Archived Sessions

The 14 academic sessions represent the arc of Professor Eastman's career, from his early work in design cognition, through work in computer graphics, solid modeling, building product models, rule checking and BIM. The chairs are leaders in these fields, selected from experts and colleagues of Chuck's from around the world. 

Opening + Keynote 1

Speaker: Rafael Sacks

Descriptive Geometry, Computer-Aided Design, Building Information Modeling, and then....?
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Session 1

Chair: Eduardo Toledo Santos

Rule Checking

Yongcheol Lee
Nicholas Nisbet
Joao Soliman Junior
Ranjith K Soman
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Session 2

Chair: John Messner

BIM Implementation
Frameworks and Standards

Bilal Succar
Roger J Grant
Elena Seghezzi
John Messner
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Session 3

Chair: Keresh Afshari

Automation in Design and Construction

Michael Carrancho
Masoud Gheisari
Mani Golparvar
Luke Faulkner
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Session 4

Chair: Marcelo Bernal

Process Modeling

Timo Hartmann
Isabella Rodrigues Oliveira da Silva
Brey Tucker
Esra Bektas
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Industry Session 1

Session Chair: Stacy Scopano

From the Academy to Industry

Phil Bernstein
Atul Khanzode
Joseph Burns
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Session 5

Session Chair: Fernanda Leite

BIM in Construction Engineering

Yelda Turkan
Thomas Bock
Steven Ayer
Matt Jezyk
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Session 6

Chair: Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi

5D BIM Workflows

Taysheng Jeng
Shu Tang
Dennis Shelden
Brent Pilgrim
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Session 7

Chair: Lucio Soibelman

Eastman's Academic Legacy

Ramesh Krishnamurthi
David Gerber
Paul Teicholz
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Family and Friends Session
Family and Friends Sessions will be hosted on Gatherly.
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Intro + Keynote 2

Speaker: Dr. Ghang Lee

The Eastman Network from 1996 to 2021
— I am not a genius. Are you?
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Session 8

Chair: Carrie Sturts Dossick

Elusive History of BIM

Deke Smith
Robert Aish
Tom Maver
Ashwin Mahalingam
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Session 9

Chair: Robert Amor

Code Compliance Checking

Jiansong Zhang
André Borrmann
Johannes Dimyadi
Jin Kook Lee
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Session 10

Chair: Bonsang Koo

AI and BIM

Junjie Chen
Sherif Abdelmohsen
Ioannis Brilakis
Pingbo Tang
Burcu Akinci
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Industry Session 2

Chair: Wawan Solihin

Impact of BIM on the AEC Industry Worldwide

John Haymaker
Mehdi Nourbakhsh
Jaemin Lee
Thomas Liebich
John Mitchell
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Session 11

Chair: Rudi Stouffs

Interoperability

Robert Doe
Thomas Wortmann
Jim Plume
Leon van Berlo
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Session 12

Chair: Fehmi Dogan

Design Cognition

John Gero
Ashok Goel
ChunHeng Ho
Elif Sezen Yagmur Kilimci
Peter Lloyd
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Session 13

Chair: Jakob Beetz

Semantic Exchanges

Pieter Pauwels
Silvia Meschini
Thomas Krijnen
Wim Gielingh/Jakob Beetz
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Session 14

Chair: Jennifer Whyte

Visualizing Digital Information

Yuqing Hu
Karim Farghaly
Laura Maftei
Dragana Nikolić
Juliana Parise Baldauf
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Family and Friends Session
Family and Friends Sessions will be hosted on Gatherly.
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