Virtual Summit Spring 2021

buildingSMART International’s third Virtual Summit was held in the Spring of 2021 and was delivered in conjunction with the Swiss Chapter. This summit took on a new opening structure in order to accommodate buildingSMART Switzerland’s Digital Construction Event ‘_xCH21’. The first three days saw shared keynotes, a day of roundtable discussions, bSI specific keynotes and masterclasses hosted in German. This was followed by six days of ‘Room Sessions’ and a Closing Plenary on the tenth and final day.

A total of 131 presentations were delivered by 259 speakers, with 76 hours of content now available on-demand. A record number of 1045 attended from 41 countries – testament to our growing community. As always, thank you once again to our sponsors for helping to make such an event possible.

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Opening Plenary

Session	Video Title and Link
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21 - full session
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Birgitta Schock - Welcome and Introduction
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Patrick MacLeamy - Chairman's Welcome
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Richard Petrie - CEO Update
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Richard Kelly - Standards and Solutions Update
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Léon van Berlo - Technical Update
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Aidan Mercer - Marketing Update
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Birgitta Schock - Update from Switzerland
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Paul Curschellas - Update from Switzerland
An update from buildingSMART International and _xCH21	Adrian Wildenauer - Welcome from SBB
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Sustainability Through Best Practice - full session
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Pekka Virkamäki, Anna-Riitta Kallinen - Finnish State BIM Strategy
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Kay Killmann - Green Building and BIM
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Dr Chris Luebkeman - ETH Zürich
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Jon Könz - Building Sector's Contribution to Sustainability
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Maike Stroetmann - Modular prefabrication in the building industry
Sustainability Through Best Practice	Michael Dobler - Schindler
buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use	buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use - full session
buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use	Léon van Berlo - Introduction to Standards and Solutions
buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use	Pasi Paasiala - IFC in its Natural Habitat
buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use	Thomas Tschickardt - IFC - 4 PPP A 10 A24
buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use	Thomas Flannery - Utilising the cloud
buildingSMART Standards and Solutions in Use	Ronald Bergs and Anouk van Otterlo - Publishing and sharing information delivery requirements using bSDD
The Rise of Digitization	The Rise of Digitization - full session
The Rise of Digitization	Rita Sanfilippo - A story of innovation, when know-how meets vision
The Rise of Digitization	Dalith Steiger - Building on AI
The Rise of Digitization	Matthias Wasem - Circular Economy and Digital Twin an enormous opportunity
The Rise of Digitization	Frédéric Gal - Digital Twin and Automation
The Rise of Digitization	Stefan Reiser - The Rise of Swiss Digital Standards

bSI Keynotes

Session	Video Title and Link
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture - full session
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Richard Kelly - Strategic working groups
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Bart Brink - Overcoming sustainability challenges with digital twins
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Tim Kersley - An infrastructure organisation perspective
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Joe Inniss - Digital is here
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Julian Schwarzenbach - Joining the (asset management) dots
Strategic Thinking: Looking at the Bigger Picture	Tarmo Savolainen - FTIA Strategic View for BIM and Asset Management
Software Led Innovation	Software Led Innovation - full session
Software Led Innovation	Leif Granholm - Trimble - The Growing Role of Software in Construction
Software Led Innovation	Burcin Kaplanoglu - Oracle
Software Led Innovation	Michelangelo Cianciulli - ACCA - BIM authoring software export IFC files, and then what…
Software Led Innovation	Veljko Janjic - Bexel - Innovations and Challenges in openBIM Project Management
Global Community Engagement	Global Community Engagement - full session
Global Community Engagement	Ada Fung - Hong Kong Chapter’s Update March 2021
Global Community Engagement	Ali Ismail - UAE chapter update and Dubai BIM eSubmission platform
Global Community Engagement	Lorenzo Nissim - Application of the blockchain to the BIM methodology; sharing the Italian study group result
Global Community Engagement	Muge Sumerol, Ahmet Citipitioglu - Chapter presentation and activities Turkey
Global Community Engagement	Ole Berard - Starting a chapter (Denmark) during a global pandemic
Global Community Engagement	Mirbek Bekboliev - Germany chapter update March 2021
Tech Session: How To's…	Tech Session: How To's… - full session
Tech Session: How To's…	Mathijs Natrop - Tutorial; How BCF can help you raise your productivity
Tech Session: How To's…	Jan Fennema - IFC in practice with Tekla Structures
Tech Session: How To's…	Martijn Groenwoud, Juun Steen, Joris Wiegman - Data enrichment through Solibri and Dynamo Python
Tech Session: How To's…	David Delgado Vendrell - Tips and tricks to get the most out of Archicad delivering IFC
Tech Session: How To's…	Stijn van Schaijk - IFC with SketchUp, Simple and effective BIM usage for the masses

