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
April 9, 2025 | 12pm Eastern = 9am Pacific
openBIM in FTIA – What, How and Why
Speakers: Tarmo Savolainen (Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency FTIA)
Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency FTIA is the state organization and owner of road (78000 km), railway (6000 km) and waterway (16000 km) network in Finland. FTIA has developed BIM based working processes since the Finnish national InfraBIM program 2010-14. The presentation is about the goas of FTIA digital transformation, nowadays situation and challenges and short history of open BIM. The focus of the presentation is open BIM and information management in design, construction and how to get information to flow to asset information systems.
On-Demand
Title | Webinar Date | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
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) |
The Truth Behind Digital Twins | 2023-10-19 | Speakers: Arisca Droog (Schiphol Airport), Maya Tryfona (Schiphol Airport), Brendan Dillon, C.M. (Denver International Airport), Jason Williams (YVR), and Kelly Watt (DFW and Co-Founder Digital Twin Consulting)
Moderated by Chuck Pietra (C&S Companies), Randy Murphy (Endpoint Intelligence, LLC), and Julie Jernigan (RS&H) |
Driving Construction Innovation and Digital Transformation through technology partnerships | 2023-10-11 | Mileta Pejovic (Bexel Consulting) & Stephen Hollstein (Clayco) |
Digital Delivery: Building the Digital Cathedral | 2023-08-09 | Mark Counts (Caltrans) |
Combining openBIM with GIS to deliver Digital Twins | 2023-07-12 | Marc Goldman (Esri) & Michelangelo Cianciulli (ACCA Software), Will Sharp & Mike Bousiliman (Roads & Bridges Committee) |