Women in BIM: Recent Episodes
Women in BIM
Women in BIM is a global online community with a vision to support, empower and celebrate female BIM and digital construction professionals.
Collaboration was the buzz word between WIB Global Vice Chair Marie Grieve and her podcast guest, Stefania Correa, BIM and Agile Manager for Concremat in Brazil.
An experienced engineer with a passion for digital ways of working and a specialism in infrastructure, Stefania shares her career journey to date, how her roles have taken her throughout Brazil and South America, and the current state of BIM adoption in the region.
Tune in to this enlightening conversation as Marie and Stefania share wisdom, inspiration, and practical guidance to help you navigate the BIM environment in Brazil, for which Stefania admits the adoption level is good, but there is room for improvement!
After a life changing accident and a subsequent cancer diagnosis, Shona Hirons realised she needed to slow down in her career and that by taking small steps she could make a big impact, not only on her own life but on those around her.
Now an international behavioural therapist, Shona shares with WIB Global Vice Chair, Marie Grieve, her life story, the bumps along the way and why prioritising our mental health is so important. For Shona, her aim is to simply make people feel everyday. This is an inspiring conversation that will make you want to get out of your chair!
With a passion for sustainability from a very young age Lucy Lyons, CEO of Kestrix - a new and innovative construction software that maps how heat escapes from buildings – has always questioned why, as an industry, construction isn’t better a decarbonisation. In this podcast with Women in BIM Global Vice Chair, Marie Grieve, Lucy shares her long-term passion and why this is the foundation upon which she has built Kestrix.
Born from a need to support the sustainable retrofit of aging housing stock to improve the way we live, particularly in an age when fuel poverty is a colossal issue, Lucy knows that huge steps must be taken to improve this for so many of us – and she is ready to take these steps!
The actions of individuals are important, but we can’t take action to decarbonise construction alone, we must unite to take on the fight as a collective! And the best weapon to ready ourselves for this fight is data.
With an illustrious career from CEO of the Irish Internet Association to the Creativity, Digitilisation and Sustainability Lead at Siemens, with the many important board member roles she holds, you would be forgiven for expecting someone less humorous, curious and empathetic than Joan Mulvihill. She has built a career on these traits, asking the awkward questions, connecting the dots, and ensuring that no one ever forgets the individual person.
In this candid chat with WiB Global team member Henry Fenby-Taylor, Joan talks about what has shaped her into the person she is today and how she has faced adversity and loss, but come out stronger on the other side, championing Critical Creative Thinking.
Willow Williams leads the conversation today with Henry Fenby-Taylor, talking about their lived experience with Sybil Taunton who leads Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at RICS.
We'll hear about the changing landscape of the sector, what Sybil has learned throughout her diverse career from the US military during a period of pivotal change in its acceptance of the LGBT+ community, and how she's setting an example and being a critical friend that challenges the status quo.
During this episode of the Women in BIM Podcast, host Marie Grieve, WIB Global Leadership Team Member and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, talks with an amazing woman who has transformed the way we deliver education in schools to bridge skills and knowledge gaps for the construction industry.
Alison Watson OBE, is the Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your Own, the social enterprise which created the award-winning Design Engineer Construct (DEC) education programme.
The two discuss where it all started for Alison with Class Of Your Own, and how it has helped so many young people start a career in the built environment. They discuss the challenges in being heard by those leading the education sector, and the rewards that are gained from helping young people become construction professionals.
Join Marie Grieve, Core Team Member of Women in BIM, as she talks to two data experts: Arisca Droog and Maya Tryfona of Schiphol Airport.
Discover what Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands is doing to advance its data management using the latest techniques, as well as sharing their expertise with the Building smart community.
We'll also learn more about Arisca and May's own personal journeys and the advice that they would give to women entering the sector.
Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks to Ann Deng, Senior Associate at McGregor Coxall - Quality Assurance Lead, whose multifaceted role requires empathy, patience and a 'can do' attitude as she champions using the right workflow, rather than the age old methods with tools like Vectorworks.
Ann is an inspirational character who shows that you can work smarter not harder, get more out of your working life, and have balance with your personal life. It was our pleasure to have her on the podcast.
Thank you to Vectorworks, our podcast sponsor, for supporting Women in BIM.
How can we support migrant women? Sareh Naji Regional Lead for Iran of Women in BIM talks to Shivani Gopaul about the challenges that migrant women face when travelling to new places to learn and work. We learn about the initiatives and groups set up to support migrant women as well as the importance of acknowledging and embracing intersectional aspects of migrant women's identity.
