Final Reminder: "Productivity in Building Construction: BIM, Energy, & Software"

 
 IEEE-Madison Section: "Productivity in Building Construction: BIM, Energy, & Software"
 

Building Construction

 

  • Thursday, April 29th at 11:30AM to 1:00 PM
  • Virtual Talk
  • Location: 
          On-Line  (Link will be emailed from your registration information)
  • Please Register at the IEEE-Madison  event page.
  • Sponsored by IEEE-Madison Section
Talk:  This Virtual Meeting features three speakers that will present an overview of important productivity tools for the Construction industry.  Each speaker will give a 20 minute overview of one general area. The last 30 mintues (more if there are still questions) dedicated to a Q&A.

The Topic areas and speakers are:

1. BIM to BEM: Agile Energy Modeling for High Performance Building Design
Krishnan Gowri, Ph.D., BEMP, LEED AP, ASHRAE Fellow, Senior Consultant at Intertek

2. BIM Standards Activity, Collaboration, and Engineering in the BIM Environment
M. Dennis Knight, P.E., FASHRAE, Founder & CEO of Whole Building Systems, LLC

3. Construction Technologies that boost Productivity
Josh Baysinger, Virtual Construction Manager, J.H. FINDORFF & SON INC.

Bios:
Krishnan Gowri is a subject matter expert with more than twenty five years of experience in building science, high performance building design, energy codes, energy modeling and building performance simulation software tools. Krishnan lead the development of COMcheck commercial building code compliance software and served as a consultant to ASHRAE 90.1 Envelope Subcommittee on the infiltration analysis and progress indicators for the 90.1-2013 version of the standard. In his role as product owner at Autodesk, Krishnan was responsible for EnergyPlus integration with Revit and Insight for heating and cooling load calculations and early design analysis. Krishnan also has more than ten years of experience with energy efficiency evaluation of Federal buildings implementing low-cost/no-cost measures.  He is an active member of the ASHRAE technical and standards committees on computer applications, BIM and energy modeling.

Dennis Knight has 47 years experience in the design, construction and operation of buildings.  Dennis holds dual registration as a Professional Engineer in Mechanical and Fire Protection Engineering and is a Principal and Founder of Whole Building Systems, LLC located in Charleston, SC.  He has been applying technology to improve quality control and increase productivity in the building industry since he first used 3 dimensional CAD/CAM tools to help design, prefabricate and construct nuclear power plant piping systems in the late 1970s.  He is an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer on Integrated Building Design and Building Information Modeling and an active member of the BIM Multidisciplinary Task Group and Standard Project committee 224P - The Application of BIM.  Dennis is a co-author of the National Institute of Building Sciences National BIM Guide For Owners (NBGO) and he is the Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for ISO Technical Committee 59, Subcommittee 13 which is responsible for the development ISO BIM Standards 19650 Parts 1 through 5 that are being used throughout most of the world outside the US as a framework for applying BIM to the design, construction and operation of the built environment.

Josh Baysinger began his career at Findorff in 2007 in the Virtual Construction department. As Findorff's Virtual Construction Manager, Josh is passionate about exploring new ways to use technology that help inform project teams on potential solutions. Josh leads the Virtual Construction team which focuses on how to utilize innovative technologies and improve construction processes by increasing efficiency, exchanging communication, and mitigating risk on a job site. Throughout his career, Josh has been involved in many types of projects that range from minor renovations to large additions and standalone buildings.