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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.

Silvia Taurer

LivingRoomCraftZ
Region Chairman, Europe

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.

Rui Gavina (2)

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.

Conor Shaw (2)

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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Julia Kaltenegger

Julia is working in the field of AEC since her early years. She started a technical college for interior design and encouraged her fundamental knowledge in the field of construction and detailing. After her bachelor’s degree in architecture at the Graz University of Technology [AUT], she continued working in the field of software development and BIM execution planning in the Netherlands. Currently she is graduating at the Eindhoven University of Technology [NL], specialised in urban developments and construction management engineering. To foster her educational knowledge, she is working for LivingRommCraftZ on digital building and information modelling to optimize data and process management. Striving for a more sustainable built environment, the focus point in her future career will be efficient integration of environmental and economical feasible design and decision support tools in an emerging digital technology AEC industry.

Daniel Plazza

Daniel developed a strong passion for the digitalised construction industry from an early age studying at the Technical College for surveying in Italy. After his bachelor’s degree in Architecture at the Graz University of Technology, he continued his academic career with a Joint Study Exchange Year at the College of Architecture & Urban Planning of the Tongji University (Shanghai, China). Since then Daniel has been attending his master studies in architecture at the Graz University of Technology where he is also a lecturer in the subject of software-based building modelling. As part of this study program he has worked on a research project on the standardized implementation of BIM in public administration at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Italy.  He now continues this activity in Graz, where he collaborates with the Working Group Sustainable Construction in researching new methods for a BIM-based Building Permit Process.

David Torrance

New College Lanarkshire

I am a student at the New College Lanarkshire in Motherwell, Scotland, with the focus on architectural technology. My passion in my studies is towards the latest technology and software developments to enhance and optimize information driven design. The future aim in my career is to foster BIM in traditional architecture workflows to overcome collaboration and interoperability issues.

Being part of the BILT Academy team gives me the ability to network and share my knowledge among fellow students all over Europe to learn from each other and to improve the built environment together.

I’m a very enthusiastic and ambitious person with a ‘glass half full’ outlook on life! You can always find me with a smile on my face and probably a cup of coffee in hand.

Carl Storms (2)

BIM Track
Technical Solutions Lead

“Carl knows BIM. He knows modeling, coordination, and improving processes; he’s been doing it for over 20 years. And above all, he knows how to teach and inspire others to adopt BIM/VDC in their own workflows. He loves talking shop about BIM and ConTech; seriously, get him started and he won’t stop! Or, if you’re not in the mood to talk BIM/VDC, Carl is always on the lookout for any excuse to chat about his newest passion: learning to code. Carl doesn’t bite, so reach out to him directly on Twitter @theBIMsider, on his Blog thebimsider.com, or listen to his smooth voice on pretty much any AECO podcast you can find.”

Silvia Taurer

LivingRoomCraftZ
Region Chairman, Europe

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.