Importance and Effect of Standards in Construction

Description

Key Learnings

• Learn how industry standards affect business practices
• Learn how teams navigate changes and adapt to new industry standards
• Learn how construction technology can help teams adopt new workflows
• Learn about the importance and effect of standards in construction and how businesses should adapt

Speakers

• AY

  Angela Yee

  Angela Yee is a senior product manager with the Autodesk Docs team working on the Common Data Environment initiative. She uses her perspective as a former industry professional to advocate for building best-in-class products based on the challenges facing those in the AEC industry today. Angela’s career has spanned the entire building workflow, from design to build to operate. She is a registered architect and has worked in design, construction management, and construction technology product management prior to joining Autodesk. Her specialties in the built environment included institutional work (healthcare and educational), as well as commercial design and construction (retail, hospitality and mixed use residential). Angela is committed to transforming Autodesk customers’ experience with our products, and she speaks as a champion and advocate for the user.
• GD

  Gert-Jan Ditsel

  Dura Vermeer is a family owned company that puts people before technology! So my role at Dura Vermeer is to help my colleagues in Digital Construction. And my role is to provide direction at Management/Board level making Digital Construction ambitions become reality at Dura Vermeer!
• KN

  Kevin O'Neill
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  Lee Ramage

  Currently head of my Organisations Design Management & Information Management functions, I developed, agreed and implemented our corporate governance for Construction Design Management. Working for a Tier 1 Principal Contractor in the UK, I am am strategic lead for design Management in our business, with over 25 Design Managers spread across various regional Business Units, In addition to this I am responsible for Design Management on any Major Projects during bid and Pre-Construction stages, and providing support and leadership to Design Managers working on live construction projects in the major projects division. I have worked in (Construction) Design Management in the UK for over 15 Years, prior to which I spent 10 years in Technical Design and Co-ordination roles for Multi Disciplinary Consultants. I have worked on Projects ranging from £3 to 350m, with teams ranging from small to very large and am used to working with multiple stakeholders with competing needs. I thoroughly enjoy my role and am passionate about standardising the way we work together in the industry, sharing good practice and lessons learned, striving for new and innovative ways to work more effectively. I am married with 2 children, and live in Scotland, just outside Glasgow keen to hear from groups or individuals of a similar background in the construction industry to share thoughts, experiences, issues and solutions.