BRIDGING THE GAP

ENGINEERING AND DESIGNING OF BUILDING PRODUCTS AND FABRICATION HAVE TO ADAPT TO THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE WITH INCREASING CUSTOMISATION

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REENGINEERING & REDESIGNING BUILDING PRODUCTS AND FABRICATION FOR THE FUTURE

RECENT SURVEYS WITH ARCHITECTS INDICATE that highly collaborative relationships between key stakeholders and being BIM compliant are very critical to a project’s success. Since the manufactured products provided by companies in the building products industry play a significant role, a higher degree of collaboration is required to plan and evaluate that experience prior to construction.

In the backdrop of this, Manufacturing Today in association with Autodesk had organised an exclusive virtual panel discussion titled, ‘Reengineering & Redesigning Building Products & Fabrications for the Future’ on 8th Sept, 2021.

Among the experts in the panel were Ravishankar N, Director Engineering, OTIS; Santosh Jagtap, Director Large Strategic Projects, Johnson Controls; Manoj Arora, Head Projects, Jindal Steel; Ganesh Jirkuntwar, Head Manufacturing Dalmia Cement (Bharat); Nagaraj Loganathan, VP Manufacturing, Bonfiglioli; K V Veerapandian, Head Technical (D&M) India & SAARC, Autodesk. The panel discussion was moderated by Sudeep Kolte, VP, S&M, Saint Gobain India, Gyproc.

The panel discussion was preceded by a presentation by Keerti Malavooru who is a Sr. Technical Sales Specialist at Autodesk with the Design & Manufacturing Solution group.

“In the last couple of years, we have seen a lot of industries, owners as well as governments, making adoption of BIM a mandate,” said Malavooru, referring to the Building Information Model (BIM); a process that comprises of creating an intelligent 3D design model, creating its digital representation and then extracting and sharing it across networks for decision making.