buildingSMART USA Webinar Series 2025
Join us on the second Wednesday of each month at 12 noon Eastern for informational webinars explaining buildingSMART, openBIM, IFC, etc. Our plan is to provide speakers who can share insights into the benefits of using open standards for your building and infrastructure projects. We will also be highlighting opportunities for you to participate in buildingSMART thought leadership whitepapers, working groups, domain expert review panels and international projects.
Upcoming
September 10, 2025 | 12pm Eastern = 9am Pacific
openBIM® Business Value
Speaker: Tony Rinella (Strategic Building Innovation)
Background: Three buildingSMART chapters (Brazil, Portugal, and USA) plus an independent consultancy (Strategic Building Innovation) launched this effort to support bSI’s Strategic Project to quantify openBIM® Business Value. They developed a framework of prioritized metrics to capture openBIM Business Value. Work is now underway to populate that framework with measured results.
Webinar: This interactive webinar will extend current efforts to quantify and document the business value that openBIM® brings to real world projects. During this webinar we will ￭ present the framework, ￭ share results gathered to date, and ￭ hold a workshop to engage webinar participants in sharing their openBIM® experience.
On-Demand
Title | Webinar Date | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
openBIM for FHWA Digital Delivery National Deployment Overview | 2025-07-08 | James Gray (Federal Highway Administration - FHWA) & Allen Melley (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) |
Level of Information Need and Level of Development | 2025-06-11 | Jim Bedrick (BIMForum) & Tony Rinella (buildingSMART USA Education Committee) |
openBIM in Action: By Nemetschek Group | 2025-05-14 | Joel Martineau (dRofus), Miles Smith (Graphisoft), Robert Manna (dRofus) |
openBIM in FTIA – What, How and Why | 2025-04-09 | Tarmo Savolainen (Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency FTIA) |
Update to buildingSMART USA Certification and Education | 2025-02-12 | Eva Yu (Strategic Building Innovation) & Paul Woodard (buildingSMART USA Education Committee) |
AI and Data Governance: Building Trust in Machine Learning | 2024-12-11 | Scott Yates (Woolpert) |
From Virtual to Reality: How Digital Twins Make Data Actionable | 2024-10-09 | Chris Harmon (WSP) & Jerry Schwinghammer |
How IFC is paving the way for model-based workflows | 2024-09/11 | Oystein Ulvestad (Arup) |
openBIM-based Estimation | 2024-07-16 | Aleksandar Ilić (BEXEL Manager), Brent Pilgrim (The Beck Group) |
Seeing is Believing (Part 2) | 2024-06-12 | Scott Lecher (HNTB) |
Exploring the synergy between LOD and ISO 19650 Level of Information Need standards for openBIM | 2024-05-08 | Clive Jordan (Plannerly) |
Seeing is Believing: Demystifying openBIM for Highway and Bridge Practitioners (Part 2) | 2024-04-10 | Connor Christian (Kiewit) & Michael Warren (AECOM) |
Mastering openBIM: Maximizing your Efficiency with bSDD and IDS | 2024-02-14 | Clive Jordan (Plannerly) |
IFC Show and Tell – What you can do with IFC and how to work with the data | 2023-11-08 | Dion Moult (Lendlease) |
Design for Manufacturing | 2023-10-26 | Clayton Lyons (Prefix DfMA) |