BuildingSMART International Forum will be held in Brisbane, Australia on Wednesday, 8.30 – 18.00, 14 November 2007.

BuildingSMART International Forum will featuring expert speakers, case studies, innovative software users and developers, the summit is designed for industry and government leaders who want to learn more about the business case for Building Information Modelling (BIM) and who want faster, better, less expensive results with reduced risk.

The international forum will be launched on Tuesday evening 13 November at the Gallery of Modern Art overlooking the Brisbane River and city skyline.

This will be a major networking event for all design, construction and FM professionals in Australia, Europe, Asia and North and South America.

Government Session:
Enabling National Productivity in the Construction Sector;
Tuesday 13.30 – 17.30, 13 November 2007

Industry Session:
Working Smarter in the Construction Sector;
Wednesday, 8.30 – 17.30, 14 November 2007

Cocktail Function:
addressed by the Hon Robert Schwarten MP, Queensland Minister for Public Works, Housing and Information and Communication Technology will be held 18.00 – 20.00 Tuesday 13 November 2007 at the Gallery of Modern Art.

GOVERNMENT SESSION – 80 George Street, Brisbane
Tuesday 13 November 2007 (1.30pm to 5.30pm):

• Reconfiguring Business and Government Processes in Norway: Ole Kristian Kvarsvik, Statsbygg, The Directorate of Public Construction and Property, Norway
• The Drive for Open Standards in the US Federal Government: Steve Hagan/Charles Matta/Calvin Kam, General Services, Administration, USA
• Leveraging the benefits of BIM: Pekka Lukkarinen, Ministry of Environment, Housing & Building Department, Finland
• Construction ICT Policy Development: Tom Froese, University of British Columbia, Canada & Robert Amor, University of Auckland, NZ
• Senate Properties and BIM: Arto Kiviniemi, VTT, Finland
• Challenges facing the Australian Construction Sector: Jane Montgomery-Hribar, Executive Director, Australian Procurement Construction Council.

NETWORKING COCKTAIL FUNCTION – Gallery of Modern Art, Southbank, Brisbane, Tuesday 13 November 2007 (6.00pm to 8.00pm) Welcome address: Hon Robert Schwarten MP, Minister for Public Works, Housing and Information and Communication Technology, Queensland State Government

INDUSTRY SESSION – 80 George Street, Brisbane: Wednesday 14 November 2007 (8.00 to 17.30)

Welcome Address: Queensland as a centre for growth; SEQ Regional Plan and Infrastructure Plan: Mal Grierson, Director General, Queensland Department of Public Works.

Keynote Address: Byggsøk & HITOS: Case Studies: Ole Kristian Kvarsvik, Statsbygg, The Directorate of Public Construction and Property, Norway

Keynote Address: Working with Government: Max Smith, Deputy Director-General (Works), Queensland Department of Public Works

Other speakers:

• BIM+IFC pilots: Anthony Job and Team, Project Services, QDPW, Brisbane
• Energy & Building Services Life Cycle Management: Reijo Hänninen, Olof Granlund, Helsinki, Finland
• Where’s that Model for Costing?: David Mitchell, Mitchell Brandtman, Brisbane
• LCADesign: Innovative BIM based Tool for Sustainability: Delwyn Jones, Project Services, Queensland Department of Public Works, and Peter Scuderi, CRC for Construction Innovation, Brisbane
• Revitalising Facilities Management: David Hammond, US Coast Guard
• Demonstration of the eDA: Catherine Anderson, Development Assessment Forum, DOTARS, Canberra
• Recent Structural Developments with IFC: Lassi Lifländer, Tekla, Finland
• Runcorn State Archive: Using 4D: Mark Dohnt, Project Services, Queensland Department of Public Works, and Paul McCarty and Tony Pennisi, Laing O’Rourke
• Integrated practice - a new paradigm for collaborative working in the construction sector: Ross Clark, RAIA, Melbourne
• The HITOS Project - Some Observations for Practice: Lars C Christensen, Selvaag, Norway.

Digital modelling and BIM technologies are acknowledged as crucial to the future of the design, construction and facilities management industry. Presently these technologies are being used in isolation by different parts of the supply chain, limiting their potential.

Individual efforts to change the industry’s culture, processes and technology are now being brought together worldwide in the buildingSMART movement, which has established an open standard (IFC) for the use of object technology in construction and facilities management.

With many national governments such as Finland, Norway, Denmark, Singapore and the US requiring projects to be modeled in IFC-compliant software and the German Federal Government planning to adopt BIM and IFC for its construction programs, it¹s not a question of if your organization will become IFC- compliant, but when.

12-13 Nov
International Technical Meetings

13 Nov
buildingSMART
International Forum (1:30pm-5:30pm)
followed by cocktails (6:00 at GoMA)

14 Nov
buildingSMART
international Forun - whole day

15 - 16 Nov
International Council

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