May Winfield, global director of commercial, legal and digital risks for Buro Happold. In this role she leads the global commercial and legal team. The digital aspect of the role includes active involvement in developing new policies, systems, documents and procedures on construction technology, information management and BIM, as well managing the risk of implementing new digital-related technologies and services. May is a senior construction lawyer of over 19 years’ experience and is recognised as a global specialist in risk management and legal issues of digital and construction technology. May has a passion for innovation in the industry and has provided pragmatic advice and thoughts on the legal impact of construction technology to clients and at events worldwide for some years. May has authored and co-authored various documents in this field, including legal guidance on the ISO19650 Information Management international standard, an ISO19650-compliant Information Protocol, a JCT Practice Note on BIM and the CIOB AI Handbook. She is one of the co-authors of the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s Digital Twins Roadmap and their recently released Digital Twins Toolkit Report. She is a nima (formerly UK BIM Alliance) Ambassador, co-founder and chair of BIM4Legal (a forum for lawyers and industry to increase knowledge on legal issues of BIM) and a member of various other industry groups seeking to support the industry in progressing and implementing digital technology.
May Winfield brings another practical review of some of the latest key issues arising from digitisation and data use – that you may be sleepwalking into. Are you using a number of AI tools and software programmes to develop, check and manage your data? What if one of them makes an error? Are you at fault for the resulting cost and delay? Are there ways to practically manage the risks? What if you want to change tool/software providers… can you and what is the cost? And the age old chestnut, do you own your data? Do you know what terms that tool and software providers can hold you to on all of these?
