Vicki Reynolds talks to Vice Chair of UK BIM Alliance Casey Rutland. Casey discusses his role across the UK BIM Alliance as well as BuildingSMART UK and the impact of the UK BIM Policy and its alignment to ISO19650.

WIB Episode 4 - UK BIM Alliance with Casey Rutland

Vicki Reynolds talks to Marie Grieve, Founder and Managing Director at Costello Palmer about how to communicate and market digital and BIM

WiB Episode 5 - Marketing for Digital with Marie Grieve

Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks to Women in BIM's regional leads from Australia Belinda Thompson, Jenny Tseng, Ligia Trindade and Rachel Strauss as they discuss the current state and future of diversity in the BIM space.

WiB Episode 6 - BIM in Australia

Join the team as they discuss the need to change perceptions around the role of women in construction and BIM.

WiB Episode 7 - Education

Join the Women in BIM New Zealand Regional Leads Melanie Tristram and Keri Niven as they discuss implementing Information Management processes in New Zealand

WiB Episode 8 - BIM in New Zealand

Join Vicki Reynolds as she discusses what it takes to be a great leader with Elaine Lewis. Learn about how Cadventure responded to lockdown, how to manage difficult situations and be true to yourself.

WiB Episode 9 - Digital Leadership with Elaine Lewis and Vicki Reynolds

Join the Women in BIM Scotland regional team. Learn about the work that they're doing, their experience and how you can get involved!

WiB Episode 10 - BIM in Scotland

Listen as WIB Global Chair, Rebecca De Cicco talks to BSI Programme Manager for Digital Construction, Emilia Cardamone about Smart Cities and the implementation of Smart City Standards internationally. 

At BSI, Emilia leads on BIM, Smart tech and new and emerging digital technologies. She is responsible for the development and management of new Certification Schemes to support the digital transformation within the Built Environment sector and she is currently managing The Smart Cities and Smart Communities Kitemark for BSI.

WiB Episode 11 - Smart Cities

Rebecca de Cicco talks motherhood with Elaine Lewis of Cadventure and Vicki Reynolds of i3PT. This touching episode gives insights into the joys and struggles of parenthood as it relates to your career and life. Listen to the panel talk candidly about how they struggled, but ultimately prevailed in the face of different cultural and professional expectations, both their own and of their peers.

WiB Episode 12 - Motherhood

In this insightful episode, join Angana Ghosh our Bangaluru, India regional lead as she hears from Haima Haldar and Debashish about their journeys and the benefits of digital transformation.

WiB Episode 13 - Digital transformation for the construction industry in India

Join Rebecca De Cicco as she talks to Susan Brattberg of Global eTraining to discuss the importance of lifelong learning to improving our careers, our businesses and the AEC sector as a whole.

Women in BIM welcome Global eTraining as our corporate sponsor. As part of the celebration of this new partnership, all Women in BIM members are entitled to 20% off all Global eTraining courses! Contact them to find out more.

WIB Episode 14 - Lifelong learning

Vicki Reynolds reflects on the changing role of men in parenthood with David Philp of Aecom, Paul Taylor of Stride Treglown, Robert Klaschka of EvrBilt and Neil Thompson of Atkins. Get underneath the skin of the role being a parent played in their life while navigating health concerns, careers, running your own business, adopting and self care.

WiB Episode 15 - Fatherhood

Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks to Glider, Women in BIM's long standing partner and supporter with guests John Adams and Sarah Marshall. Listen as they discuss the role that information management and BIM is playing in changing the built environment

WIB Episode 16 - Glider

Join Kirsty Childs, Henry Fenby-Taylor, Carolina Costa and Mia Dibe as they talk about the women in BIM mentoring programme. Across the WiB membership, people are coming together to support one another. No two mentor/mentee relationships are the same, and we all face unique challenges. However, we face them better when we face them together.

WIB Episode 17 - Mentoring

On this International Women’s Day podcast, listen to this conversation between 3 incredible Women in BIM from Autodesk’s Enterprise Customer Success team Soumya Raju, Supriya Prakash and Yashaswini Narayana. Listen to them talking about the topic power of Digital Technology that is revolutionizing the AEC industry.

