Dr Ilka May, Associate Director at Arup, is a senior consultant with more than fifteen years experiences working with spatial technology and data. Her work includes a number of prestigious projects and clients, such as London Olympics, Crossrail, Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, Deutsche Bahn and the German Highways Authority DEGES. In April 2016 she was appointed head of a 5D implementation program at DB Engineering & Consulting GmbH.

In 2015 she took on the role as interim CEO of the newly formed planen- bauen 4.0 initiative. Through planen-bauen 4.0, Ilka May has been appointed as a consultant to the EU BIM Group in Brussels in January 2016, a project co-funded by the European Commission and led by the UK. Dr Ilka May sits on a number of committees and expert panels. Since June 2012 May has been a member of the ICE BIM activity group. She was a member of the BSI’s expert panel developing PAS 1192-4 – COBie in 2014. In Germany she was invited to join a BIM Task Force advising the German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure’s reform committee “Major Projects” and she sits on standardisation committees at DIN and CEN.

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The architect Miklós Szövényi-Lux is the Head of Strategic Relations at GRAPHISOFT SE. He has graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics with an MSc in Architecture. He has been a member of the Association of Hungarian Architects since 1987. After graduating he became a designer at IPARTERV, a firm that designs commercial and industrial buildings in Hungary. In 1991 he started working at GRAPHISOFT in a team specialising in software development. He held the position of VP of Product Management for three years (2009-2011) after which he was VP of Business Development for another three years. He became the Head of Strategic Relations in 2015 and holds the position to this day.

Education:

• 2005 – 2011 Management of the growth of the GRAPHISOFT product portfolio from a single product localized to 26 languages to a multiple product ecosystem portfolio

• 2008 – Release of GRAPHISOFT MEP Modeler

• 2009 – Release of GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner

• 2011 – Release of BIMx, the first BIM product in the world for mobile devices as iPad/iPhone/Android

• 2012 – 2013 Establishing GRAPHISOFT Hong Kong, GRAPHISOFT Beijing

• 2016 – Representing Hungary in the CEN/TC 442 (Comité Européen de Normalisation) which is the Technical Committee for developing de BIM Standards for the EU

• BIM standards in the world

Marta Kittel is an expert in the field of public procurement. She has gathered experience in the Office of Appeals of the Public Procurement Office and as a purchaser in the public finance sector as well as an IT company. In the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Office she leads the public procurement law team.

Marta Kittel used to be the employee of a subject specializing in comprehensive consultation to purchasers and executors, in public procurement grant proceedings and in the procurement execution stage. She is also a party proxy in appeal proceedings in front of the National Board of Appeal. She has 9 years of experience in the field of exerting public procurement law.

She has co-authored many specialized publications including a guide to drafting procurement subject descriptions for computer hardware delivery or information systems for beneficiaries of the 7th Priority Axis of the Innovative Economy Operational Programme. Other works: documents in the proceedings of public procurement grants; public procurement in judicial decisions, public-private partnership in municipal economy versus public procurement.

She is a lecturer at postgraduate courses on the subject of Polish and European public procurement law.

Economist, Institute of Law and Institute of Informatics graduate at the Private Higher School of Business, Administration and Information Technology in Warsaw. Specialization: public procurement law.

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• Product life cycle within the meaning of public procurement law determined on BIM

Ákos Rechtorisz has been the Product Manager of Interoperability at GRAPHISOFT since 2008. Before that, he gained 10 years’ experience as a specialist in structural design applications as well as an instructor at the Department of Structural Mechanics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

This is what Ákos had to say about his presentation:

“This presentation explores the current status and the features of the BIM-based interoperability between different disciplines/design applications. It summarizes the requirements, the currently available standards and possibilities of the model-based communication. A live demo demonstrates the model creation and BIM data sharing between GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD and other applications by using open source file formats including IFC and BCF”.

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Maciej Dejer is an entrepreneur, manager and advisor with 10 years of practice in delivering projects in BIM technology, inter-industry coordination and project administration in New Zealand, Canada, USA and Poland.

He is Chairman of the Association for Information Technology in Construction Industry (BIMKlaster), responsible for promoting innovation-led processes. He is also a consultant and has successfully carried out a number of BIM implementation processes, aimed at increasing the effectiveness, competitiveness and quality of services offered by construction companies.

He is a trailblazer of using new technologies in construction and other industries. Co-author of the BIMblog.pl

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• 'I' - extreme challenge. BEP, workflow, coordination, clash detection, cloud, model checking, calculations, cost, time - nursery in Krosno project

Paweł Wierzowiecki, MBA, is an experienced construction engineer and a recognised designer. He holds significant practical experience in managing large project teams delivering both general construction and infrastructure solutions. He is a valued consultant to many construction companies and businesses from a range of industrial sectors, offering services in the property and real estate market. For many years, he has been taking an active part in educating emerging engineering teams, both as a lecturer at technical universities and as a consultant for innovative academic projects. In his professional life, he has designed over 2.5 million square metres of commercial and public service space, and delivered several infrastructure projects.

