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Neil Thompson, Director of Digital construction at SNC-Lavalin Atkins, Head of construction innovation hub at the Centre for Digital Built Britain and Honorary associate professor at UCL joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

This podcast takes the listener on a journey around some of the issues and opportunities presenting itself to construction sectors. The mechanisms for communication that we have become acquainted to in our personal lives is setting our expectations for a future in the way that we communicate and collaborate around projects.

Topics of interest in this podcast include;

* Neils history

* Standardisation of new ways to communicate

* “Burly builders”, and how the adoption of BIM by the masses.

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Clifton Harness, CEO and co-founder at TestFit joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

TestFit provides enterprise ready generative design solutions for niches in the design industries. This podcast provides an insight to how a solution solved a problem for the feasibility design stages for Real Estate development and later grew to a more universal solution platform using a useful pattern of design automation development.

Topics of interest in this podcast include;

* Incubating an idea, getting traction and scaling (2 years in)

* Writing algorithms for architects to automate commodity architecture

* Why the future of the technology sectors are integrated via APIs

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Ian Keough, CEO at Hypar, joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

Ian is no stranger to innovation in the AEC world. Famous amongst Reviteers` for his visual programming language Dynamo, he is at it again; This time for the development of the cloud based design automation platform - Hypar.

Insight shared:

* Ian’s background and insight to his frustration with waste amongst the design professions.

* A deep dive into Hypar, including philosophies underpinning its growth and popularity amongst the AEC sectors, and finally;

* Ian’s words of wisdom for new innovators - “There is so much opportunity!”

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Tannis Liviniuk, CEO at Trillium Advisory Group Director joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

Tannis has construction in her blood - Born to a family involved in construction, she is more than familiar with the practices of the industry. Having taken the leap herself into the industry, she shares her views on what is working and in particular, what needs to change.

Topics of interest in this podcast include;

* Evaluating technology processes and quantifying value for clients and contractors.

* Integration of people and processes on projects.

* The gap that exists between SMEs and technology, and the opportunities that beholds.

* The untapped potential of improving diversity in construction.

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Kat Dovjenko, Design Program Manager at the Real Estate R&D lab at Google, joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

Kat is a finance graduate with an appetite for construction; Currently working for a huge client less known for their ownership of assets but more for their applications, datacenters and search engine - Google. In this podcast, she shares her approach to innovation in the built environment and describes how it works inside Google, the initiatives that she is a part of outside of Google and shares some thought leadership around some of the up and coming projects that she expects to impact the AEC sectors through 2021 and beyond.

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Sasha Reed, Director of Industry Advancement at Procore and Co-Founder of the CPC Coalition joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

Sasha enjoyed the beginnings of her in construction whilst working with a speciality contractor where she experienced first hand an industry wide failure to transform with technology. She observed an incoherence of each others needs, no consistent language to communicate and an environment where it was easier to say no than to tackle problems and innovate. Soon after, she was compelled to join a marketing role with Bluebeam to focus on delivering her newfound message to help the industry evolve and also co-founded the CPC coalition with past guest Nathan Wood (Link) during this process.

Sasha now leads industry advancement with Procore where she continues to develop and deliver her message about how our industry can advance.

Topics of interest in this podcast include;

Sashas work as a part of procore.org

The issues around communication and cultural problems in construction

The importance of culture as a foundational layer in industry success taking precedent on Sashas enjoyment of the car industry and patterns of success for successful pit teams in Formula 1 .

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Tom Bartley, CEO at Barbal joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in our built environment.

Amongst the slew of positions and experience within AEC sectors, Tom's dominant background is digital engineering and procurement with WSP. Other notable projects include his involvement with the steering group that gave birth to the PAS 1192 standards, which would become a cornerstone for the ISO 19650 standards in later years. Tom is best known for his role as CEO of Barbal and the futuristic articles he publishes with his outlook on the future of construction. e.g [Towards an internet of construction](https://tom-bartley.medium.com/towards-an-internet-of-construction-6ab9e211c241)

As both a technically astute and forward thinking guest, Ralph and John cut right to the chase with Tom to discuss his views on the future paths of industry evolution and cover some of the things that need to change to make it happen. Topics of interest include:

* How the role of a BIM manager will split into systems vs information architecture

* Consideration if ISO/BuildingSMART will remain the home of interoperability standards for construction

* Universally applicable solutions for consensus building via Barbal

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Ryan Tennyson, Technology advisor at the Scottish Future Trust, and recognised name amongst the innovative UK BIM scene joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about innovation in the AEC industries.

Tennyson shares his journey from questioning BIM as the panacea for the industry, to leading some of the most pivotal initiatives around information management practices for the betterment of the AEC industries. This story is sure to inspire openness amongst industry stakeholders and encourage listeners to invest themselves into taking a look to the future through the Tennyson BIM crystal ball.

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Rebecca Lovelace joins host Ralph Montague accompanied by John Egan to discuss innovation and community in the AEC industries. Rebecca is founder and "Chief dot joiner" at Building People (http://www.buildingpeople.org.uk/) and brings us a really interesting discussion around her journey whilst creating a platform to connect initiatives in the construction industries. As always, enjoy the show and please leave your comments below.

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Rachel Hartley and Adam Menter from Autodesk joins hosts Ralph Montague and John Egan for a discussion about the Autodesk group network and the impact that it is having on Autodesk communities across the globe. Please share your views in the comments below.