The AEC industry has already made significant strides in terms of technology and sustainability. However, there is still much room for innovation and revolution, and the industry must continue to adapt and evolve to meet the changing needs of society.

Revolutionizing the AEC industry could involve implementing new tools and processes that facilitate communication and collaboration, such as cloud-based project management platforms.

As digital technology continues to advance, we can expect even more innovative solutions to emerge that revolutionize the way we design, build, and operate buildings and infrastructure.

WIB Episode 18 - Power of Digital Technology (India)

During this new episode new podcast host WIB Global Leadership Team Member and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, Marie Grieve discusses with Dr Marzia Bolpagnee, Head of BIM International - Associate Director for Mace the top five digital trends shaping the construction industry.

Marie asks her guest to tell the listeners a little about her role at Mace and how she applies digital technologies into her projects. Marie and Marzia talk about how Artificial Intelligence is evolving and its increased use in the built environment, plus “Digital Minimalism”, what this means and why it is important!

Listen to the podcast to hear the full list of trends, how these are being applied and what trends will have the biggest influence of the future of construction.

If you enjoy the episode feel free to leave us a rating or connect with us on social media!

WIB Episode 19 - The Top five digital construction trends coming your way

Henry Fenby Taylor, Podcast Manager at Women in BIM, talks to women in BIM at Digital Construction Week 2023.

Episode 20 - Digital Construction Week

What is the value that companies place on a diverse team? Find out from our industry leading panellists who have driven diversity in their own businesses and the benefits that they have gained. Whether you’re looking to enter the workplace for the first time or have a lot of experience, you can get something out of this podcast as our panellists discuss their own journeys from getting into the industry for the first time to hiring and retaining talented individuals as their careers progressed. Bringing in a workforce that transcends previously entrenched social barriers has become in many businesses the norm. We discuss how lived experience and diverse understanding across all social dimensions builds better teams that deliver better results.

Taking multiple world views and avoiding group think with Henry Fenby-Taylor is Sophie Morris - Head of Customer Success at Buildots, Lucy Rowsell - Head of Information Management at EKFB JV for HS2 and Elizabeth Hopkins - Head of Project Planning at Berkeley St. Edwards.

Episode 21 - Diversity = Better Results

How can we support migrant women? Sareh Naji Regional Lead for Iran of Women in BIM talks to Shivani Gopaul about the challenges that migrant women face when travelling to new places to learn and work. We learn about the initiatives and groups set up to support migrant women as well as the importance of acknowledging and embracing intersectional aspects of migrant women's identity.

Episode 22 - Migrant Women

Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks to Ann Deng, Senior Associate at McGregor Coxall - Quality Assurance Lead, whose multifaceted role requires empathy, patience and a 'can do' attitude as she champions using the right workflow, rather than the age old methods with tools like Vectorworks. 

Ann is an inspirational character who shows that you can work smarter not harder, get more out of your working life, and have balance with your personal life. It was our pleasure to have her on the podcast.

Thank you to Vectorworks, our podcast sponsor, for supporting Women in BIM.

Episode 23 - Working smarter, not harder

Join Marie Grieve, Core Team Member of Women in BIM, as she talks to two data experts: Arisca Droog and Maya Tryfona of Schiphol Airport. 

Discover what Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands is doing to advance its data management using the latest techniques, as well as sharing their expertise with the Building smart community. 

We'll also learn more about Arisca and May's own personal journeys and the advice that they would give to women entering the sector.

Episode 24 - Schiphol Airport Digital Twin

During this new episode  of the Women in BIM Podcast, host Marie Grieve, WIB Global Leadership Team Member and Managing Director of Costello Palmer Communications, talks with an amazing woman who has transformed the way we deliver education in schools to bridge skills and knowledge gaps for the construction industry.

Alison Watson OBE, is the Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your Own, the social enterprise which created the award-winning Design Engineer Construct (DEC) education programme.

The two discuss where it all started for Alison with Class Of Your Own, and how it has helped so many young people start a career in the built environment. They discuss the challenges in being heard by those leading the education sector, and the rewards that are gained from helping young people become construction professionals.

