UKBIMA – East
LATEST NEWS
Our most recent event focused on a Department of Education research and development project delivered using BS EN ISO 19650.
This case study looks at the development of the project from an Information Management perspective. At the heart of this project is the implementation of ISO19650 to define and manage information that will support the brief for the project.
Watch a recording of the event below.
Leadership Team
Presentations from previous events
MARCH 2021
A77 Maybole_Bypass_Adam Davies and Marcin Sokolowski
Coppermills_RGF_Digital_Innovation_Jonathan May
Watch the recording of the event here
FEBRUARY 2016
Feb2016 Standards in plain language – Rob Jackson, Bond Bryan
Our Leadership Team
Craig Hardingham
Chair UKBIMA East
Craig is the Digital Manager Water and Asset Management for Sweco and has over 20+ years’ experience working within the AEC industry specialising in civil and structural engineering.
His passion for technology and collaboration has led Craig to developing a number of digital workflows between BIM authoring tools. The design and coordination of a £76m Energy from Waste project was enhanced through seamless data exchange of the geometric and analytical models between disparate authoring and analysis tools.
Emma Rees
Emma is a BIM Manager at Wates and is responsible for the development and implementation of BIM and digital construction across the Northern Home Counties. She is also a core member of the Wates BIM team, developing group wide strategy, procedures and protocols and sharing lessons learnt and best practice across the wider business.
Emma has over 13 years’ industry experience, working with main contractors in both buildings and infrastructure. Emma began her life in the construction industry working in CAD, moving into Architectural design and finally BIM and digital construction, where her passion lies
Karl Thurston
Karl joined Graphisoft as BIM Consultant in 2017, to help customers improve their workflows and use ARCHICAD more effectively; to provide detailed customer insight to Graphisoft product development teams, ensuring that software solutions meet the market needs; and to build closer links with universities and colleges.
An architectural technologist by training, Karl has a passion for buildings and the built environment; he always looks for ways to innovate, developing systems and procedures to mitigate risks, improve quality and drive efficiency.
An advocate of Open BIM, Karl strives to bring design and construction teams closer together, by facilitating more effective collaboration and communication to deliver improved building assets
Bryn Mainwaring
Bryn is an Architect with industry experience spanning 30 years, including BIM authoring, and Information Management. He is a BIM Advisor for the Building Research Establishment (BRE) delivering training, carrying out conformity assessments. His passion is organisational BIM strategy, standards and terminology, and change management focusing on implementation.
Martin Carr
Martin is the Pre-construction Manager for RG Carter Southern. Initially qualifying as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and having worked throughout his career on design and build projects Martin has led teams in bids and delivery. Martin has worked with senior leadership teams developing digital design strategies and overseeing implementation.
Martin has extensive experience in the Education and Defence sector and was a member of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) Special Interest Group who developed Employers Requirements, standard BIM Execution Plans and a BIM manual to communicate BIM requirements to MOD teams, stakeholders and contractors.
Martin is passionate about information management supported by digital tools to ensure collaboration in design is maximised and information is managed in a manner that supports an efficient construction process and building use.
Andy Boutle
Andy is Head of BIM for Kier Construction. He is part of Kier’s core digital transformation team and responsible for BIM strategy and implementation across the construction division. He works closely with specialist BIM resources, departmental teams and leadership throughout the business to drive widespread and consistent BIM implementation within Kier.
Andy is focused on ensuring the foundations of information management are in place, to build on the value proposition of improved digital delivery to clients and to help generate internal efficiencies.
As co-lead for the Alliances’ Engagement workstream, Andy works to ensure consistent messaging and widespread outreach to industry regarding information management using BIM. Along with many others from the UK BIM Alliance, Andy is co-author of the UK BIM Framework guidance to BS EN ISO 19650 series of standards.
Pam Bhandal
Pam’s focus is to drive UK BIM Alliance’s engagement activities to ensure consistent messaging and widespread outreach to industry regarding information management using BIM. Supporting and working with the UKBIMA East leadership is one route toward this.
In her day job, Pam works as a freelance marketing consultant supporting organisations within the UK Built Environment with their marketing needs.
Pam can be seen at many industry events across the country tweeting live. managing stands and networking.
