Building Innovation: The Podcast

In this episode of the Building Innovation podcast, host Johnny Fortune is joined by Salla Eckhardt, Vice President of Innovation, OAC Services. Eckhardt provides a fresh take on empowering women in a predominately male industry, through the lens of her individual journey as a transformational change agent in construction. She also discusses how digital transformation is socially equalizing the industry, shares her experience as a NIBS volunteer, and discusses industry trends, such as AI, smart cities, the metaverse, and data governance.  

Tune in monthly to the official podcast of the National Institute of Building Sciences, where host Johnny Fortune and fellow subject matter experts convene to support advances in building science and technology.

This month, join podcast host Johnny Fortune and Kimon Onuma, President of Onuma Inc. and trailblazer in architecture and technology. Onuma is also the founder of BIMStorm, an international event that brings industry organizations into a virtual environment to explore forward-looking technology. 

In this episode, Onuma outlines the BIMStorm events that help foster collaboration as well as rapid prototyping and problem-solving. Fortune and Onuma also discuss a range of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twins and explore their impact on the built environment. Onuma offers insight into the importance of decoupled data that enables information to be easily shared across applications and databases. He also provides an analogy for the audience to better understand data interoperability and reuse and shares how AI can complement team efforts during the design process.  

Tune in monthly to the official podcast of the National Institute of Building Sciences, where host Johnny Fortune and fellow subject matter experts convene to support advances in building science and technology.

Please join our host Jonny Fortune as he speaks with Adam Matthews,  Head of Global Digital Transformation, Connected Places Catapult this month. Mr. Matthews shares a global perspective of how digital technology standards for the built environment are being developed and implemented around the world and discusses the effort of the UK program and how it pulled together various industry stakeholders to bring about a holistic solution. 

He also shares his thoughts about the similarities between the UK and the US and how the work he previously did with the UK helps inform his contributions to the U.S. National BIM Program. 

Tune in monthly to the official podcast of the National Institute of Building Sciences, where host Johnny Fortune and fellow subject matter experts convene to support advances in building science and technology.

Join NIBS podcast host Jonny Fortune and Penn State Professor of Architectural Engineering Dr. John Messner as they discuss why BIM (Building Information Management) is so important to the industry and the built environment, and provide an overview of the new National BIM Standard.

Tune in monthly to the official podcast of the National Institute of Building Sciences, where host Johnny Fortune and fellow subject matter experts convene to support advances in building science and technology.