Speaker Bios
Jerry Laiserin, Strategic Technology Consultant Editor & Publisher, The LaiserinLetter
Jerry Laiserin thinks about strategic and tactical effects of digital technologies in AEC/O business practice.
Paul Teicholz, Professor emeritus
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Paul Teicholz founded the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford University and directed that program for 10 years. He is currently a Professor emeritus at Stanford University and consultant in the AEC industry. He received the 2006 Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology awarded by the National Building Museum. He was recognized as among the most significant Innovators to "Technology and Materials" In the Construction Industry over the past 125 years, by Engineering News Record magazine in August 30, 1999. He was also the given the Peurifoy Construction Research Award by the Construction Research Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), in 1999. Finally, he was awarded the Construction Management "Man of the Year" by the ASCE in 1985. Paul has a Civil Engineering degree from Cornell University, a Masters in Construction Engineering and Management from Stanford University and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and is a registered engineer in California. He spent 25 years in industry developing innovative information technologies before returning to Stanford. He has authored over 60 journal papers. He can be reached at: pteicholz@msn.com.
Kathleen Liston, BIM Consultant
Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University
Kathleen Liston is an entrepreneur and consultant to the building and technology industry. As a consultant, Kathleen has worked on over a hundred projects developing and implementing 3D/4D/BIM since 1995. She held positions at Autodesk as the Construction Solutions Product Manager in their Building Solutions Division and as CTO/President and founder of Common Point technologies, a construction simulation software company. Kathleen has a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame, a Masters in Structural Engineering from Stanford University, and is a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
Rafael Sacks, Associate Professor
Structural Engineering and Construction Management
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Rafael Sacks is an Associate Professor in Construction Management at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He has researched information technologies for structural engineering and for construction since graduating from MIT in 1985. During that time, he also gained many years experience in industry developing rebar detailing and other software plug-ins for CAD systems, as well as managing construction projects. Rafael leads the BIM Laboratory at the Israel National Building Research Institute and is involved in industry consortiums specifying next-generation BIM tools. He has also pursued numerous research projects in Lean Construction and is the author of two books and some 30 journal papers.
Chuck Eastman, Professor and Director
PhD Program, College of Architecture
College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Chuck Eastman is an architect, designing several homes and residential buildings in an early career. He is also one of the pioneers of AEC CAD, developing research 3D modeling and early parametric modeling systems in the middle 1970s. He has directed research labs in both computer science and architecture at Carnegie-Mellon University, UCLA and now at Georgia Tech. He currently is Director of the College of Architecture Ph.D. Program at GA Tech and runs the AEC Integration Lab, focusing on BIM application issues.
Professor Eastman recently completed leading the technical advisory team for the Precast Concrete Software Consortium that developed an industry-wide specification for a parametric building modeling system for precast concrete. The specification led to the development of two precast BIM products. He also recently completed advising a similar consortium dealing with BIM tools for reinforced concrete engineering. He recently completed a National BIM standard study of architectural precast, sponsored by the Charles Pankow Foundation, with collaboration with the National Institute of Building Science and FIATECH. He is currently the IT Advisor for the CIMsteel building modeling project sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction. He and his students are currently developing automated design review tools for GSA, based on building models and multi-purpose evaluation tools for early concept design. He is a member of the IFC International Technical Advisory Committee and a member of the National Building Standard Scoping and Model Implementation Committees. He was awarded the Lifetime Research Achievement Award at Bentley Systems International Conference, October, 2000 and the buildingSMART Open Data Award for his work on CIS/2 in the Fall of 2006.
Charles Linn, FAIA
Deputy Editor, Architectural Record
Consulting Editor, GreenSource magazine
Charles Linn graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University in 1978, and practiced architecture until early 1986, when he became the founding editor of Architectural Lighting magazine.
He joined Architectural Record in 1990, serving as editor of its Record Lighting magazine and its editor-at-large for the Northwest region. In 1993 he moved to New York to become a managing senior editor for the magazine. He has written and edited hundreds of articles on every aspect of building design, architectural technology, and firm management.
In 2005 Charles became deputy editor of Record. He leads the editorial development of Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference, now in its sixth year. In 2006 he was a leader in the launch of McGraw-Hill Construction’s new GreenSource magazine and website, as well as Schools of the 21st Century, Record’s annual publication, website, and symposium for the K-12 school market. He is also editor of Record’s monthly Practice Matters column and website, and manages Record’s news department.
He is a member of the architectural honorary society, Tau Sigma Delta, and was elected to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows in 2002. He was named a Distinguished Alumni Fellow by Kansas State University in 1993, and is a member of the KSU Department of Architecture’s professional advisory board. He has been a member of editorial teams that have won numerous American Business Media Awards for excellence in business journalism, Folio Awards for editorial excellence, and five McGraw-Hill Corporate Achievement Awards.
This symposium is made possible by generous support from Reed Construction Data.