February 2014
Ecobuild 2014 
, the world’s leading event for sustainable design, construction, energy and the built environment, is being held at ExCeL in London from 4 to 6 March 2014.
Visit the NBS advice pod at the Building Performance & BIM content zone, where you can talk to our subject specialists for advice around BIM and BIM objects. Find the NBS advice pod on stand N140/239.
Plus, our subject specialists will also be speaking at seminars held in the BIM Tech Theatre – do come along and see us. This dedicated theatre will have a full programme of 15 minute presentations with content provided by manufacturers, specialists and tech providers.
Find the BIM Tech Theatre on Stand N132, right beside the seminar area.
Register free for Ecobuild now [LINK REMOVED - NO LONGER CURRENT]
BIM Tech Theatre programme
| Tuesday 4 March | Wednesday 5 March | Thursday 6 March | ||||
| Speaker | Topic | Speaker | Topic | Speaker | Topic | |
| 11.00 | John Tebbit, Construction Products Association | BIM for the Terrified – a Guide for Manufacturers | David Rich, LaFarge Tarmac | BIM for Construction Material Suppliers | Martyn Horne, Vectorworks | Arboleda BIM Project |
| 11.30 | Louise Swift, Interface | BIM from a Manufacturer's View | Clare Watson, Director of Marketing, NBS | The financial case for BIM: architects to manufacturers | Dr Stephen Hamil, Director of Innovation, NBS | BIM through the RIBA Plan of Work |
| 12.00 | Rob Charlton, CEO, _space Group | Manufacturer vs Generic BIM | Frank Wierling, MetsaWood | From lonely BIM to BIG BIM | Daniel Pitkin, Aluk | Integrating Product Specification with BIM |
| 12.30 | Ed Barlett, KyKloud | Taking BIM to 90% of our buildings through building condition surveying | Paul Broadfoot | BIM Development on Priority Schools | 4Projects | Collaborative BIM For Building & Infrastructure |
| 13.00 | Adam Ward, Technical Director | BIM.Technologies.co.uk | Adam Ward, Technical Director | BIM.Technologies.co.uk | Lee Townend, Kingspan | BIM there done that...? |
| 13.30 | David Bosworth, ACO Technologies | Does BIM apply beyond buildings to civils & infrastructure? If so, how? | James Parsons, Moore MicroCAD | A Manufacturer's Guide to BIM | Ian Chapman, Director of the NBS National BIM Library, NBS | Integrating Building Information in the Supply Chain |
| 14.00 | James Parsons Moore, MicroCAD | BIM for the Layperson | Gillian Smith, Bimstore | Sales and Marketing with BIM | Lee Mullin, Autodesk | Autodesk BIM 360 Glue Cloud Collaboration |
| 14.30 | Drew Wigget, Head of Product Information, NBS | Integration of construction information: BIM 2016 and beyond | Ian Chapman, Director of the NBS National BIM Library, NBS | Integrating Building Information in the Supply Chain | John Gelder, Head of Sustainability, NBS | BIM data structures 2: Uniclass2 object mapping table |
| 15.00 | Rob Charlton, CEO, _space Group | Pre-Fabricated Housing utilising BIM | Casey Rutland, Arup Associates | Project_OVE | Duncan Reed, Tekla | Health and Safety improvements BIM |
| 15.30 | Derek Rae, Soluis | Building Information Magic – Bringing your BIM data to life! | John Gelder, Head of Sustainability, NBS | BIM data structures 1: Uniclass2 overview | Koko Udom, Head of Contracts & Law, NBS | The fine print of the legal issues in BIM |
| 16.00 | Paul Broadfoot, _space Architecture | BIM Development on Priority Schools | Robert Klashka | BIM for Small Practice | Close | |
Meet the authors of An Introduction to Passive House and Retrofit for Purpose in the Building & BD Cafe: Thursday 6 March.
- 1:30 – 2:00pm Justin Bere, one of the UK's foremost Passivhaus practitioners and author of An Introduction to Passive House.
- 2:00 – 3:00pm Sunand Prasad, author of the newly launched Retrofit for Purpose: Low Energy Renewal of Non-Domestic Buildings. Sunand Prasad was President of the RIBA from 2007–2009 and was voted one of The Independent's top 100 environmentalists for his work on sustainability during this time.
