The BIM Student

On this episode, we will be talking to Brent Mauti. Brent is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Turner Fleischer Architects. He is a licensed architect in Ontario and Alberta who has focused on BIM throughout his career.  Brent's passion is to focus on lifecycle BIM interoperability and cross-platform synergy.  Brent is also a professor at George Brown College and Algonquin College. We will be talking to Brent regarding "Role of Leadership in early BIM adoption".

Ian is an associate at Entuitive, a future oriented and technology driven Structural engineering company that adopted #BIM in its inception years. He has had significant involvement in a variety of commercial, residential, institutional, and educational buildings in the Canadian and Middle Eastern markets using BIM technologies, focusing especially on geometrically complex structures. His depth of BIM experience and natural leadership ability allows him to regularly drive new ideas and is continually looked to as a unique problem solver. He has also been involved in CanBIM from its founding years and has been actively advocating and facilitating the process of Digital Transformation in the #AEC industry. We will be talking to Ian about 'BIM adoption in a structural engineering company.'

Roddy is a Registered Architect in the province of Alberta and also a non-practicing Lawyer. After a glorious career at Stantec, in 2017 Roddy founded Holo-Blok, a company that is dedicated to fix the broken practices in Architecture and is leveraging Technology massively in doing so. His expertise in BIM and Integrated Project Delivery have allowed him to develop novel practices for project delivery. He aims to provide a product to owners that contain endless opportunities for post-occupancy goals. We will be talking to Roddy regarding "Architecture is broken - How is BIM helping fix it?".

Check out the next episode of ‘The BIM student’.  Our guest is Yigit Karanfil. Yigit is a Design Technology Manager at HOK, where he actively works with clients and project teams to determine requirements and #buildtechnology workflows to deliver projects successfully. Also as an active member of CanBIM community, he has been working with Design and Engineering Think Tank since 2015. Yigit has experience with various healthcare, retail, mixed-use, transportation and industrial projects. We will be talking to Yigit regarding “Multidisciplinary BIM: What it takes to manage BIM across disciplines”

Dennis has been involved with BIM and the corresponding software through research, analysis and discussion since 2003. His professional experience lends itself well to increasing efficiency in an office and improving on existing practices. Possessing experience in multiple disciplines (Structural, MEP and Architectural), and having taught many companies in BIM and Visual programming for Revit, Dennis has led the firm’s move from a strictly AutoCAD shop to a BIM shop. Additionally, he has a strong background with contracts, proposals, and Zoning submissions (SPA, MV, etc.) and has worked heavily in Multi-Residential and Commercial as well as script generation/training/Project Coordination for many different types of projects.

Arash is the perfect combination of academic awareness and industry exposure and holds a Ph.D. in construction engineering and management technologies and co-founded the Building Innovation Research Centre at the University of Toronto. He is an entrepreneur and innovator who co-founded AECO Innovation Lab in pursuit of engaging the immense talent in our academia to solve the problems of the #aecindustry. Through various initiatives like #OneOntario, he is to lead the digital transformation of #AEC industries and governments through collaborative R&D projects, innovative products, and expert consulting. He was recently named as one of the Top 40 Under 40 in Canadian Construction for his innovative work. Also, he is continuously contributing to the industry serving as Research Chair of the Toronto BIM Community (tBIMc)) and is on the board of directors of buildingSMART Canada.

Brandon Searle has background in Civil Engineering and Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. He has also worked with Opus International Consultants that later became WSP as asset management consultant. While with WSP, he worked toward an M.Eng. focusing on infrastructure management and completed a broad collection of courses in economics, project management, business, finance, and engineering. With all this amazing education and experience behind him, he was given opportunity to lead UNB’s OCRC as Innovation Director. In this role he focuses on operations and business development by bringing industry partners and problems to researchers in academia together to help create innovative solutions for the construction sector. Additionally, his’s role involves creating a national network of researchers to advance new technologies and practices in the Canadian construction industry.

Leslie Wright is someone who has a firsthand experience and has actively participated in digital transformation in AEC.  He has witnessed the change from paper to data rich models He has been an Architectural practitioner working on variety of project for several years. Past 5 years he has worked with City of Windsor’s building department as a plan’s examiner and now Digital Transformation Specialist. In this role he is responsible for overseeing the building department’s Technology adoption process.  He is also helping building department establish policies that can facilitate the city to work with Development Service's to improve permitting process. Our today’s discussion will revolve around BIM adoption in our Municipalities and what can be done to expedite the process.

Alena’s career path has not been straightforward. Her focus in optimization motivated her to pursue Construction Management training shortly after she received Master’s degree in Architecture. Alena entered Canadian construction industry as a pursuits coordinator but due to her interest in technology and optimization, she shifted to BIM path and had worked in various Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) roles for over 7 years most of which she spent on sites working on healthcare, transportation, wastewater and pharmaceutical projects. These days Alena’s job is to make sure that everyone at Ellisdon who needs VDC tools gets them and knows how to make the best use of them. As a past Board Director at The Canadian Association of Women in Construction (CAWIC) and a co-chair of Construction management Think Tank at Canada BIM Council (CanBIM), Alena is an advocate of women in technology and construction.

At the end of season 1 we have a three series recap episodes. In these I will talk about my takeaways from these guests.  Full Episodes of each guest  Brent Mauti : https://youtu.be/2LR2LFOm5Z8 Ian Trudeau : https://youtu.be/dIhjnzR83Tc Roddy Handa : https://youtu.be/_aKytLYi3sQ