AEC Business

I had the pleasure of interviewing Pia Betton, Partner and Director at Edenspiekermann AG. Pia's company designs brand experiences and has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, San Francisco, Singapore and Stuttgart.

We talk about a recent meetup on digitalization and co-creation in the real estate business. Edenspiekermann organized the event with David Chipperfield Architects, and it took place at the 20. IIR Immobilienstandort Hamburg conference.

Visit http://www.edenspiekermann.com/

Contact Pia via email at p.betton(at)de.edenspiekermann.com, or by phone at +49 30 212 808-115.

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SRV, a Finnish building contractor, hosted an interesting seminar on the future of offices and workplaces in Helsinki on June 2, 2015. In this podcast episode, you can hear the presentation by Mikko Kauppinen, Finance Director and Health Innovation Village Project Leader at GE Healthcare.

Mikko tells a story of an uninspiring office campus that GE Healthcare turned into an innovation village.

You can reach Mikko via email at mikko.kauppinen(at)ge.com. The seminar was organized by Talentum Events Oy.

More about the project:

The Finnish Village that Could Be the Next Healthcare Capital

GE’s Coffee-powered Innovation Village in Helsinki

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I had the pleasure of meeting with Lauri Merikallio, Partner at Vison Alliance Partners, in Helsinki. During the interview Lauri explains how he got involved in Integrated Project Delivery, IPD,  and how it's been implemented in Finland.

Lauri Merikallio has become thoroughly familiar with the LEAN philosophy and its application in projects and provision of services. One of the innovations he has introduced in Finland is the Lean Construction concept and alliance model. Currently Lauri is writing his PhD thesis in the University of Oulu. In 2006-07 he studied as a post graduate in the University of California Berkley. He completed his M.Sc. (Eng.) studies in the Helsinki University of Technology in 1992, where traffic engineering and construction economy were his main subjects.

To contact Lauri, send email to lauri.merikallio(at)vison.fi.

 

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On this podcast episode I interview Per Kristiansen, a Danish LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, coach, change and strategy consultant, and a partner at Trivium.

Per talks about how to use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for innovation, about his coaching program and the book that he co-wrote with Robert Rasmussen. You can buy the book from Amazon.com:

Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method

Follow Per on Twitter @Per_LSP and visit Trivium at www.trivium.dk.

Photos are courtesy of Trivium

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My guest is Danielle Dy Buncio, Co-Founder and President at VIATechnik, a Chicago-based engineering firm. Danielle tells about their decision to join CIFE (Center for Integrated Facility Engineering) and shares her thoughts on the future of virtual design and construction.

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In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast Dave Gray, founder of XPLANE and co-founder of Boardthing, talks about innovation, design, and collaboration. The title of the presentation is Gamestorming. Dave gave this inspirational presentation in our Webinar in 2011.

Dave helps large organizations solve complex problems related to culture, innovation and change. He uses structured approaches that help people think, solve problems, and make decisions quickly and collaboratively, with minimum friction.

Dave has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies across all industries. His approaches are not proprietary. They are clearly articulated and have been made publicly available in his book, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers. His second book, The Connected Company, describes a new breed of adaptive, fast-moving organization that’s emerging in the 21st century. Dave's current project is Boardthing, a collaboration platform for distributed teams.

Dave delivers keynotes and hands-on workshops on topics related to innovation, culture and change.

Photo: Maia Garau

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Mlicki, Principal at Rattleback. Jason has been advising architecture, engineering and consulting firms on marketing matters for almost 15 years.

Jason has been a featured speaker at numerous national and local events

including the DMA, the AMA, SMPS Columbus, SMPS Michigan, and the SMPS Heartland Regional Conference. In 2014, he will be speaking at SMPS

Pittsburgh and KA Connect.

While specializing in marketing professional services firms, his agency has

worked with a variety of notable clients including DHL, Emerson, GE Capital,

The Ohio State University, Verizon and Wendy’s.

Connect with Jason via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmlicki/

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In this podcast episode Kerri Lee Sinclair, General Manager at Aconex, explains how their new Aconex Connected BIM enables the management of project-wide collaboration between design and construction teams and handover to the owner. We also talk about today's second product launch, Dynamic Manuals for mobile handover.

Aconex provides a leading cloud collaboration platform for the global construction industry. To learn more about the new products, visit aconex.com.

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In this episode of AEC Business Podcast I interview Mallorie Brodie, co-founder of Bridgit, a leader in user-friendly construction software. Mallorie shares insight on how new technologies like Google Glass and Thalmic Labs’s Myo armband, combined with mobile computing, will change the way we work on a construction site.

Mallorie holds a certificate in Entrepreneurship from the prestigious Richard Ivey School of Business. She is an entrepreneur with experience building and launching a successful e-commerce startup and was recently named one of Canada’s top 36 high impact individuals of 2013.

To learn more about Bridgit visit http://gobridgit.com/

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Matt Handal is a construction industry ‘bids and proposals’ expert and author of Proposal Development Secrets. In this podcast, Matt discusses ways in which AEC companies can radically improve their chances of winning new contracts.

You can reach Matt at www.helpeverybodyeveryday.com.

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