MON-DD-002: Data Driven Design: Insights from the ASLA BIM Working Group

Monday, November 14, 2022

9:00am – 11:30am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 307-308

2.50 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW
Ticket Price: $25 per person

Lead Speaker(s)

Radu Dicher, LFA

BIM Manager
SWA Group
Laguna Beach, California

Speaker(s)

Matthew J. Wilkins, ASLA

Sr. Landscape Architect
KTUA
Santa Maria, California
Lauren K. Schmidt, ASLA

Design Technology Specialist
Parallax Team
Burien, Washington
Jack Garcia, Affil. ASLA

Director of Virtual Design & Construction
EDSA, inc.
Orlando, Florida
Phyllis Zhou, ASLA

Senior Associate
Sasaki
Boston, Massachusetts

Within the framework of current major shifts in the AECO industry driven by BIM, particularly the US market, Landscape Architecture fits an ideal coordinating role of connecting tissue between other trades. This session targets to depict concrete solutions to this challenge in a data-centric design world.

Learning Outcomes:

Present an overview of current challenges posed by BIM to the international AECO field, and particularly to the US market.
Reflect very specifically on the current undertakings in the domain, and how this moment is a particularly effervescent time – for all trades, but also in particular for landscape architecture.
Introduce the audience to efforts by ASLA and its BIM Working Group regarding outreach, standards, workflows/processes, tools/utilities, etc. as they pertain to application of BIM to our field. Scalability/implementation.
Expand on BIM deliverables – data standards and infrastructure. More sustainable product by enhanced engineering and integration.
Present specific solutions to challenges of applying current tools to landscape architecture scope. Coordination with trades with scope overlap/interfacing (civil, MEP, architecture), LA addins.
Introduce Revit as design tool, visualization, project management and internal and external coordination.