bSI Roundtables

Session	Video Title and Link
N/A	Digital Supply Chain and Circular Economy
N/A	Digital Twins and Automation
N/A	Collaboration with openBIM
N/A	Industry, Education and Standards

Sponsors

Session	Video Title and Link
N/A	ACCA: Is it possible to always keep the IFC files produced by BIM authoring software up to date
N/A	Autodesk: What to consider when tackling interoperability
N/A	BEXEL Manager the one platform for all BIM dimensions
N/A	Bosch RefinemySite: Agile construction – how to bring construction teams closer to BIM
N/A	ODA: Collaboration Shouldn’t End with a Specification
N/A	Oracle: Collaboration and Common Data Environment

Other

Session	Video Link and Download
N/A	bSDD Hackathon: outcomes and use case implementations
N/A	Closing Plenary - full session
N/A	Aidan Mercer Closing Plenary
N/A	Richard Kelly Closing Plenary
N/A	Richard Petrie Closing Plenary

Airport Room

Session	Video Title and Link
AR1 - Airport Room Roadmap Overview	Adam Rendek, Miika Kostamo, Arisca Droog, Maya Tryfona - Airport Room Roadmap Overview
Airport Room Summary Spring 2021	Airport Room Summary Spring 2021

Building Room

Session	Video Title and Link
BR1 - Fire Safety Engineering & Occupant Movement Project	Jimmy Abualdenien, Pete Thompson, Jonathan Matthei - Fire Safety Engineering & Occupant Movement Project
BR2 - BIM2SIM, Model-based Building Performance Simulation and Switzerland Chapter Status	Manuel Frey, Simon Dilhas - BIM2SIM, Model-based Building Performance Simulation and Switzerland Chapter Status
BR3 - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience	AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience - full session
BR3 - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience	Kay Sargent - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience
BR3 - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience	David Ivey - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience
BR3 - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience	Afonso Solak - AI and the post-pandemic Workplace Experience
BR4 - Facilities Management Initiatives in bSI	Facilities Management Initiatives in bSI - full session
BR4 - Facilities Management Initiatives in bSI	Jeffrey Ouellette - bSI FM FMH project framework announcement
BR4 - Facilities Management Initiatives in bSI	Fred Kloet - FM and openBIM Project update/a>
BR4 - Facilities Management Initiatives in bSI	Ines Azpeitia Gonzalez - FM Handover - Equipment Maintenance MVD Opportunities
BR4 - Facilities Management Initiatives in bSI	Bill East - FM Handover – Equipment Maintenance MVD requirements
BR5 - Building Energy Modelling (BEM) and BIM and Building Airtightness	Jeffrey Ouellette - Building Energy Modelling (BEM)
BR6 - Prefabrication of Pipes	Tim Hoffeller, Sven Herbert, Stefan Wüst - Prefabrication of Pipes
Building Room Summary Spring 2021	Building Room Summary Spring 2021

