openBIM® Workflows: Learn from the Experts 2025
August 19, 2025
Esri Headquarters @Southern California
This one-day hybrid event brought together leaders and practitioners from across the infrastructure and building sectors to explore the value and application of openBIM. Hosted by Esri and buildingSMART USA at the Esri Headquarters in Southern California, this event provided a deep dive into the current state and future direction of openBIM adoption in the U.S., highlighting the crucial role of standards, pilot projects, software validation, education, and industry collaboration. It illustrated how structured, interoperable data flows—from design through construction to asset management—can transform infrastructure delivery and lifecycle management.
Watch the recording below.
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0:00:00 Opening (Marc Goldman - Esri & Will Sharp - HDR)
0:07:28 buildingSMART Overview (Calvin Kam - SBI)
openBIM WORKFLOWS
0:21:28 openBIM Standards and Services Overview (Calvin Kam - SBI)
0:30:15 REQUIRE: Define requirements for IFC model (Clive Jordan - Plannerly)
0:44:49 REQUIRE: Level of development in openBIM (Luke Faulkner - ASIC)
0:55:38 PRODUCE: Creating IFC datasets (Grant Schmitz - HDR & Joe Brenner - MBI)
1:23:16 CHECK: Validation Service, IDS (Rick Brice - Washington DOT & Scott Lecher - HNTB)
1:50:05 Sponsor Presentation (Autodesk)
1:54:34 REVIEW / DELIVER: Sharing data through open standards (Devin Porr & Lynn Hiel -Caltrans)
2:16:58 REVIEW / DELIVER: How openBIM is supported with NBIMS (Roger Grant & Jay Kline - NIBS)
2:33:28 REVIEW / DELIVER: Share data - OGC/IFC, GeoBIM (Marc Goldman - Esri)
openBIM ADVANCEMENT
2:49:44 Learning & Resources (Tony Rinella -SBI)
2:57:30 ISO 19650 and openBIM (John Messner - Penn State)
3:14:02 Developing National Standards (Will Sharp - HDR)
openBIM INDUSTRY UPDATES
3:25:55 Roads & Bridges Trisha Stefanski - Minnesota DOT & Will Sharp -HDR)
3:33:25 Airports (Cindy Baldwin - VDCO Tech)
3:44:55 Buildings (Luke Faulkner ASIC)
3:55:55 Rail (Juan Serrano - Arup & Moses Scott - Woolpert)
3:59:35 Technical (Jeffrey Ouellette - jo consulting & Min Song - SBI)
openBIM IN ACTION
4:10:35 IFC MALD Pilots (ADCMS) (Grant Schmitz - HDR & Hanjin Hu - MBI)
4:47:09 Establishing US Data Dictionary (Aaron Costin - UFL)
4:59:49 Sponsor Presentation (Jeffrey Avina - LeapThought)
5:07:55 openBIM Business Value (Calvin Kam - SBI & Tony Rinella - SBI)
NEXT STEPS
5:32:25 openBIM Technology Stack Updates (Min Song - SBI)
5:41:15 Opportunities / Calls to Action (Calvin Kam - SBI & Will Sharp - HDR)
Past openBIM® USA Events
Date | Event | Location |
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2025-08-19 | openBIM Workflows: Learn from the Experts 2025 | Esri HQ | Redlands, California |
2025-04-10 | 3rd Annual BIM Smart Summit | Hollywood, Florida |
2025-01-06 | Follow the Sun 2025 | Virtual Event |
2024-11-14 | openBIM Transportation Regional Summit 2024: Rail Day | Oracle Lab | Deerfield, Illinois |
2024-11-13 | openBIM Transportation Regional Summit 2024: Roads & Bridges Day | Oracle Lab | Deerfield, Illinois |
2024-08-27 | openBIM Workflows: Learn from the Experts | Trimble HQ | Westminster, Colorado |
2024-04-11 | 2nd Annual BIM Smart Summit | Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
2024-03-25 | Follow the Sun | Virtual Event |
2023-08-23 | OpenBIM Transportation Regional Summit | Oracle Lab | Deerfield, Illinois |
2023-05-11 | openBIM USA Seeing is Believing Workshop | Stanford, California |
2023-04-18 | BIM Smart Summit | Sunrise, Florida |
2022-06-14 | openBIM USA Open Standards Conference 2022 | Anaheim, California |