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Silvia Taurer

LivingRoomCraftZ
Region Manager
Silvia founded LRCZ in 2008 and is a founding member of the RTC Europe Foundation since 2012. She first got exposed to the concept of BIM or integrated planning as a contractor for the emerging Revit platform in early 2007 and since then wholeheartedly embraces the vision on creating a better future for the generations ahead by extensively utilising unbiased collaborative thinking. She is a free spirit and lateral thinker; combining industry knowledge, managerial assets and clear vision. By doing so, Silvia has contributed to conferences such as RTC Europe and BILT Europe as well as influenced other industry related events, shaping the individuality of those. Silvia inspires everyone with her energy and drive – propelling the collaborative goal of integrated planning.
Silvia Taurer
LivingRoomCraftZ
Region Manager
Rui Gavina

VN2R
Speaker Manager
Rui Gavina is the Digital Practice Manager at VN2R, a structural engineering firm. He leads the BIM business development and is responsible for the design and introduction of new and optimized approaches on the use of digital technologies. He is also the Structural BIM advisor of DiRoots, a BIM consultancy and digital technology company. Rui has previously collaborated in one of the first Portuguese structural engineering firms to use Revit and embrace BIM collaborative processes. He was also the BIM implementation leader in a renown structural engineering firm before becoming a partner in VN2R.
Rui is an active community member in the digital built environment. He is the speaker manager of BILT Europe, one of the most well-recognized and respected events related to BIM and digital technologies. Rui is one of the founders of the group ISEPBIM, a non-profitable BIM community related to the Polytechnic Institute of Engineering of Porto (ISEP-IPP), focused on the promotion and dissemination of BIM in Portugal and creating a closer engagement between the academic environment and the industry.
Rui received a Bachelor and Master degree in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Engineering of Porto (ISEP-IPP) and took a post graduate degree on Computer Aided Structural Design.
Rui Gavina
VN2R
Speaker Manager
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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Conor Shaw
DBEI
Committee Member