Reduced Risk and Improved Productivity on CAHSR Using Autodesk Build and Autodesk Takeoff

Description

Key Learnings

• Discover how organization and structuring the data with Autodesk Build reduces risk.
• Learn how the use of Autodesk Takeoff improves productivity of completing estimates.
• Learn how nontraditional applications solved a problem.
• Learn why planning and data organization is a must on large projects.

Speakers

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  Kevin Lucht

  Kevin Lucht currently serves as a Senior Digital Solutions Manager for Arcadis in Tampa, FL. Kevin is a registered professional Civil Engineer in three states. He has thirty-five plus years engineering project production and project management experience in heavy civil engineering projects, as well as an expert with BIM applications and digital engineering systems. Kevin has worked with clients worldwide in the areas of Highway, Aviation and Rail design. Kevin received a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and started his career in the highway design field initially with MODOT and later with RS&H. Most of his engineering and PM career he served with CH2M Hill, HNTB, and Bechtel. Kevin has also worked for Intergraph and Bentley in their InRoads civil engineering group, as well as being a consulting project manager for numerous ProjectWise deployments to major civil projects and large AEC customers. Kevin’s significant projects and experience have been on large design-build and program management works domestically and internationally. With CH2M Hill he was lead airfield engineer on the upgrades to the Manas Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and served as the Design System Technology Lead on the MASDAR City program in Abu Dhabi, UAE. While at Bentley he was seconded to Arup as an engineer and technology consultant for the M6 Birmingham Northern Relief toll road and for 2 years Kevin worked exclusively with Bechtel on the Dulles Metro DB light rail project. With HNTB, he was deputy PM for the P3 Eagle light rail DB in Denver, supported the I-405 (Carmageddon) DB and the CA HSR corridor study. While with Bechtel he provided engineering and BIM support on LNG plants in Texas and Mozambique, the WAAD Al Shamaal city DB in Saudi Arabia, and the CrossRail project in the UK. Currently with Arcadis he has global responsibility for Digital applications and CDE systems, as well as provides digital application support to the CM group in the US.
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  Ann Blanchard

  Ann Blanchard has over 25+ years of construction experience managing complex projects and program from $250K to $150M. She is a team leader who is proficient at identifying critical scopes of work, developing risk mitigation strategies, driving schedules, pro-actively managing potential budget impacts, establishing document control protocols, and is ever conscious of safety risks. Ann is proficient at identifying and implementing digital project management solutions for project specific reporting workflows, single source of truth collaboration, timely issue identification and resolution, and asset management data collection. She is fluent in MEP, building automation and specialty gas systems relevant to hospital and cleanroom construction. Ann continues to mentor those within her scope of work about project management best practices with technology integration. A visionary of digital sustainability client offering, she is an integral part of the Arcadis global initiative customizing and beta testing productivity enhancing solutions. She looks forward to the next client’s construction management challenge requiring a digital strategy to increase productivity and drive schedules.