Construction Room

Session	Video Title and Link
CR1 - Construction Room Roadmap; CDE updated	Construction Room Roadmap; CDE updated - full session
CR1 - Construction Room Roadmap; CDE updated	Ken Endo - Construction Room Roadmap
CR1 - Construction Room Roadmap; CDE updated	Ken Endo - CDE updated
CR2 - Advanced Work Packaging; Cost and Time Driven Parametric Design	CR2 - full session
CR2 - Advanced Work Packaging; Cost and Time Driven Parametric Design	Veljko Janjic - Advanced Work Packaging
CR2 - Advanced Work Packaging; Cost and Time Driven Parametric Design	Mileta Pejovic - Cost and Time Driven Parametric Design
CR3 - Overview Construction Room Switzerland activities 2019 - 2021	Alessandro Walpen, Markus Trethaway, Thomas Wirth, Markus Brun, Ramon Schweizer - Overview Construction Room Switzerland activities 2019 - 2021
CR4 - usIFCserver	Michelangelo Cianciulli - usIFCserver
CR5 - BIM for Concrete: actual challenges and future wishes	Giovanni Volpatti - BIM for Concrete: actual challenges and future wishes
CR6 - Kajima's DX; IFC and Digital Twin data models mapping	CR6 - full session
CR6 - Kajima's DX; IFC and Digital Twin data models mapping	Ai Yamamoto - Kajima's DX
CR6 - Kajima's DX; IFC and Digital Twin data models mapping	Yoshinobu Adachi - IFC and Digital Twin data models mapping
Construction Room Summary Spring 2021	Construction Room Summary Spring 2021
Infrastructure Room 'Coffee Break' Session	Infrastructure Room 'Coffee Break' Session

Infrastructure Room

Session	Video Title and Link
Infrastructure Room 'Coffee Break' Session	Infrastructure Room 'Coffee Break' Session
IR1 - Opening session	Infrastructure Room Opening session - full session
IR1 - Opening session	Tiina Perttula - IR Opening
IR1 - Opening session	Philip Jackson - Roadmap Results Summary Virtual Summit
IR1 - Opening session	Charles-Edouard Tolmer - BIM standards for infrastructure: Survey
IR1 - Opening session	Mickael Beaufils - New perspectives for IFC thanks to OGC standards
IR1 - Opening session	Christophe Castaing - Infra program delivery board
IR2 - InfraRoom Deployment Project Update	Jim Plume, Karin Anderson, Štefan Jaud, Christophe Blanchet and the IFC 4.3 Infra Deployment Team - InfraRoom Deployment Project Update
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	IFC Tunnel Project update - full session
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	Michel Rives - IFC Tunnel Project update
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	Jurij Karlovšek - Information Modelling in Tunnelling
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	Jonas Weil - IFC Tunnel Sub-group Geology and Geotechnics
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	Jan-Christian Thoren - IFC Tunnel Sub-group Excavation, support and lining
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	Heiko Atzbacher - IFC Tunnel Sub-group Systems
IR3 - IFC Tunnel Project update	André Borrman, Lars Wikström, Sergej Muhič - IFC Tunnel Sub-group IFC-Experts
IR4 - IFC Ports & Waterways Project update	Alex Bradley - IFC Ports & Waterways Project update
IR5 - IFC Bridge Implementation	IFC Bridge implementation update - full session
IR5 - IFC Bridge Implementation	Jim Plume, Karin Anderson - IFC 4.3 Infra Deployment Update
IR5 - IFC Bridge Implementation	Aaron Costin - US IFC Bridge Implementation (AASHTO)
IR5 - IFC Bridge Implementation	Edouard Berton - French IFC Bridge Implementation (MINnD)
IR5 - IFC Bridge Implementation	Paolo Borin, Xenia Fiorentini - Italian IFC Bridge Implementation (bSItaly)
IR5 - IFC Bridge Implementation	Frédéric Grand - bSDD and IFC Bridge
Infrastructure Room Summary Spring 2021	Infrastructure Room Summary Spring 2021

