Salla Eckhardt: Digital Twins and the Future of Digital Tech in Construction at Microsoft
Salla Eckhardt: Digital Twins and the Future of Digital Tech in Construction at Microsoft
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BIM Designs, Inc. is a US-Based Minority Owned Business & Union Signatory Contractor
By Luke Lightning
December 11, 2020
We are very excited to launch the Future Construct Podcast, hosted by Amy Peck (@VirtualGirlNY on Twitter), the Founder/CEO of Endeavor VR, and supported by our partners at Applied Software!
On Episode 1, Salla Eckhardt, the Director of Transformation Services and Worldwide Construction Lead at Microsoft, joins Amy to discuss digital twins, her experiences
as a woman in the construction industry, and the future role of digital technologies
in construction.
Click to listen on Apple, Spotify, or Google, or watch on YouTube
(where you'll see a cameo of Salla's leopard colored cat).
Check out more on Salla's work on her LinkedIn page including her recent post:
Digital Building Lifecycle: Taking BIM to the nth Dimension.
We sincerely hope you enjoy this special episode of the Future Construct podcast and we would love to hear your suggestions for future guests!
- All good things, Luke Lightning, PhD
The Future Construct podcast is produced by the team at BIM Designs, Inc. BIM Designs, Inc. is a minority-owned, US-based, union-signatory preconstruction technology firm, offering turnkey BIM modeling, laser scanning, coordination management, and other VDC solutions to the AEC industry. We'd love to talk with you!
A special thank you to our awesome partners at Applied Software for supporting Episode 26 of this podcast! Applied Software has grown to become one of the largest AEC, MEP Fabrication, Construction, and Manufacturing system integrators in North America. They're here to help you find the best tech solution to meet your needs. Fill out a quick form to request more information.
Show Notes
0:44 Amy introduces Microsoft's Director of Transformation, Salla Eckhardt.
3:23 As a Finnish woman in this industry, do you find it rare that you work with other women, or do you find yourself working with men typically?
9:48 What are ways that you're looking into bringing human factors
into technology?
13:19 What are some of the hallmarks that companies can enact to engage in this open innovation construct within their companies?
18:17 Do you have any projects that you wanted to share or talk about where you're guiding that conversation and helping them with the layers of technology that they need to see the vision?
20:20 So if you could build your dream kind of gadget of the future, let's say for 2050, just for you personally. What would it be and what would it do?
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About BIM Designs, Inc.
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About the Author
Luke joined the BIM Designs team in June 2020 as the Head of Business Development and helps oversee the business development and marketing team's objectives. With over 8 years of business development and sales experience working with startups, accelerators, investors and global enterprise-level companies, he has successfully helped startups scale their sales operations. Previously, he worked in the biotech industry as a research leader for over 9 years resulting in an IPO in 2011.
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