Founder & CEO at Snaptrude: A modern, collaborative 3D Building Design Tool (Think Figma/Google Docs for Building Design). 6+ years of experience at the intersection of Architecture, Construction & Tech. Built numerous tools/plugins to improve efficiency for design-construction workflows. Strong research background in computer graphics & geometry processing. Have over ten international publications & multiple patents in the domain of computer graphics, geometry & computer vision. Former project lead of the IDH (India Digital Heritage) project. The team created a workflow to digitize cultural heritage sites & successfully digitized the UNESCO world heritage site of Hampi in India.
For decades, the cost of changing your mind has been AEC’s hidden tax. Owners pay for it in delays, engineers in rework, contractors in RFIs, architects in lost design exploration. Snaptrude goes live: a real project, a real site, a brief, and a fully detailed, editable LOD 300 BIM model in under fifteen minutes. Every layer (massing, program, BIM, drawings) sits on a single connected graph. Every change propagates with provenance. We will run the demo end-to-end and look at what happens to AEC’s economics when iteration is free.
This panel will explore how AI agents will be deployed across design workflows providing multiple benefits, so long as there are checks and balances.
Chair
Alain Waha // Buro Happold
Panelists
– Altaf Ganihar // Snaptrude
– Dov Amihod // Datagrid (A Procore Company)
– Julien Moutte // Bentley Systems
How close are we to having viable alternatives to BIM 1.0? Snaptrude, Motif, Arcol, Hypar, Qonic and Autodesk discuss BIM 2.0 and how the next 18 months to 2 years will be essential to having alternative modelling tools powered by AI.
Chairs
Martyn Day // AEC Magazine & NXT BLD
Richard Harpham
Panelists
Carl Christensen // Autodesk
Altaf Ganihar // Snaptrude
Paul O’Carroll // Arcol
Ian Keogh // Hypar
TBC // Motif
Aaron Perry // Qonic
