Architecture, Engineering, & Construction Keynote

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Speakers

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  Cory Dippold

  Cory Dippold is a Vice President and Head of Strategic Project Applications for Mott MacDonald. Cory is responsible for digital project delivery technology and is a licensed professional engineer. Since joining Mott MacDonald in 2003, he has worked as a lead design engineer, project manager and applied technology professional on a wide variety of infrastructure projects including industrial facilities, water and wastewater treatment plants, pump stations, solid waste facilities, subsurface infrastructure, and tunnels. Cory led the implementation of BIM within Mott MacDonald’s North American region starting in 2007. He took over as the North American Project Technologies Group director in 2013, followed by Head of Digital Delivery Services in 2016 and is now Mott MacDonald’s Head of Strategic Project Applications. Through this group, Mr. Dippold works with selected project teams to identify the best technologies and digital delivery strategy for advanced project delivery. The strategic project applications team develops strategies to implement the technology, and provides ongoing support to ensure the project delivery efforts are fully enabled by the selected technology. Cory is also currently the project manager and EoR on a major capital project to evaluate and restore the Lower Catskill Aqueduct for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. Cory has been working in the AEC industry for over 15 years and holds a BS and MS Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut.
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  Nidhi Sekhar

  Nidhi Sekhar is a Senior Computational Designer at LERA Consulting Structural Engineers (LERA). Nidhi focuses her efforts on developing and optimizing software that solves problems arising from the structural design workflow. She creates complex parametric models and simulations and devises solutions for automating various parts of the design process. She is the co-creator of Cuttlefish, an interoperability platform developed by LERA+, LERA’s in-house computational research arm. She earned a Master of Science in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was involved in researching generative design and real-time human-machine collaboration in high skill domains. She also holds a Bachelor of Architecture from L.S. Raheja School of Design in Mumbai, India.
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  Andy Leek

  I am responsible for strategic planning, enterprise implementations, and innovation. My tenure at PARIC has focused on developing a proactive strategy to integrate cloud-based tools and processes that enable extended project teams to be more collaborative and efficient. The convergence of AEC technology and a variety of industry experience has enabled me to lead a proactive VDC team with a focus on design, controls, big data, and field innovations. By developing several collaborative partnerships with various technology providers to influence the development of new tools and processes I have enabled integrated preconstruction activities, including model-based QTO and cloud-based estimating, scheduling, along with reality capture tools such as aerial scanning and 360 time-lapse photos, to improve project/data management and information sharing. My highly integrated approach to technology has enabled PARIC to grow our use of technology rapidly, with confidence and accuracy.