Tag: Meet
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Meet Damon Hernandez, Founder of the AEC Hackathon
I sat down with Damon Hernandez in Helsinki at Urban3, the home base of the Finnish digital built environment ecosystem. We discussed the AEC Hackathon and Damon’s passion for connecting the digital and physical worlds. I initially met Damon Hernandez in November 2015 at the first AEC Hackathon in Finland. The hackathon followed the trademark…
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Meet Niknaz Aftahi, the CEO and co-founder of aec+tech
Aarni Heiskanen recently chatted with Niknaz Aftahi, a keynote speaker at the WDBE 2022 conference. She touched on her path to becoming a construction technology advocate, her Big Why, the reason she started her own company, and so much more. Niknaz went against all odds to become an architect. For context, she received her Bachelor…
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Meet Jacqueline Rohrmann, the Tesla Gigafactory BIM Expert
Aarni Heiskanen had the pleasure of meeting with Jacqueline Rohrmann, a keynote speaker at the WDBE 2022 conference. She talked about the digitalization of the construction sector, her experiences as a design manager at Tesla, and the industry’s future. If you’re a designer learning to use Revit, a BIM tool, you might have watched some…
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Bridging the Gap: Using Computational Design to Meet Today’s Infrastructure Demands
In the race to repair our failing infrastructure, BIM and computational design can help us build faster, better, and cheaper – Mac Little, Computational BIM Lead and Anton Dy Buncio, COO, VIATechnik The transportation infrastructure of the U.S. is approaching failure at an alarming rate – the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card issued by the American…