Product Room

Session	Video Title and Link
PR1 - Model Based Quantity Take Out and Submission in Building	Manuel Frey, Daniel Hecker - Model Based Quantity Take Out and Submission in Building
PR2 - Developing a BIM planning workflow for parameterized products using the example of doors	Thomas Rohner - Developing a BIM planning workflow for parameterized products using the example of doors
PR3 - Requirements on connecting classifications	Radboud Baayen, Arisca Droog - Requirements on connecting classifications
PR4 - Reduction of the environmental impact from buildings using BIM applications	Reduction of the environmental impact from buildings using BIM applications - full session
PR4 - Reduction of the environmental impact from buildings using BIM applications	Hansueli Schmid - Reduction of the environmental impact from buildings using BIM applications
PR4 - Reduction of the environmental impact from buildings using BIM applications	Michael Brunner - Reduction of the environmental impact from buildings using BIM applications
PR5 - Updates from Product Room Steering Committee and GS1	Updates from Product Room Steering Committee and GS1 - full session
PR5 - Updates from Product Room Steering Committee and GS1	Magdalena Pyszkowski - Progress of Digital Supply Chain in built Environment
PR5 - Updates from Product Room Steering Committee and GS1	Christer Green - Unique identification of products throughout the entire lifecycle of a built asset by using GS1 identification standards
Product Room Summary Spring 2021	Product Room Summary Spring 2021

Railway Room

Session	Video Title and Link
RWR1 - IFC Rail Project Phase 2 Status Overview	IFC Rail PMO & Stakeholders - IFC Rail Project Phase 2 Status Overview
RWR2 - The IFC Rail Implementers Forum; Testing and implementing the IFC 4.3 standard	Evandro Alfieri, Chi Zhang and vendors - The IFC Rail Implementers Forum; Testing and implementing the IFC 4.3 standard
Railway Room Summary Spring 2021	Railway Room Summary Spring 2021

Regulatory Room

Session	Video Title and Link
RR1 - Introductory Session	Nicholas Nisbet, Franco Coin - Introductory Session
RR2 - Regulatory Information Requirements Project	Tomi Henttinen - Regulatory Information Requirements Project
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Regulatory “Show and Tell” - full session
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Francesca Noardo - EUNET4DP and Netherlands
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Christopher-Robin Raitviir - BIM-based building permit process developments in Estonia
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Anna-Riitta Kallinen, Pekka Virkamäki - BIM-based Building Permit and COBIM2020 part 14 Projects, Ministry of Environment of Finland
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Giada Malacarne - Towards a BIM-based building permit process: an experience in Italy
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Nicholas Nisbet - AEC3 Require1 and D-COM
RR3 - “Show and Tell”	Jia-Rui Lin - Recent Development and Practice of ARC in China
Regulatory Room Summary Spring 2021	Regulatory Room Summary Spring 2021

Technical Room

Session	Video Tile and Link
TR1 - Current Initiatives	Current Initiatives - full session
TR1 - Current Initiatives	Wim van der Poel - openCDE Documents API
TR1 - Current Initiatives	Greg Schleusner - BCF deeper dive
TR1 - Current Initiatives	Nirvik Saha - IFCJSON
TR1 - Current Initiatives	Léon van Berlo - bSDD Overview
TR1 - Current Initiatives	Adam Rendek - BIM and Geospatial
TR2 - New Horizons	New Horizons - full session
TR2 - New Horizons	Ghang Lee - IDM Toolkit
TR2 - New Horizons	Antonio González Viegas - IFC.js
TR2 - New Horizons	Anouk van Otterlo - Publishing and sharing information delivery requirements using bSDD – a more in-depth technical overview
TR2 - New Horizons	Robert Lipman, Jean Brangé - STEP Developments
TR3 - Future Directions	Open discussion - Technical Future Directions
Technical Room Summary Spring 2021	Technical Room Summary Spring 2021

Virtual Summit Spring 2021

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