Program

Opening

09:00 – 09:40

Registration

09:40 – 09:55

Opening speeches

• Jānis Kreics (Member of the Board, Association for Construction Industry Digitalisation);
• Dainis Matulis (Cooperation Project Manager,The Latvian national standardization body Latvian Standart);
• Maksims Kazakovs (Director of study program "BIM specialist", Riga Building College).

PANEL DISCUSSION

Road to BIM implementation

10:00 – 11:00

Moderator: Igors Adlersbergs (Member of the board, " Association for Construction Industry Digitalisation")

Participants: 

• Ivar Krasinski (Design Director at EDGE, United Arab Emirates);
• Tony Fitzpatrick (Co-founder at The BIM Crowd, Finland);
• David Shepherd (Project BIM Leader at House of Commons, United Kingdom);
• Mario Luigi Caputi (Managing Director “In2it” Corporate Real Estate Management, Italy).

In this panel discussion participants from public and private organisations will be asked questions about the implementation of BIM from scratch. How to start using BIM in the company, how to develop it, what difficulties are expected along the way?

Break (11:00 – 11:10)

PANEL DISCUSSION

Future of BIM

11:10 – 12:10

Moderator: Gunita Ķiesnere (Member of the association, " Association for Construction Industry Digitalisation")

Participants: 

• Wajdi Mereb (Digital Transformation & BIM Manager, United Arab Emirates);
• Noha Saleeb (Associate Professor at Middlesex University, United Kingdom);
• Billel Dridi (BIM manager at Fam Holding Group, United Arab Emirates);
• Gusts Sproģis (Deputy Director of the Construction Policy Department "Ministry of Economics", Latvia);
• Krišjānis Silickis (BIM Project Manager at SJSC “State Real Estate”, Latvia).

In this panel discussion participants from public sector will share information about the future of BIM - development, opportunities and challenges. How do we see the future of BIM, what developments can we expect?

Break (12:10 – 12:20)

PANEL DISCUSSION

Level of BIM development

12:20 – 13:20

Moderator: Jānis Berķis (Head of the Board, " Association for Construction Industry Digitalisation")

Participants: 

• Peter Nørkjær Gade (Lektor / Research Coordinator at UCN, Denmark);
  
• Mario Luigi Caputi (Managing Director “In2it” Corporate Real Estate Management, Italy);
• Mostafa Elashmawy (Senior BIM & GIS Manager at WSP Middle East, Saudi Arabia);
  
• Rania Abdel Fattah (BIM Director at Cosmos-Eng, Egypt);
• Nicholas Owuor (Director at Sui Generis Design Studio, Kenya);
• Tony Fitzpatrick (Co-founder at The BIM Crowd, Finland).

In this panel discussion participants from public and private organisations will be asked questions about the level of BIM development in different countries. A comparison of how BIM is used and applied in different countries, what can we learn?

Lunch break (13:20 – 14:00)

BIM F*UPS

Presentations about BIM F*UPS or fails

14:00 – 14:25

Mostafa Elashmawy (Senior BIM & GIS Manager at WSP Middle East, Saudi Arabia)

"Procurement Without Information Requirements. Your Fastest Way to Fail."

Some clients ask their delivery teams to deliver in BIM without further information. As an Appointing Party, you should specify your Information Requirements clearly before hiring the appointed parties. In this session, I'll show you some snippets of how to fail while using BIM.

14:25 – 14:50

Dr. Marzia Bolpagni (Associate Director at Mace, United Kingdom)

"LOD vs Level of Information need: how to avoid legal claims"

The lack of culture, technology, processes and policies are likely to lead to failure. One key aspect of BIM is the creation of the right time for the right purpose; this is often not possible when using the “LOD” approach in contracts. In this presentation it will be presented how lack of clear information requirements can lead to failure and how to overcome it using the Level of Information Need framework included in EN 17412-1.

14:50 – 15:15

Noha Saleeb (Associate Professor at Middlesex University, United Kingdom)

"BIM and Integrated Digital Delivery Risk Devastations"

This presentation will discuss possible risk parameters that can cause failure on BIM projects, their impact and mitigation solutions that can be used to resolve them, taking into consideration the whole life-cycle and an Interdisciplinary approach.

15:15 – 15:40

Katarzyna Klepacz (BIM & Design Development Manager at Ruukki Construction, Poland), Haroldas Bacius (Cladding Project Manager at Ruukki Products AS, Lithuania)

"The significance of BIM in the manufacturing industry - rough patch ahead"

BIM changes the way we work, manage and coordinate investment processes. One of the areas on which BIM has a great influence is manufacturing industry, especially when it comes to sharing models and information about products. Additionally, using BIM methodology gives a possibility to create an efficient process linking the design and the component production, supporting internal actions. Presentation will unveil the daily challenges and struggles ahead manufacturers following that path.

Break (15:40 – 16:00)

BIM AWARDS

16:00 – 16:10

Innovation project Nr.1

16:10 – 16:20

Innovation project Nr.2

16:20 – 16:30

Innovation project Nr.3

16:30 – 16:40

Voting for the best innovation project of the year

16:40 – 17:00

Awarding ceremony