Paweł Wierzowiecki, leveraging his experience in handling national and international contracts, is a firm proponent of the IPD philosophy (Integrated Project Delivery), which relies on integration of human, technological, commodity resources and business practices during the investment process. Thanks to IPD, investment stakeholders realise measurable gains out of the skills, experience and knowledge of all members of this process. The aim of IPD is optimizing efficiency in all phases of the investment: designing, building and exploiting. The basic tool of the IPD concept is BIM technology – Building Information Modelling.

He graduated from the Construction, Architecture and Environmental Engineering Department of Poznan University of Technology and obtained an MBA degree (GFKM / RSM Erasmus University program).

In his private life, he is a traveller enchanted with Asia, and an ocean-loving yachtsman.

Pawed Łaguna (IARP architect, SARP member) gained experience by designing complicated office buildings, medical centers and residential structures for commercial clients. As part of his cooperation with the main executor of the Złota 44 apartment building he was responsible for the coordination of a multi-industrial execution project of a 200-metre high-rise in the center of Warsaw. His three years working in the international JACOBS company at the Design Manager position have resulted in nearly 50 completed structures for corporate entities in Central and Eastern Europe. Paweł Łaguna is a fan of introducing modern IT tools in order to efficiently manage the full investment cycle.

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• The strategy of managing information on buildings and Infrastructure

Antonio Meireles has a degree in Civil Engineering (2005), a MBA in Corporate Management (2007) and currently he is finishing his PhD Thesis in Construction Management. He is focused on the improvement of the construction industry by the development of knowledge, as well as efficient and innovation-driven processes, through ndBIM Virtual Building, his international consultancy and services company. For the last 10 years, he has been empowering stakeholders of the Construction Industry to use BIM, IPD and Lean Construction methods so as to deliver integrated construction services more efficiently and more productively.

Antonio Meireles advocates the use of collaborative tools because he believes that these methods exponentially increase productivity and efficiency, then saving owners money and earning higher profits for others. He is leading the BIM Management Institute, an initiative where most of the Portuguese construction companies, designers, owners and universities participate with the goal of disseminate the advantages of BIM and boost its use. He is also the coordinator of subGroup of the BIM TaskGroup in Portugal regarding the standardization and legislation of BIM in Portugal. He has been invited to be a keynote speaker at several international conferences all around the globe and his work has been a case study for several publications and whitepapers. Invited teacher in different courses all around Portugal and Brazil.

Before that he was a Structure and MEP consultant and he lead the challenge of bringing Innovation and BIM to the agenda of each worker of Mota-Engil Engenharia, an international construction company, leader in Portugal. The work developed in Mota-Engil and that started 10 years ago was pioneering on the integration of BIM in a builder being consultant in the developing of the first BIM software for construction management.

He has developed several studies and experiences on the best approach to implement an innovation system in a traditional and geographically dispersed company. InnovCenter, the company’s Innovation Platform, is one of his most successful results and was recognized has one of ten recipients awarded the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) 2011 Intranet Design Award.

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• BIM 5D, a change in the actual paradigm! Open BIM and the benefits for the industry

David Petri is both an architect and a BIM manager working in a well-known hungarian project office, KÖZTI Architects & Engineers. This is what David had to say about his career so far, as well as the subject of his presentation:

“As a student of architecture I have been involved in a couple of design projects at the largest and most prestigious design firm in Hungary, called KÖZTI. As a professional architect I started working in 2006 for the studio led by György Skardelli. In 2010 due to the financial crisis reaching Hungary I chose to move to a totally different sector. I wanted to try myself out in the IT sector, the software development area, getting as much knowledge as possible. I knew that I have a real passion for architecture so my aim was to implement the experience later on in architectural design. In 2013 I continued my architectural career at the same studio as before and shortly became a BIM Manager. My role is to work as a BIM manager on several design projects, for example on the largest sport complex in Hungary, the National Stadium named after Ferenc PUSKÁS. In my presentation I would like to highlight the importance of BIM and OPEN BIM through the example of our 140.000m2 stadium project. I am going to show how we struggled and solved key areas like model and information sharing by different file formats with fellow engineers, and how we gained benefits from digital Clash detection and Quantity take off. I would like to share our experiences on our software behavior with programs such as ARCHICAD by GRAPHISOFT, or BIMsight by TEKLA and VicoOffice by Trimble”.

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• First Hungarian OPEN BIM project