Ms. Marzia Bolpagni is a PhD Candidate at Politecnico di Milano, where she is investigating ways to manage and control public works through innovative digital approaches. She is the leader of the task group on LOD standardisation for the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) TC 442 on BIM and she is core member of the BIMexcellence Initiative. Currently she collaborates with the BIM Team of the UK Ministry of Justice in London. She has also worked as BIM researcher at VTT /Finland, ITC-CNR /Italy and Massachusetts Port Authority /USA.
Mr. Mads Søndergaard has worked as a consulting engineer in the Danish Construction Industry since 1988 and is currently Executive Vice President in NIRAS. NIRAS is among Scandinavia’s leading engineering companies with 2.200 employees of which more than 750 are building experts. BIM is today an integrated part of the company’s design processes. During his career Mr. Mads Søndergaard has also worked as external lecturer at the Schools of Architecture in Aarhus and Copenhagen, and as Associate Director at Arup in London.
Mr. Morten Norman Lund is a parametric designer, design technologist and project manager at 3XN Architect’s independent innovation unit GXN. Morten has been at GXN as an architect for 5 years now, working mainly on research projects that focus on materials, sustainability, and digital technologies as well as architecture projects. He is currently leading GXN’s latest research into digital fabrication though the Digital Factory Project as well as applying parametric workflows to BIM models in 3XN. Morten’s current work at 3XN and GXN serves to bring digital tools into the later phases of the design process to allow more complex designs to be conceived and built.
Mr. Kenn Clausen is an architect and computational designer with multidisciplinary interests ranging from digital tools and robotic fabrication to design and workflow optimization. Kenn joined GXN in 2014, the research and innovation unit of 3XN Architects in Denmark and works in the fusion between competition, project development and research. He implements and utilizes digital tools, workflow strategies, and design technologies in large-scale building projects and researches in the implementation of robot technologies in concrete formwork fabrication. His scientific contributions and workshops include “Advances in Architectural Geometry”, “Robotic Fabrication in Architecture” and “Design Modelling Symposium”.
Mr. Stephan Lange has been responsible for analysing quality topics resulting from customer complaints and bringing those topics into sustain improvement measures. He is responsible for recall campaign caused by errors/ mistakes including cause analysis. He had been working for Aircraft Component Services of Lufthansa Technik AG for 6 years now.
Mr. Rasmus Dahlberg is a writer and historian specializing in disasters and preparedness. With a unique background as both a fiction and fiction author Rasmus Dahlberg draws both art and science as he explains how the world is connected. He challenges common beliefs about predictability, analysis and control, and opens the door to a new understanding.