BIM BOP 2020

PARTICIPANTS

Lecturers, BIM BOPPers, and moderators are listed alphabetically. This list might change. Updates will be posted on the pdf conference schedule.

Andrew Cameron, Project Manager – Hensel Phelps

BIM BOP: Automated Progress Pictures | SPOT Enabled Workflows

Learn how Hensel Phelps on the 1.2B dollar SFO Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Project has partnered with Boston Dynamics and HoloBuilder to yield an automated workflow to harvest daily 360 degree progress pictures.

William Carney, Design Technology Leader, DLR Group

LECTURE: Data is easier to understand when it’s relatable

It’s one thing to have a lot of data but it takes more than having data to leverage it. Establishing a relation between data sources adds meaning to your data. Knowing the data at your fingertips and understanding how it all relates is the first step to leveraging data for insights that you actually benefit from.

Emily Bisaga Dunne, Architecture Technical Evangelist, Autodesk

BIM BOP: Generative Design is as old as dirt

Generative design methods represent both a new way of thinking about building production methods, and a regurgitation of production processes that go back to the pyramids. Defining goals, creating possible designs, and evaluating the performance of alternatives are fundamental aspects of old problem solving techniques from which we can learn.

Mark Enos, Senior Applications Specialist for Buildings and Facilities, Bentley Systems Inc.

BIM BOP: Pedestrian Simulation & Social Distancing Digital Workflows

With social distancing and crowd management at the forefront of global concerns, OpenBuildings Station Designer and LEGION Simulator software can help station owners, planning and design firms, and facilities operators to develop models, simulate crowd movement, analyze foot traffic, and optimize space utilization of infrastructure assets such as rail and metro stations, airports, retail and commercial complexes, hospitals, and stadiums. For more info: Designing Social Distancing in Public Spaces.

Blaine Grantham, Principal & Co-Founder of TITAN AEC

MODERATOR: company description

TITAN AEC is an agile design and technology consulting firm dedicated to the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner/operator (developer) market segments. TITAN AEC provides business, design and technology consulting services to help AECO firms successfully plan, design, build and operate land, buildings, and infrastructure. TITAN AEC can help revitalize your project delivery process by utilizing the design workflows by industry technology companies such as Autodesk, Microsoft, Faro, Trimble, Unity, and StructionSite.

Tadeh Hakopian, HMC

LECTURE: Building your Tech Stack - How Anyone can Code in AEC

As anyone who has been interested in coding knows that the path to learning software development can be tricky. There are many resources out there but not a clear start or learning path. However designers are more interested than ever in creating and controlling their own tools for real world projects. Coding provides new capabilities and flexibility in addition to your typical productivity software stack so it is worth learning. This session will show you what is possible with open source (free!) tools like Python, Git, Dynamo, Javascript and more. Learn how to get started using them, what kind of developer tools you need and where to go for help. We will also see how they work with software like Revit and how to start your own coding projects meant for the built environment or anything else you want to do.

Frank Jacobus, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

BIM BOP: How BIM and 3D Printing will Change the Designer’s Role Forever

This talk is about the development of an algorithm that allows individual users to create personalized objects within a given set of constraints. The specific project used as a discussion prompt is called the Type Chair, a 3D printed chair made of PLA plastic. During our talk we will quickly show the formal and programmatic basis of the algorithm, discuss the underlying issues that emerged from the process, and reveal what we believe this means for the future of design.

Ben M John, WORKPOINT Engineering

LECTURE: Parametrics for the People

Whilst the power of parametric design is now well known within the AEC industry, it is too often viewed as reserved for complex and repetitive geometries, leaving its potential for smaller offices and more conventional project types under-utilized. We’ll cover how WORKPOINT engineering implements parametric design for more traditional construction typologies, challenging the attendee to rethink its potential applications.

Clive Jordan, Co-founder Plannerly

MODERATOR: company description

Plannerly is the BIM management platform helping to save the world from Evil BIM. Find out more about BIM Management here: https://www.plannerly.com/bim-management-videos - remember, don’t plan late, plan early - with Plannerly!

Laura Karnath, AIA, NCARB, Senior Enclosure Technical Designer, Walter P Moore

MODERATOR: company description

Founded in 1931, Walter P Moore has grown into an international company of engineers, innovators, and creative people who solve some of the world’s most complex building engineering challenges. More than 700 employees across 20 U.S. offices and 5 international locations provide structural engineering, building enclosure, and diagnostics services. We also offer civil, traffic, transportation, and parking consulting.

