EU BIM Task Group General Assembly 2024

On October 16th 2024 the EU BIM Task Group (EUBTG) held it’s annual General Assembly meeting in Berlin hosted by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport. Milena Feustel was appointed as Chair of EUBTG and Dmitrijs Kots as Co-chair until the next General Assembly. 

The meeting was moderated by chair Jaan Saar and Milena Feustel.  The meeting included 2 keynotes from Thomas Liebich about ISO/CEN/bSi standards and Christophe Sykes about CPR and construction products.

Additional speakers included Aidan Mercer from buildingSMART International, Pablo Gutierrez from DG GROW, Georgios Kontopoulos from PwC presenting the results of the EC study on “Support of the digitalisation of the built environment, public procurement and SMEs in construction”, Anna Moreno about the establishment of the EU openBIM Forum and Anette Persson about EPBD implications.

And we had country updates by members from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine and also the European Parliament.

The full agenda:

09:00 – 09:30   Coffee and arrival
09:30 – 09:45   Opening words by chairs and DG GROW
09:45 – 10:40   Keynote presentations:

• Christophe Sykes, Director General of Construction Products Europe
  “Implications of a revised EU legal framework for construction products (CPR)”
• Thomas Liebich from buildingSMART Germany
  “Update on IFC and IDS developments”

10:40 – 10:50   Our contribution to EC activities and collaboration with DG GROW, planned activities 2025/2026 (Pablo Gutierrez, DG GROW)
10:50 – 11:00   “Digitalisation of the built environment” study results (Georgios Kontopoulos, PwC)
11:00 – 11:20   EPBD implications for the future (Anette Persson, DG ENER)
11:20 – 11:40   Establishment of the European openBIM Forum (Anna Moreno, buildingSMART Italy) and update on buildingSMART International main activities (Aidan Mercer, bSi)
11:40 – 12:00   EUBTG Workshops overview (Jaroslav Nechyba) 
12:00 – 13:00   Lunch
13:00 – 13:15   EUBTG Survey results overview (Dmitrijs Kots)
13:15 – 14:15   EUBTG planning 2025:

• Changes in EUBTG chair/co-chair positions
• Establishment of a possible advisory Board for EUBTG?
• 2025 focus activities (survey comments, on-site discussion)
• Collaboration with EUBIM Public Officials Group

14:15 – 15:15   Members updates, updates from last GA, how can the EUBTG support you?
15:15 – 15:45   Networking Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 – Members updates continued…
16:45 – 17:00 – Wrap-up and closing

All the presentation slides can be downloaded as a single PDF file (27MB)

Along with updates and presentations the General Assembly also approved changes in the leadership of the EU BIM Task Group. Current Chair Jaan Saar and Co-Chair Jaroslav Nechyba relinquished their positions due to moving into the private sector. Current Co-chair Milena Feustel was appointed as the new Chair and Steering Committee member Dmitrijs Kots was appointed as new Co-chair. Congratulations to Milena and Dmitrijs 👏

Below are also some photos of the event in the wonderful venue graciously provided by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport. If you have any questions or comments about the General Assembly meeting then please write to admin@eubim.eu.