a number of steering groups and programme teams in both an advisory and delivery capacity, providing insight on built environment policy development and consensus building, and leading on national and international government engagement activities. She is passionate about how digital built environment policy and infrastructure delivery can improve social and economic outcomes for people and places, with a special interest in the interface between the digital operation of infrastructure and improved public services such as health and education.
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Head of International, Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB)
Adam and his team assist policy makers and national committees on strategies to encourage the digitalization of the construction sector. Since 2012, he has collaborated with over 40 countries and multi-lateral organisations across Europe, Latin America, Asia and the US, to increase the public sector benefit from the introduction of digital, specifically building information modelling; and grow opportunities for international trade by aligning digital standards.
With over 30 years’ experience in information technology, policy, strategy and change management across various sectors, including utility infrastructure, retail and airports, he was a lead member of the UK’s BIM Task Group in 2010, he co-authored the UK Government’s BIM Strategy (2011) and designed the UK’s international BIM program methodology (2017). Adam was a founding member and Chair of the EU BIM Task Group (2015-2018); and lead author of the EU BIM Task Group’s 2017 “Handbook for the Public Sector introduction of BIM”. He has a BSc (Hons) in decision science, holds an MBA in construction sector policy and sustainability, MBCS (UK) and is currently DBA doctoral researcher at Cranfield School of Management.
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Deputy Director, Infrastructure & Construction, Department of Business Energy & Industry Strategy
Fergus Harradence leads for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on sponsorship of the construction sector. Since joining the Civil Service in 2000, he has worked in a number of departments in a range of economic policy roles, including trade policy, export promotion, innovation and corporate tax. His current responsibilities include BEIS’ policies to help improve the performance of the construction sector, the Department’s contribution to the Government’s house-building ambitions, and its relationship with the Construction Leadership Council.
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Head of Digital Construction, Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Jaan has managed processes and IT in the construction industry for over 15 years. He joined the public sector in 2018 with the goal to digitally transform construction in Estonia. He is currently working on developing the “e-construction platform” which will provide the digital infrastructure for sharing data and services related to the built environment. He is also the Chair of Construction Classification International Collaboration (CCIC), Deputy Chair of the EU BIM Task Group and a member of the buildingSMART Board of Directors.
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Director of BIM Strategy Department, Czech Agency for Standardization
Jaroslav Nechyba has devoted his entire professional career since 1990 to building and developing the company, which he co-owned until 2017. The company operates in the field of consulting, development, and implementation of systems for the construction industry. Jaroslav Nechyba also has many years of deep experience in the field of analysis and implementation of new processes, information systems, data links,and change management in general.
In the years 2015 – 2018, Jaroslav Nechyba worked in a professional construction association, which brought the opportunity to intensively participate in the preparation of documents for the Strategy of the Implementation of BIM in the Czech Republic, which was under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Since January 2018, he devotes fully implementing the Strategy as Director of BIM Strategy department in the Czech Agency for Standardization. He is currently also a member of the steering committee of EU BIM Task group and the vice-chair of the CCIC (Construction Classification International Collaboration) non-profit organisation advocating the adoption of a common construction classification system.
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Regional Project Management Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean in UNOPS
Nigel is an infrastructure and project management specialist with over 20 years of experience in the management and development of several types of infrastructure projects. He has worked in several international firms such as Bilfinger Berger as a Senior Site Engineer in the construction of the Centennial Bridge; McKinney International, implementing logistics and infrastructure initiatives; and as Senior Project Manager, leading banking, residential and commercial projects in Panama, before joining UNOPS in 2013.
Nigel is Panamanian, he graduated as Civil Engineer from Universidad Santa María La Antigua, and has Master’s degree in Engineering Management from the University of Louisville. He also obtained several certifications, such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, P3O, among others.
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Managing Director, Built Environment & Innovation Institute, Building and Construction Authority
Mr. Tai Fatt CHENG is the Managing Director of Built Environment Research & Innovation Institute (BERII) in the Building and Construction Authority.
In BERII, he oversees the development and implementation of Built Environment R&I solutions in focused areas identified under the Construction ITM. He helped to formulate the BIM/IDD roadmap and is tasked to drive a highly integrated construction value chain by harnessing use of construction IT such as BIM and Integrated Digital Delivery technologies. He is also a buildingSmart International Fellow.
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Architect with experience in Management and Coordination of highly complex projects through methodology and BIM software platform in the stages of study, development and execution, and also implementation of this methodology in private companies and public institutions. He is currently part of the Planbim team, in charge of the implementation of the BIM methodology in Public Institutions in the State of Chile; such as the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Housing; carrying out actions to standardize their processes, emphasizing the use of open standards for the transfer of information.
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President of Latin American Governments BIM Network
Carolina Soto is Executive Director of Planbim_Corfo, a program of the State of Chile that promotes the use of BIM. Since its creation, in 2015, she has led this initiative, which aims to promote the digital transformation of the construction industry at a country level. In addition, she is currently President of the BIM Network of Latin American Governments.
She is an architect of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has a Master of Science in Design and Computation from MIT.
She has worked both in the development and application, research and teaching of digital technologies for the construction industry, with a particular focus on BIM.
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Productivity Co-ordinator, Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio (Ministry of housing, city, and territory)
Head of the Productivity team in the Ministry of Housing in Colombia, representative of Colombia in the BIM Network of Latam Governments and chair of the Normalization Committee of Edifications and Civil Engineering Works.
Valentina, as a representative of the Ministry, leads the technical approaches towards the National BIM Strategy through the transformation of the public policies towards the productivity improvement, based on a wide experience in the implementation of methodologies and technologies through the construction processes in different types of organizations.
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Director of Monitoring and Control of Public Investment Projects, Ministry of Public Works of Argentina Republic
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Lead Specialist at the Competitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division
Inter-American Development Bank
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Executive Director, Building Information Management at the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
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Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct, Yale School of Architecture
Phil Bernstein is an architect, technologist and educator who is Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture, where he received his B.A (honors) and M.Arch and has taught since 1988. He was formerly a Vice President at Autodesk where he was responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for BIM technology as well as cultivating and sustaining the firm’s relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Prior to Autodesk Phil was a principal at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions. He is the author Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (2018) and co-editor of Building (In) The Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture (2010 with Peggy Deamer), and speaks and writes extensively on technology, practice and project delivery. His book on the implications of artificial intelligence for architectural practice will be published by RIBA in 2022.
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