Chuck Keeley, Vice President, AEC Project Services, Kelar Pacific LLC

MODERATOR (backup): company description

Kelar Pacific supports the architecture, engineering, contractor and owner communities with technology and project services for the built world. While providing software solutions Autodesk, Bluebeam and more, we also partner with AEC firms for project services including 3D laser scanning, BIM modeling and coordination, total station layout, and more. www.kelarpacific.com

Jason King - IBI GROUP - Global Lead of Computational Design

BIM BOP: Parametric Design for Pandemic Resiliency

This presentation will provide an overview of IBI’s data-driven process in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The algorithmic models assist decision makers by correlating and visualizing large amounts of data for efficient analysis to inform responses for the healthcare system, schools, essential workers and facility and office managers.

Mel Lewis, M.Arch +3 Candidate, University of Southern California

BIM BOP: We Shape Game Engines and Thereafter Game Engines Will Shape Us

Twinmotion's one click synchronization with Revit, Sketchup, Archicad, and Rhino to produce an unprecedented real time quality experience. Unreal Engine's Multi-User Editor and Collab Viewer Template to work collaboratively. Game engine's potential to reinvent architectural design that recreates the world in the image of a global village removed permanently from individualism, separatism, fixed point of view, and fragmentation of our Industrial Age heritage.

Lilian Magallanes, Program Manager, Community Development, Bluebeam Inc.

MODERATOR: company description

We’re more than just a software company. We’re an industry partner, working alongside design and construction professionals to develop smart, simple solutions that make life easier for project teams everywhere.

Blaire McPherson and Loren Perry, Co-Founders, Studio Como

LECTURE: What Have We Gotten Ourselves Into? Life After Taking The BIM Leap

Making the transition to BIM as a small start up firm is certainly exciting - but not without its challenges. How do you approach such a big shift in workflow without the typical support roles of a big firm?

Nathan Miller, CEO of Proving Ground

BIM BOP: Computers are Hard - Reflecting on the things that should be easy

Nate will discuss persistent industry challenges with reliable data, interoperability, and digital literacy present in building design and construction. He will discuss his experiences regarding the adoption and implementation of new digital workflows in the AEC industry and evaluate examples where transformative capabilities have seen both success and failure.

Jeff Montague, Vice President at Radius Track

BIM BOP: Turning the Corner – custom sub-frame fabrication in a parametric world

Curved buildings, knife edges, bullnoses, and gutter assemblies! Leveraging parametric software, and inhouse built custom CNC machines, wonky one-off prefabricated assemblies are the norm. Through project case studies, this talk will outline the sub-frame from development through the installation of projects where surfaces meet in challenging ways.

William A. Moses, WMDA / JBA / Gensler

BIM BOP: BIM Infused Healthcare Design

We will investigate ways in which ArchiCAD can help manage production, investigate solutions, creating techniques, and predict conflicts. We will explore new ways of efficiency, develop streamline and standardize workflow within ArchiCAD while working effectively with consultants, trades, and other project stakeholders.

Rob Otani, PE, CTO, Thornton Tomasetti

LECTURE: What You’ve Heard about Digital Twins is Probably Wrong

“Digital Twin” is a new buzzword in the AECO industry and being talked about as if somehow just saying it will make your business improve and all of the struggles with BIM go away. Other industries have been leveraging Digital Twins for many years but there’s no surprise that the AECO industry’s use cases and current disparities of technologies and platforms leaves us with more questions than solutions. This presentation and discussion will be about how we can leverage our current technologies and create new technologies to standardize the concept and data schemas for a Digital Twin so that the future users and use cases of Digital Twins actually have something that is useful.

Jeffrey W. Ouellette, Chief Advocate, jo consulting

MODERATOR: company description

Jeffrey is an independent consultant helping organizations of all types in the built asset industry (including buildings and infrastructure) make necessary changes to their business processes, technology toolboxes, and organizational culture in embracing a better paradigm of digital ways of working for the entire lifecycle of projects. His advocacy for needed change is rooted in buildingSMART International principles of being technology-agnostic, workflow- and data-centric, and based on open, national and international standards.

