Explore the Agenda
7:00 am Check-In, Coffee & Networking
7:45 am Advancing Construction Opening Remarks
7:45 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Evaluating Technology for Maximum Value
8:00 am Building Repeatable & People-Centric Processes to Evaluate Technology Investments
- Developing effective feedback loops to uncover where there are critical gaps in our technology stack that cannot be filled by other solutions, and identifying which individuals and teams should be involved in this process
- Sharing internal processes to verify whether a tool solves core problems without creating workflow burden, engaging technology users with tool selection
- Ensuring the evaluation process is centralized to mitigate the creation of tech stack duplications and redundancies
8:30 am Panel Discussion: Balancing Tangible Versus Intangible ROI to Validate Investment
- Exploring the difference between measurable impacts such as time saved and reduced rework with sentiment-driven indicators such as user interface, ease of use, and satisfaction, and the challenges of evaluating these
- Examining how ROI depends on matching the tools to the right roles
- Sharing how we quantified and built the business case for a tool investment
9:15 am Session Reserved for Autodesk Construction Cloud
9:45 am Morning Networking Break
Track 1: Building Information Modeling
Track 2: Applying Technology in the Field
Track 3: Technology & Innovation Strategy
Track 1: Building Information Modeling
Creating & Maintaining a BIM-Forward Culture
10:45 am Overcoming a Lack of BIM Adoption to Maximize the Cost & Efficiency Benefits
Senior VDC Manager, Andersen Construction
- Evaluating how shortened timelines are redistributing BIM responsibilities within project teams, and how differing BIM readiness within project teams creates friction, delays, RFIs, and additional training
- Sharing our story of a hospital project where throughout virtual construction we have increased the number of people in the project model across project partners from 22 to 445
- Showcasing how we proved and measured the value of BIM to drive adoption without overwhelming teams, and how interior and structural superintendents now manage BIM meetings that are relative to their scope of work while VDC teams are working through gross coordination
11:15 am Technology Spotlight to Be Revealed
11:45 am Scanning Existing Conditions to Improve As-Built Models & Verify Design Intent
Senior Construction Technologist, Skender
Senior Virtual Design & Construction Manager, BIM Expert,, Skender
- Outlining how to select and apply different capture methods, including terrestrial LiDAR, SLAM LiDAR, and 3D Gaussian Splats for different applications to create reliable, more accurate BIM models across building elements in design
- Discussing how to collaborate and communicate with Owner, Designer, and Contractor partners on how to leverage scan data
- Examining how scans are used for documentation to confirm existing conditions against design intent as a quality control overlay
Track 2: Applying Technology in the Field
Track 3: Technology & Innovation Strategy
12:15 pm Networking Lunch Break
Track 1: Building Information Modeling
Track 2: Applying Technology in the Field
Track 3: Technology & Innovation Strategy
Track 1: Building Information Modeling
Maximizing the Insights from BIM
1:15 pm Driving Consistent Model Coordination to Enhance Constructability & Reduce Rework
VDC Manager, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
- Establishing clear, repeatable expectations for model content that are translatable to the field and organized for task-level work, especially as models become more complex
- Setting a rhythm for coordination meetings and maximizing their efficacy to enable real-time BIM verification and ensure decisions are translated into model updates and field actions
- Tracking the variance between planned versus installed and rework cost avoided to take learnings to subsequent projects
1:45 pm Technology Spotlight to Be Revealed
2:15 pm Developing Innovative Approaches Beyond Design Build to Improve Efficiency
Senior Virtual Design & Construction Manager, Skanska
- Comparing two mission critical projects’ time and cost savings to standard design-bid-build using a new approach
- Starting the construction model during design at LOD400 so when design drawings are finished we already have nearly constructable, fabrication-level documents
- Sharing how this removes trade contractor modelling and cuts coordination time, enabling prefab assemblies and faster installs
- Quantifying our savings and creating a plan to scale from proof-of-concept to a standardized national approach
Track 2: Applying Technology in the Field
Track 3: Technology & Innovation Strategy
2:45 pm Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
Optimizing Tool Implementation to Maximize Adoption
3:45 pm Mastering the Process of Successful New Tool Implementation to Drive Success
- Sharing our step-by-step successes and lessons learned from implementing a new tool into our technology stack
- Minimizing the impact on existing workflows and exploring how to ensure that the tool is adapting to how the teams already work
- Evaluating how best to communicate to employees during a new tool implementation so they don’t get overwhelmed and adoption drops
4:15 pm Session Reserved for Procore
4:45 pm Planning the First 100 Days to Achieve Predictable, Cost-Certain Delivery
- Importance of the first 100 days in construction life cycle
- Integrating LOD and WBS and CBS for cross silo communication for all stakeholders
- Developing 4D and 5D adaptive BIM that changes with varying scope and priorities
- Embedding reality capture pipelines to feed real-time insights
- Assessing KPIs based on multiple real-time dashboards