Leif Granholm, Senior Vice President at Tekla, Finland visited the Design Innovation Research Centre. He has been involved with the development of BIM related software since 1979, when he joined Tekla as Programmer, then IT Manager, Sales Representative, Senior Consultant, Technology Director and Director for both Public Infra and Energy/Utilities Business Areas. He has also worked as Managing Director for the Swedish Subsidiary and been responsible for Tekla’s construction industry business in the Nordic and the Baltic countries. Leif also participates in the planning of Tekla’s BIM strategy, implementation and support. He is Tekla’s strategic level representative in Building SMART and also serves as Trimble corp:s representative in OGC, building SMART alliance and a number of ISO committees.

Leif Granholm met with those staff and students at the University of Reading whose research area is related to BIM and made a presentation on DRUM research project dealing with distributed information management in BIM, and web based BIM.