committee

Wesley Benn

Digital Built Environment Institute
Executive Chairman

Alice Leung

Brick & Mortar Ventures
Investment Associate

Alice started her career in the AEC industry with DPR Construction in the San Francisco Bay Area building UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. She led the Bay Area Skunkworks group and implemented various construction technologies on project sites. In April 2016, Alice relocated to Singapore to help start up the Southeast Asia HQ for DPR Construction as the resident BIM/VDC and construction technology expert and worked on data center projects. She was part of various workgroups led by the Singapore Building and Construction Authority (BCA), was a part-time lecturer for the BCA Academy BIM Management Certification Course, taught BIM courses for RICS and spoke at various conferences in the region. She joined the Digital Built Environment Institute(DBEI) organizing committee whilst in Asia and is now part of the DBEI North America Committee since her relocation back to San Francisco. After realizing the slow pace of digitization in the construction industry, Alice joined the Brick & Mortar Ventures team to work with startups that want to disrupt the way we design, construct and maintain the built world. Alice holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University where she was on the Formula SAE racecar team and worked in a materials science lab researching lead-free piezoelectrics.

Joseph Darling

Perkins Eastman
BILT Asia Speaker Manager

Joe Darling is a Designer based in the Shanghai office of Perkins Eastman. Since 2014, Joe’s design focus and experience have been in Senior Living, Primary and Secondary Education, Healthcare, and Large-Scale Mixed-Use projects. In concert with his design experience, for the past seven years, Joe has pushed the boundaries of Rhino and Revit, creating tools for each that enable streamlined workflows and collaboration with stakeholders that are typically removed from the digital design process. Most recently, Joe began developing cross-platform applications that further his passion of linking distant stakeholders directly to the design team and process, all with the convenience of the mobile, desktop or web platform of the user’s choice. With his growing portfolio of design and technical expertise, Joe also serves as a BIM lead for the Shanghai Studio, mentoring his colleagues on best practices for engaging with BIM, while achieving optimal levels of design for the given phase.