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
November 12, 2025 | 12pm Eastern = 9am Pacific
ODA Industry Partnership Program for openBIM
Speakers: Neil Peterson and Igor Egorychev (ODA)
Open Design Alliance (ODA) is launching a new Industry Partnership Program that connects free community applications with professional enterprise support. The program allows industry organizations to offer structured support services for ODA’s OpenBIM tools, including Open IFC Viewer, creating a sustainable model for wider use of open standards.
During this session, we will show how the program benefits both partners and end users: partners provide support and services around established tools, while users gain access to reliable assistance without cost for the software itself.
We will demonstrate the Open IFC Viewer, including new mobile capabilities, and discuss practical challenges in infrastructure and Department of Transportation (DOT) workflows. The session will focus on how formal support partnerships can accelerate OpenBIM adoption while keeping tools accessible to the industry.
On-Demand
Title | Webinar Date | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
openBIM® Business Value | 2025-09-10 | Tony Rinella (Strategic Building Innovation) |
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) |