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.