Bricks And Bytes LIVE at SpeckleCon 2025 - Bricks & Bytes - Full Stream
Nov 11, 2025
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Murat Melek (Suffolk Construction)
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David Morgan (Suffolk Construction)
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Aram Martinez (Pomelo/Pomerlau)
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Virginia (Speckle)
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Dimitri (Speckle)
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Oliver Thomas
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Morten (Multiconsult)
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Martin Day
Martin Day, a provocative AEC commentator, warns that data, not tools, is now the industry’s focus. Morten from Multiconsult shares insights on empowering engineers with Python for data-driven design. Oliver Thomas highlights how small firms may outpace giants in the AI revolution. Speckle's Dimitri and Virginia emphasize the platform's evolution to tackle data silos and promote transparency. Murat and David discuss transforming messy BIM data for streamlined workflows. The future hinges on visibility, flexibility, and adapting to AI's impact.
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GCs Leading The Data Charge
- General contractors are becoming the primary drivers of data infrastructure by funneling messy BIM into usable lakes.
- Suffolk uses Speckle to normalize models so downstream functions like estimating can programmatically consume data.
Automate Model-To-Estimate Transfers
- Stop copying and pasting between models and estimating tools; programmatically extract model data instead.
- Build pipelines that pull clean attributes from models into estimation software to avoid manual handoffs.
Fine-Tune LLMs With Synthetic Data
- Avoid relying on off-the-shelf LLMs for AEC tasks without fine-tuning on domain data.
- Generate synthetic data and iteratively fine-tune models to reach usable performance for construction workflows.