E2120 – Salla Eckhardt and Sarah Causey

In this episode, the BIMThoughts crew chats with the Director of Transformation Services at Microsoft Salla Eckhardt, and the Director of Design Technology at RATIO Sarah Causey. We discuss Women in BIM, Mentorship, Digital Twins, the Digital Twin Consortium and so much more!

Salla Eckhardt

Sarah Causey

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #ProgressiveElaboration

Here is where you can find Salla and Sarah on the World Wide Web:

Website: Microsoft

Website: Ratio

LinkedIn: Salla (Palos) Eckhardt

LinkedIn: Sarah (Miller) Causey

Twitter: @SarahCauseyBIM

Women in BIM

More information on joining WIB

Construction Progress Coalition (CPC)

Digital Twin Consortium

A couple of great quotes from Salla from this episode. Of course, be sure to listen to the complete episode to get the full context of these quotes.

What is a Digital Twin? (Official DTC definition HERE)

“It’s what BIM was supposed to be 20 years ago.”

The difference between Europe & North America when adopting new technology.

“There is too much money in the North American market, so there is no financial incentive to do things differently.”

Willow Unlock the power of your building and infrastructure data.

Autodesk Project Quantum: the future of BIM? (2017)

What comes after Revit? Autodesk aims to reinvent collaborative BIM (2019)

Autodesk Wants to Kill the File (2021)

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