Ernesto Pacheco, Director of Visualization at CannonDesign

BIM BOP: Leveraging immersive technologies for collaborative design

Learn how CannonDesign leverages immersive technologies to enhance its design process and break geographical boundaries through true multi-user, interactive VR/AR sessions. I will expand on how this is changing the way designers and clients collaborate and explore spaces. workflows, as well as to experienced users who want know more about collaborative tools for VR/AR.

Ed Paul, Associate | BIM Manager, Arup

LECTURE: Hard RESET of Revit Standards - Good for us, Good for Clients!

Why and How Arup created a completely new global Revit standard and content to benefit both the company and the clients it serves. This talk will cover why Arup decided to reset the local Revit standards to a new and improved single global standard, which includes parameters, templates, and content. The Why gets into internal collaboration and the then the ongoing benefits to the company and the clients. The How covers the difficulty of reaching and such a standard that covers 5 global regions with 24 country variations multiplied by the major disciplines we support.

Terri Peters, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

LECTURE: Computing an environment: biophilic design as a case study for BIM and performance simulation

This talk is based on the speaker’s ongoing research into designing and predicting healthy spaces, and findings from her co-authored book “Computing the Environment: Digital Design tools for Simulation and Visualization of Sustainable Architecture” (2018). Connecting peer-reviewed studies and examples from design practice, her talk examines sustainable building performance as it relates to biophilic design, in the context of BIM and performance simulation. These insights also apply to sustainable architecture more broadly.

Karen Pierce, Senior BIM Specialist at UNIFI Labs

MODERATOR: company description

UNIFI Labs is the global leader in cloud-based BIM content/ data management and project health insights. Our essential data platform delivers a Better BIM experience by helping users navigate the DARK BIM.

Ethel G. Rubio, Assoc. AIA, ENV SP

MODERATOR: company description

Ethel G. Rubio, Assoc. AIA is a consulting firm specializing in construction/ project management, and strategic outreach and engagement.

Leo Salcé, Principal, AVANT LEAP

MODERATOR: company description

Avant Leap is a global technology consulting organization providing world-class services and innovative solutions to the AECO industry from design through operations.

Marcello Sgambelluri, John Martin Associates

LECTURE: Solve Your Interoperability between Rhino and Revit: Getting Started with Rhino.Inside.Revit

There is a new technology called Rhino.Inside.Revit, and it allows Revit to access all of Rhino’s powerful functionally including Grasshopper for Revit. Now it is easier than ever to get those concept designs from Rhino into Revit production models. This session will show you how to get started and look at this new technology from a practical point of view. More information can be found about Rhino Inside Revit in Marcello Sgambelluri’s forthcoming book here https://www.simplycomplex.org/dynamo-reference-manual.

Marianne Sims, Marketing Manager, GRAPHISOFT

MODERATOR (backup): company description

GRAPHISOFT® ignited the BIM revolution in 1984 with ARCHICAD®, the industry-first BIM software for architecture. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the industry with innovative solutions such as its revolutionary BIMcloud®, the world’s first real-time BIM collaboration environment; and BIMx®, the world’s leading mobile app for lightweight access to BIM for non-professionals. GRAPHISOFT is part of the Nemetschek Group.

Zach Soflin, AIA, Founder & CEO, Layer

MODERATOR: company description

Layer is a multi-platform app and Revit add-in that makes it easy for AECO professionals to connect rich building data to BIM.

Belinda Valenti, Associate at STUDIOS Architecture

BIM BOP: Napkin Sketches in Revit

The concept design phase of an architecture project is always a race to explore and synthesize a number of concepts as fast as possible. Translating a loose hand drawn design sketch into a presentable form sets the course for a project; the speed and efficiency of this process is paramount. This is a discussion of the benefits of a streamlined process using Revit.

Benjamin Welle, PhD, PE, Director of Energy Lab, Perkins+Will

BIM BOP: BIM2SIM: How AI & machine learning will solve the interoperability problem ONCE and FOR ALL

I am intimately familiar with BIM2SIM interoperability mess. I’ve written standards for them and I’ve built design and analysis platforms from the ground up forced to address them for one of the largest architecture firms in the world. I will summarize a methodology I’ve been working on to use AI and machine learning to eliminate file-based exchange and traditional API plugins so that designers/engineers will no longer have to spend time “prepping” or “cleaning” models to pass geometry and other data to building performance analysis applications. It will just work. Finally.