The voice of education in construction: Alison Watson

Willow Williams leads the conversation today with Henry Fenby-Taylor, talking about their lived experience with Sybil Taunton who leads Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at RICS. 

We'll hear about the changing landscape of the sector, what Sybil has learned throughout her diverse career from the US military during a period of pivotal change in its acceptance of the LGBT+ community, and how she's setting an example and being a critical friend that challenges the status quo.

Leading EDI - Don't ask, don't tell

With an illustrious career from CEO of the Irish Internet Association to the Creativity, Digitilisation and Sustainability Lead at Siemens with the many important board member roles she holds you would be forgiven for expecting someone less humorous, curious and empathetic than Joan Mulvihill. She has built a career on these traits, asking the awkward questions, connecting the dots and ensuring that no one ever forgets the individual person.
In this candid chat with WiB Global team member Henry Fenby-Taylor, Joan talks about what has shaped her into the person she is today. How she has faced adversity and loss, but come out stronger on the other side championing Critical Creative Thinking.

Critical Creative Thinking with Joan Mulvihill

With a passion for sustainability from a very young age Lucy Lyons, CEO of Kestrix - a new and innovative construction software that maps how heat escapes from buildings – has always questioned why, as an industry, construction isn’t better a decarbonisation. In this podcast, with Women in BIM Global Vice Chair, Marie Grieve, Lucy shares her long-term passion and why this is the foundation upon which she has built Kestrix. Born from a need to support the sustainable retrofit of aging housing stock to improve the way we live, particularly in an age when fuel poverty is a colossal issue, Lucy knows that huge steps must be taken to improve this for so many of us – and she is ready to take these steps! The actions of individuals are important, but we can’t take action to decarbonise construction alone, we must unite to take on the fight as a collective! And the best weapon to ready ourselves for this fight is data.

How much can you save if you have better data? Could it be enough to save a planet?

After a life changing accident and a subsequent cancer diagnosis, Shona Hirons realised she needed to slow down in her career and that by taking small steps she could make a big impact, not only on her own life but on those around her.

Now an international behavioural therapist, Shona shares with WIB Global Vice Chair, Marie Grieve, her life story, the bumps along the way and why prioritising our mental health is so important.  For Shona, her aim is to simply make people feel everyday. This is an inspiring conversation that will make you want to get out of your chair!

Small steps, big impact

Join the core team of Women in BIM Rebecca de Cicco, Vicki Reynolds, Katya Veleva, Jenni Barrett, Gergana Staykova and (in spirit) Nicole de Cicco for their first ever episode as they introduce themselves, discuss the reasons for the group as well as the challenges and opportunities facing women in BIM.

Women in BIM - Episode 1 - Meet the women in BIM

Vicki Reynolds speaks to Hadeel Saadoon about her work in the built environment and the process of digitalising asset information across the Coventry University portfolio of buildings.

WiB Episode 2 - BIM for Operations & FM with Hadeel Saadoon

Join Rebecca de Cicco as she talks with Women in BIM core team member Gergana Staykova and special guest Marzia Bolpagni about the challenges facing teams that are looking to collaborate and how to overcome these challenges with a Common Data Environment.

WiB Episode 3 - Common Data Environment with Marzia Bolpagni and Gergana Staykova

Women in BIM are a not for profit initiative aimed at supporting and growing the number of women in BIM and digital related roles. Our key objectives are to enable a future construction industry where diversity is no longer an issue. Our work focuses on drawing young women into BIM and digital related careers, helping to support women working on BIM projects today, championing and drawing visibility to female leaders in the BIM space in order to grow a more diverse industry. Now in our 10th year we have members and regional representation located all over the world driving this agenda. Our database of women who work in BIM and digital are aimed to support industry events in enabling more female representation. We also aim to provide information and practical advice to support industry and government address diversity issues and how this can support the digitisation of the construction industry. 

WIB Podcasts Sponsored by Vectorworks. Vectorworks seeks to build intuitive, powerful, and practical software solutions for design professionals around the globe. They strive to provide a design space that inspires and empowers designers to create experiences that will transform the world.

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