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Episode 8 - Andy Boutle

Andy talks about the state of BIM in the UK, standards, UK BIM Alliance, and much more.
Andy Boutle works as Head of BIM for the Construction division at Kier Group, which is made up of a number of regional and specialist business units in the UK, and he is also the engagement Co-Lead for the UK BIM Alliance.
Kier is a leading UK construction and infrastructure services company servicing a wide range of sectors and clients. Kier’s core businesses are Construction, Highways, Utilities & Rail, and Infrastructure. Kier is the UK’s largest regional builder.
The UK BIM Alliance aims to ensure BIM becomes business as usual whilst at the same time, transforming and future-proofing the way the industry work.
"In the simplest way, it's a process for defining, creating, exchanging structured data and documents in a repeatable process." Andy Boutle
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Episode 7 - Robbin Hellström

Get ready to rock your BIM world while listening to this episode! Robbin sees things differently than many in our industry. Many of you will feel challenged your beliefs about BIM and the AEC industry, so get your seatbelt on and enjoy this!
Robbin Hellström is an architect and BIM-philosopher at 3D Interactive STHLM AB in Sweden.
"BIM is something we always had. We had it for thousands of years. The only thing that is new within BIM as a concept is because of the digital technique, the tools are different.That’s the concept I want to change, to make the business understand that we don’t need to talk about BIM as something new but as something that’s we have always done, so we can start talking about what the tools actually are. If you really want BIM to work for you, stop talking BIM, understand BIM is already what you do." Robbin Hellström
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Episode 6 - Eirik Aasbakk

Eirik talks about how he’s helping the project owners to adopt BIM on their projects within the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen). Lately, more of the Project Owners have started to require the information to be presented in dashboards, which is easy to do when you have BIM 3d-models. In a recent project, to engage the neighbors and the politicians they used ARCGIS online instead of the traditional way with documents and drawings that nobody reads. We also talk about using drones, Geo Radar, and Machine Learning to map the bedrock for roads. VDC, Modell Maturity Index (MMI), and many other interesting things.
Eirik is a BIM-manager in the Division of Bigger Projects in Statens Vegvesen (Norwegian Public Road Administration). He is helping the various Project Owners to adopt and use BIM as much as possible.
"For me, BIM is many things but the most important I think is structured information, and 3d geometry is one part of the information which lies in BIM objects. If you get this established, just have a lot of information in the geometry then we have a lot of possibilities. " Eirik Aasbakk
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Episode 5 - Øyvind Kjøllesdal

Øyvind talks about the importance of working together as active parts involved in the BIM process, scanning for quality assurance, RPAs, robots, drones, why he thinks Norway is a frontrunner in the digital transformation in the Construction Industry, BIM-kiosks, building without drawings, IPD (integrated project delivery) contracts and many other interesting things.
Øyvind is a Business Developer - Innovation and Digital Construction at AF Gruppen which is a leading contracting and industrial group.
"Virtual Design in Construction is about combining people and technology to fulfill the main goals of the projects and to constantly monitor how well your team is doing. BIM is one of the main pillars and an enabler of achieving a process of the Virtual Design in Construction where BIM is the central hub containing the project information and also an enabler for communication and mutual understanding of the product which the team is creating and working with."  Øyvind Kjøllesdal
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Episode 4 - Yassir Fayyaz

Yassir talks about the importance of knowing how to work with other people, how and why he started his own company, the state of BIM in Norway, what we, as different actors with different roles, can do to communicate better, BIM-coordinating (managing), Synchro, Solibri, BIMcollab, dalux, streamBIM, paperless and drawingless projects.
Yassir is the CEO and co-founder of C3BIM, a BIM consulting company, based in Oslo, Norway.
"I always like to think that BIM is not a product but more like a way to work." Yassir Fayyaz
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BIMcollab ***Disclaimer*** I am the official partner of BIMcollab in Norway, and I did not speak with Yassir about this, before recording this episode.

Episode 3 - Gavin Crump

Gavin talks about scripting with Dynamo, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Construction, challenges in BIM adoption, and much more.
Having worked in many architectural firms over the past 10 years as a BIM Manager, Gavin opened his BIM Consulting firm, BIM Guru at the start of 2020. Launching off the back of his YouTube efforts at the Aussie BIM Guru channel, his focus has shifted towards educating all levels of AEC professionals about software-based workflows, computational design, and how they can navigate the industry from a BIM perspective.
"Usually I just turn the word around and I just say: modelling to generate information so they can get it out and build it. I like to look at it as a process of the model being a mechanism, information being what we get out of the mechanism and building being the process that the data supports." Gavin Crump
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Episode 2 - Thomas Aas

Thomas talks about the first project where Bane NOR is not requiring drawings from the general contractor, what are the new exciting happenings in our industry. He says we got from "why we should do BIM" to "how we should do BIM", and much more.
Thomas is an Engineer currently working as a BIM Manager on the Drammen - Kobervikkdalen project for Bane NOR through a company called Centerpoint.
"For me, BIM it's a platform to combine every information and everything you know about objects in the digital world. A better way to control and see what you've been planning and see the whole picture. Be able to combine all the disciplines together and checking for collisions before finding them out in the field." Thomas Aas
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Episode 1 - Lucian Ungureanu

Lucian is stretching the fact that we lack integrations or solutions for asset owners, how he uses a more open way of teaching the students at the university, why he doesn't like the .ifc file format and why actually we don't need a specific open format, standardization, lacking research and development, coding for professionals in the AEC industry, thoughts about parametric design.
Lucian is a Civil Engineer with a Ph.D. in Construction Management, a research assistant at the University of Berlin where he's teaching and doing research. He is also a Technical Lead at Contecth where they do training and develop software for companies within the AEC industry.
"For me, BIM is a set of means to structure your efforts when dealing with the information on a project." Lucian Ungureanu
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