What is the value that companies place on a diverse team? Find out from our industry leading panellists who have driven diversity in their own businesses and the benefits that they have gained. Whether you’re looking to enter the workplace for the first time or have a lot of experience, you can get something out of this podcast as our panellists discuss their own journeys from getting into the industry for the first time to hiring and retaining talented individuals as their careers progressed. Bringing in a workforce that transcends previously entrenched social barriers has become in many businesses the norm. We discuss how lived experience and diverse understanding across all social dimensions builds better teams that deliver better results.
Taking multiple world views and avoiding group think with Henry Fenby-Taylor and Sophie Morris - Head of Customer Success at Buildots, Lucy Rowsell - Head of Information Management at EKFB JV for HS2 and Elizabeth Hopkins - Head of Project Planning at Berkeley St. Edwards.
Henry Fenby Taylor, Podcast Manager at Women in BIM, talks to women in BIM at Digital Construction Week 2023.
During this episode, new podcast host Marie Grieve, WIB Global Executive Leadership Team Member and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, discusses the top five digital trends shaping the construction industry with Dr Marzia Bolpagni, Head of BIM International - Associate Director for Mace.
Marie asks her guest to tell the listeners a little about her role at Mace, and how she applies digital technologies into her projects. Marie and Marzia talk about how Artificial Intelligence is evolving and its increased use in the built environment, including “Digital Minimalism” – what this means and why it is important!
Listen to the podcast to hear the full list of trends, how they are being applied, and what trends will have the biggest influence on the future of construction.
During this new episode new podcast host WIB Global Leadership Team Member and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, Marie Grieve discusses with Dr Marzia Bolpagni, Head of BIM International - Associate Director for Mace the top five digital trends shaping the construction industry.
Marie asks her guest to tell the listeners a little about her role at Mace and how she applies digital technologies into her projects. Marie and Marzia talk about how Artificial Intelligence is evolving and its increased use in the built environment, plus “Digital Minimalism”, what this means and why it is important!
Listen to the podcast to hear the full list of trends, how these are being applied and what trends will have the biggest influence of the future of construction.
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On this International Women’s Day podcast, listen to this conversation between 3 incredible Women in BIM from Autodesk’s Enterprise Customer Success team Soumya Raju, Supriya Prakash and Yashaswini Narayana. Listen to them talking about the topic power of Digital Technology that is revolutionizing the AEC industry.
The AEC industry has already made significant strides in terms of technology and sustainability. However, there is still much room for innovation and revolution, and the industry must continue to adapt and evolve to meet the changing needs of society.
Revolutionizing the AEC industry could involve implementing new tools and processes that facilitate communication and collaboration, such as cloud-based project management platforms.
As digital technology continues to advance, we can expect even more innovative solutions to emerge that revolutionize the way we design, build, and operate buildings and infrastructure.
Join Kirsty Childs, Henry Fenby-Taylor, Carolina Costa and Mia Dibe as they talk about the Women in BIM Mentoring Programme. Across the WIB network, Members are coming together to support one another in this empowering programme. No two mentor/mentee relationships are the same, and we all face unique challenges - however, we face them better when we face them together.
Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks to Glider, Women in BIM's long standing partner and supporter with guests John Adams and Sarah Marshall. Listen as they discuss the role that information management and BIM is playing in changing the built environment
Join Rebecca De Cicco as she talks with Susan Brattberg of Global eTraining, discussing the importance of lifelong learning to improving our careers, our businesses and the AEC sector as a whole.
Episode 13 of the Women in BIM Podcast series is now live. During this episode, WIB Regional Lead for Bangaluru in Indian and WSP Associate Angana Ghosh talks to WSP’s Head of iCRC Debashish Das and Head of Digital Business, Global Technology Centre, India for SNC Lavalin, Haima Haldarabout their own career journeys and what led them to BIM.
Angana asked our guests the current status of digital transformation across the construction industry in India, with both agreeing that construction generally in the region has been relatively slow to transform its ecosystem into a digitised one. However, there are positive signs that streamlining business processes with the help of digital solutions is going a long way in overcoming challenges faced by the industry.
The demand for a smart and sustainable culture is gaining ground with 66% of construction companies say digital transformation is a key priority to drive much needed change.
Listen to the conversation in full and hear more about the delivery of digital construction methods across India.
During this episode, WIB Global Chair, Rebecca De Cicco talks to Vicki Reynolds, WIB Regional Lead and Chief Technology Officer for i3PT, and Elaine Lewis, WIB Mentor and Managing Director for Cadventure about balancing a career and family life.
Rebecca asked our guests for their insights into building a successful career whilst raising a family. In this episode we hear how it is most certainly possible to both raise our passions and our children.
Listen as WIB Global Chair, Rebecca De Cicco talks to BSI Programme Manager for Digital Construction, Emilia Cardamone about Smart Cities and the implementation of Smart City Standards internationally.
