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S. 1 Ep. 4 – What’s the Benchmark? feat. Rachel Riopel

1 hour 5 minutes Posted May 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm.

Weather attitudes, folks from LA hate the rain

Introducing Rachel

Change management in a big firm

What is the most expensive part of a technology implementation

Change needs to happen at all levels not just the picks and clicks

Project managers have a lot to lose if something goes wrong

Creating allowances for changes in process

Big firms hesitant to change process high risk, expensive projects

Rachel explains the components of her innovations strategy

Will we see computational design "standards"?

Digital assets and liability

How did Rachel get into Architecture?

Rachel discusses going to college for architecture.

Nate on getting burned out on computers in college.

Rachel was not a "tech person" in college

Misaligned expectations between college and practice

Rachel first hears about Revit

Rachel buys her own copy of Revit so she can learn on her own

Rachel discusses getting her license in parallel with athletics and technology learning

Nate discusses his decision not to become an architect

Rachel goes to Autodesk University, joins HDR shortly after

2008 recession, joining a new firm and betting on technology

Rachel discusses women in technology and architecture

The current state of BIM at HDR

Getting over the hump of talking about data in abstract terms

Nate can't stop with the cliches: Poking the elephant, cracking the nut, skinning the cat

Interoperability can't get any worse, can it?

Cleaning up the mess of data that we have

There is "standards aversion" in architecture

Rachel likes IFC, using it to support benchmarking

We need to be able to access unlock data amidst transforming proprietary software

Wrap-up discussion what should a firm be doing?

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Rachel Riopel - Digital Design Managing Principal at HDR - talks with Nate Miller about change management, technology implementation, women in design technology, and using BIM and open standards to support benchmarking analysis.

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