committee

Marcus Fich

Grundfos Holding
Chief Global Solution Manager – Digital Solutions for Commercial Building Services

Marcus has been passionate about innovating new solutions to solve the world’s water and climate challenges for more than a decade. He is a firm advocate for the role that the digitalization of the built environment plays in securing the future of our planet. As individuals in the Built Environment, we have a significant impact on every being on the planet. We are designing, building and operating the environment in which we live and the infrastructure that connects them; but we are also accountable for more than 40% of the world’s ongoing energy consumption. As a global industry, we have a tremendous responsibility to restore the wellbeing of our planet. Productivity and efficiency gains throughout the value chain have not exactly been stellar throughout the past few decades. Sure, improvements have been made, and a digitization of workflows within design, construction and operation has optimized within each silo, but when it comes to collaboration across disciplines and applying a holistic view of the full lifecycle of our environment, we still have a long way to go.

In his ‘day-job’ he is a Chief Global Solution Manager within Grundfos’ Commercial Building Services division responsible for a portfolio of IoT-enabled solutions improving the energy efficiency of buildings. On the side, he is the BILT’s European Chairman – and also serves on DBEI’s executive committee. He lives in Denmark with his partner and their two sons.

Richard Kuppusamy

Lendlease
Executive Committee, Region Chairman, Asia

Richard Kuppusamy is a chartered British Architect with more than 18 years of experience in the AEC industry with projects across Europe to Asia.. He graduated from the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, with a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design in 2001.

After practicing in the UK for over 10 years; Richard returned to Singapore to join acclaimed architectural practice, WOHA Architects. In 2017 he joined Lendlease, as the Head of Digital Integration where he leads the implementation of innovation in digital technology and processes through BIM/VDC from design, construction through to facility management.

As an early adopter of BIM with over 10 years’ experience in BIM implementation and strategic planning Richard brings unique insights to create additional value in successful project delivery. Understanding commercial interests, processes, regulatory requirements and technical mechanics to implement BIM at both organization and project level from design to construction.

In his commitment to open collaboration to advance the industries adoption of BIM/VDC; Richard has contributed to the development of the Building Construction Authority, Singapore BIM Guide and lectures at the BCA Academy on BIM Management and Legal & Contractual matters.

Desirée Mackey

GEI Consultants
BILT Chairman

Desirée has been in the AEC industry since the 1990s. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Davis and a master’s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Desiree has worked in construction and as a structural engineer, and now is the Design Technology Practice Leader for GEI Consultants. Desirée is a regular speaker at many conferences, she co-founded the Rocky Mountain Building Information Society, is the Chair of the Structural Engineers Association of Colorado’s BIM Committee, served as an AUGI board member, Treasurer, and Vice President, serves on the AU Advisory Council, and is a member of the BILT North America Committee

Clay Hickling

GHD
Committee Member

Clay Hickling has been working with GHD for over a decade as an architectural and civil designer/documenter. GHD, being a multidiscipline Architecture and Engineering firm adopted Revit quite sometime ago. Clay is part of an internal development team coordinating the implementation of all the Revit flavours thru the various parts of the GHD business, his focus being Architecture. This entails training, development and technical support. Recently Clay was involved in the startup of a BIM user group called BrisBIM. With the motto of working smarter and not harder Clay enjoys sharing knowledge with others and enjoys the meeting people in the RTC community. Outside of this environment Clay spends as much time as he can on the golf course and riding the bike.

Conor Shaw

DBEI
Committee Member

I’m a Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher at University College Dublin’s Energy Institute, and a member of the CBIM European Training Network who are at the forefront of scientific output relating to digitalisation within the built environment.

Critical to the procurement ambitions of the European Union towards ESG and climate targets, my current research explores Life Cycle Costing in Asset Management, and seeks to scale-up value-based decision-making methods to support a wide range of stakeholders. The MSCA fellowship has allowed me to meld practical insight with the latest scientific theory, resulting in impactful, globally relevant outcomes with implications to policy.

I have a background in Construction Management (MSc. Helsinki Metropolia/HTW Berlin) and Architectural Technology (BSc TU Dublin), over a decade of diverse construction industry experience across several continents, and am particularly passionate about natural building and historical building conservation. I first spoke at and attended RTC in Delft 2013, and over the past decade have enjoyed watching and contributing to the metamorphosis into BILT!

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Lyn Chua

Tech Narwhals Pte. Ltd
BILT Asia Sponsorships Manager

Lyn is a mechanical engineer by training and currently focuses on creating more efficient industry workflows for urban infrastructure and Smart Cities.
Her consulting work includes training up the building & infrastructure industry on the latest design trends, smart city initiatives, the Internet of Things in relation to urban infrastructure, sustainability issues and city-wide engineering simulation and visualization.

Wesley Benn

DBEI
Executive Chairman

A post-Sydney, post-New York, post-post Digital Nomad, Wesley is the founder and Global Chairman of the Digital Built Environment Institute. As a long-term user and advocate of BIM (starting with ArchiCAD in 1996), Wesley has been speaking and teaching in the field since starting to play with a pre-release version of Revit.

Wesley has worked directly with Autodesk on Revit development and implementation, built content for manufacturers and end-users, and has implemented multiple BIM tools into well over 300 practices throughout South-East Asia and beyond.

He has spoken around the world on technology, facilities management and process change; he founded (and chaired for 5 years) the Revit User Group, Sydney; and is now focused on broad issues of sustainability and innovation for the AECO industry globally.