Mason Contractors: Learn How Tech is Changing Design and Construction

Words: Dan Kamys

Mason Contractors: Learn How Tech is Changing Design, Construction


Event:

NOW AND NEXT 2014 Symposium on Technology for Design and Construction

Event details:

  • Meet thought leaders and colleagues interested in Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Open BIM Exchange, Software Trends and more.
  • Learn about the innovations that are moving companies and people forward including:

  1. Where and how design and delivery is shifting
  2. Which software applications are transformative
  3. Best practices for collaborative project delivery
  4. How to engage with the global BIM community

  • Connect with and hear from the best and the brightest such as, Jordan Brandt, AutoDesk; Deke Smith, buildingSMART alliance; Ray Topping, Fiatech; Bill East, Prairie Sky Consulting (formerly of the US Army Corps of Engineers).
  • Coordinated by Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering’s MPM Program, www.mpm.northwestern.edu


When:

August 13-15, 2014

Where:

Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL


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