At BSI, Emilia leads on BIM, Smart tech and new and emerging digital technologies. She is responsible for the development and management of new Certification Schemes to support the digital transformation within the Built Environment sector and she is currently managing The Smart Cities and Smart Communities Kitemark for BSI.
Episode #10 of the Women in BIM Podcast series is now live. This episode has a stellar line-up of Scottish-born digital construction experts whose BIM careers have taken them all round the world.
Our host is David Philp, WIB Regional Lead for Edinburgh. David is Director for Digital Strategy and Innovation at AECOM, and Impact Director for the Construction Innovation Hub. David invites Dr Jennifer McDonald, Diane Ramage and Kathryn Donald to discuss the state of play with BIM in Scotland today, and the impact this is having on the AEC industry in the region.
This impressive group of WIB Regional Leads and Members discuss the increasing adoption levels across Scotland of digital construction processes, but stress that there is also the need to get the basic building blocks in place first.
Our first podcast for 2022 features Vicki Reynolds and Elaine Lewis: two immensely talented and successful women in business, leading the field internationally in BIM and Digital Construction.
In this episode, entitled Digital Leadership, Vicki and Elaine discuss leadership, building confidence, empowerment, imposter syndrome, and why it’s important to recognise your accomplishments and the accomplishments of others.
Elaine explains both the joys and the challenges of running a business, and how she has worked hard to build a diverse team that supports each other’s strengths, whilst practicing what they preach.
Rebecca De Cicco is joined by WIB Regional Leads for Auckland and Christchurch, Melanie Tristram and Keri Niven. Listen as these digital construction experts talk about BIM in New Zealand and the current impact of emerging technologies within the region. Drawing upon their own experiences on recent projects and new governmental initiatives shaping the future of the country’s construction and infrastructure programs.
The podcast is also supported by another of our New Zealand’s Regional Leads for Auckland, Simoné Roux in her article, Digital maturity and adoption across New Zealand – this is Simoné ‘s account of digital transformation, expanding on some of the themes discussed in our podcast.
Jenni Barrett, Director at coLAB and Senior Lecturer & Researcher at University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), is joined by Alison Watson, Founder & Chief Executive at Class of Your Own, Kirsti Wells, Business Development Manager at CADCOE and Tara Brooks, Programme Lead at Queen’s University in Belfast. Listen in as these education thought-leaders discuss the Women in BIM Education Network’s new research initiative into gender disparity in the construction industry.
Rebecca De Cicco is joined by a four WIB Regional Leads based throughout Australia: Jenny Tseng, Principal Digital Advisor at Mott MacDonald, Belinda Thompson, BIM Lead - Western Australia at GHD, Rachel Strauss, BIM Manager at BIMCO and Ligia Trindade, Digital Coordinator for Willow.
Listen in as these leaders in their field discuss equality in the AEC industry and what this means – specifically for the diversity of the BIM environment. Our BIM specialists look at where this cultural journey is taking us and how we can cultivate a more inclusive industry.
Vicki Reynolds, WIB Global Vice Chair, talks with Marie Grieve, Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications – a marketing consultancy specialising in creativity and innovation, working with leading names in the AEC industry, growing already established brands and inventing new ones.
Listen to Vicki and Marie discuss the art of storytelling and how to be not only a good, but a great communicator – and how to be seen and heard in a crowded market place. Marie gives some thought-provoking advice on how to tell your own BIM-story and what’s next for an industry that is preparing for a digital make-over.
In this episode podcast host, Vicki Reynolds, WIB Global Vice Chair, talks with digital transformation advocate, Casey Rutland. A man with many titles, Casey is the UK Director of Digital at Royal HaskoningDHV, Founding Director of digitalgreen.io, Vice Chair of the UK BIM Alliance and guest lecturer for Middlesex University and the University of Westminster. Listen to Vicki and Casey discussing the UK BIM Framework, the benefits it brings to the construction industry, and the hurdles we need to overcome collectively as an industry to fully realise these benefits.
Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks with Women in BIM core team member Gergana Staykova and special guest Marzia Bolpagni about the challenges facing teams that are looking to collaborate and how to overcome these challenges with a Common Data Environment.
On Thursday September 3, Women in BIM had the pleasure of recording our second podcast for the year where Global Vice Chair Vicki Reynolds had a discussion with Regional Lead Hadeel Saadoon, BIM Manager at Coventry University, about her work in the built environment and the process of digitizing asset information across the Coventry University portfolio of buildings.
Join the Women in BIM core team of Rebecca De Cicco, Vicki Reynolds, Katya Veleva, Jenni Barrett, Gergana Staykova and (in spirit) Nicole De Cicco for their first episode as they introduce themselves and discuss the reasons for the creation of the group, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing women in BIM.