by Dr. Melanie Robinson, Regional Lead for Newcastle upon Tyne and Senior Project Manager at BIM Academy

For Digital Construction Week 2022, I had the pleasure of representing Women in BIM (WIB) in my new capacity as WIB regional lead for Newcastle upon Tyne. It was wonderful to be back attending events in person again – a sentiment shared by several people I had met over the two jam-packed days.

by Dr. Regina Ruschel, Senior Researcher and Collaborating Professor at the Graduate Program in Architecture, Technology and the City at the University of Campinas

My experience in BIM is essentially academic, both in teaching and research. I came to BIM naturally because of my focus on digital transformation. I was a pioneer and led two major digital transformation processes in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction in the Brazilian academy. In the 1980s, I locally implemented the transition from analog to digital,  of drawing board design to computer-aided design, in the civil engineering course at the University of Campinas. Since the mid-2000s, I have worked tirelessly to transition from computer-aided design to information modeling, across the entire building and infrastructure development cycle in education. This effort was first locally at my university and recently nationwide.

by Aydan Aghabayli, Regional Lead for Azerbaijan  

The recent integration of Information Technologies with different disciplines has seen Machine Learning (ML) used in several areas and disciplines, including the AEC industry.  The increasing use of data in a digital format, as well as the use of BIM models, creates possibilities to apply ML and learn from the available data.

by Chris Smeaton, Associate Principal – Digital Leader, Insite and Regional Lead for Abu Dhabi, UAE

After being absent from the UAE for the past four years implementing digital practice across southeast Asia and client advisory, I have returned at an exciting time for the construction industry and asset owners as they look to digitisation and data to drive high-value business decisions.

by Nadinne Zem, Regional Lead for Brazil

The idea of ​​what would be the concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) emerged a long time ago, not like the concept of BIM we know today. In 1974, through the minds of Professor Charles Eastman and scholars at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the concept of “Building Description System” or BDS emerged.