Ignasi Pérez Arnal

Full Name: Ignasi Pérez Arnal
Job title: Director
Organisation Name: REBUILD Congress
Country: Spain


Short bio

Founding partner of BIM Academy -training compan dedicated to the transformation of professional profiles in the AECO sector related to the Construction 4.0-BIM/Lean/IPD/SDG/Offsite concept, and consultancy dedicated to the experiential implementation of BIM in institutions and companies-.

Content Director of the European BIM Summit since its creation. It belongs to the Building the Future Commission (CCF) sponsored by ITeC, buildingSMART Spain, GUBIMCAT, GBCe-GreenBuilding Council Spain, eg-ice / European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering, European Council on Computing in Construction, Blockchain Catalonia, Iniciativa Barcelona Open Data, BIM Supporters, DigiPLACE-European Digital Platform for Construction…

He has been a speaker at EUBIM, GeoBIM (Netherlands), EDUBIM (France), EU of Valencia, UVCE of Bangalore, Construction Labor Foundation, EBS, BILT (Australia), Healthcare Summit / Smart Cities Expo (India), TRAINEE conferences (North Macedonia), HablemosBIM (Venezuela) AAA-Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero (Italy), Unipiloto (Colombia), ISEP (Portugal)… He is the Director of various academic and professional programs such as the Executive BIM Program for Owners and Developers; the Smart Cities master’s degree with the École des Ingenieurs de la Ville de Paris, the Master’s degree in Construction Project Management at UB, the BIM Specialization Program in Innovative Construction Management from INESA, the BIM master’s degree in Civil Engineering at University of Barcelona. He is also “Senior Visiting Professor” of the Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione (Progettazione Territoriale Urbana Ambientale-PTUA) of the Università degli Studi di Sassari.

Founder of IBIMA-India BIM Association with more than 40,000 members, he has participated in various consultancies at national level: Pye (Great Britain) in the study on “Change of Building skills and profiles” in 2016, with KYU Lab Associés (Paris, France) in the study “Benchmark on foreign educational initiatives towards BIM training” in 2017 for the Plan Transition Numérique dans le Bâtiment PTNB, etc.