A podcast about digital technologies for the Construction Industry.
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Why Clashes Exist in BIM At All with Rubens Lage Lopes
Clash detection is a symptom, not a fix. Inside BIM coordination rules, ISO 19650 in the real world, and AI that turns clashes into cost.
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Host: Andrea Ciaffi https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ciaffi/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ciaffi/)
Guest: Rubens Lage Lopes https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenslage/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenslage/ )
Walk into any occupied building with an exposed ceiling and you will find zero clashes. Open the model of that same building and you will find thousands. Physics stops two objects occupying the same space, but our software does not, and the industry has quietly accepted that as normal for thirty years.
Rubens Lage Lopes, BIM Information Manager at the Grangegorman Development Agency, has spent more than twenty years in construction across Brazil and Ireland, and now sits on the client side of one of the largest campus redevelopments in Dublin. The conversation starts from a question he posted on LinkedIn, why clashes exist in BIM at all, and follows it into coordination, information management and where AI genuinely earns its place.
Rubens makes the case that coordination is a consequence of the information agreed before anyone models anything, and that the procurement route shapes the outcome long before the first clash appears.
Useful listening for anyone tired of chasing clashes they could have prevented.
00:00 – Intro
03:43 – When information management clicked
06:19 – Coordination is people, not software
09:21 – Why clashes exist in BIM at all
13:57 – Coordination rules enforced inside Revit
17:45 – Information management on a long-term campus
20:21 – ISO 19650 in practice
22:23 – Where AI actually helps BIM
25:04 – Translating clashes into cost exposure
32:13 – Advice for young BIM professionals
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24 Sept 2026
Augmented Reality for Utility Projects with Alec Pestov
Centimetre-accurate Augmented Reality, digital twins and construction AI that crews actually use. Why sometimes field software fails and what makes it work outdoors.
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Episode notes: https://digitalconstructionpodcast.com/episode/augmented-reality-for-utility-projects-with-alec-pestov (https://digitalconstructionpodcast.com/episode/augmented-reality-for-utility-projects-with-alec-pestov)
Host: Andrea Ciaffi https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ciaffi-548413113 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ciaffi-548413113)
Guest: Alec Pestov https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-pestov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-pestov)
Augmented reality was supposed to change construction a decade ago. Somewhere at the bottom of that hype cycle, a small group of companies quietly worked out where the technology actually pays off and it turned out to be outside the building, in the trench, next to the utilities nobody can see.
Alec Pestov is the founder and CEO of vGIS, the company behind vSite, software that lets field crews see underground infrastructure with centimetre-level accuracy. Alec came from strategy consulting, not utilities, and started the company by his own admission the wrong way round: building interesting technology first and searching for a problem afterwards. This conversation traces what he learned correcting that mistake.
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:50 – Founding vGIS the wrong way round
00:08:10 – What vSite actually does
00:09:35 – Paper users, power users, centimetre AR
00:15:01 – Why indoor AR doesn't work
00:19:08 – How this differs from Dial Before You Dig
00:23:53 – The risk of spray paint records
00:26:44 – Designing software field crews trust
00:32:35 – Where AI actually helps on site
00:38:04 – AR's hype cycle and the next decade
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11 Sept 2026
Cintoo, the Netflix for 3D Data with Dominique Pouliquen
There's no magic scan-to-BIM button. This episode covers reality capture, digital twins and where AI actually helps turn scans into decisions.
Reality capture has quietly moved from a specialist niche to something running behind thousands of construction projects. Yet most teams still struggle to answer a deceptively simple question: does what we actually built match what we designed? Getting that answer fast, and sharing it with everyone who needs it, turns out to be where the real money is won or lost.
In this episode, Dominique Pouliquen, co-founder and CEO of Cintoo, traces the path from selling his first company to build a platform that streams massive point clouds into any web browser. The conversation is a rare look inside how a category-defining product actually gets made.
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Episodes: https://digitalconstructionpodcast.com/episodes (https://digitalconstructionpodcast.com/episodes)
Episode notes: https://digitalconstructionpodcast.com/episode/cintoo-the-netflix-for-3d-data-with-dominique-pouliquen (https://digitalconstructionpodcast.com/episode/cintoo-the-netflix-for-3d-data-with-dominique-pouliquen)
Host: Andrea Ciaffi https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ciaffi-548413113 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ciaffi-548413113)
Guest: Dominique Pouliquen https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominique-pouliquen-92715/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominique-pouliquen-92715/)
00:00 – Intro
00:02:50 – Leaving Autodesk to co-found Cintoo
00:07:15 – Betting the industry needed a cloud platform
00:09:45 – Turning point clouds into streamable 3D
00:12:50 – Pricing on data, not users
00:16:55 – Showing 3D data to non-specialists
00:22:10 – Catching costly errors before they escalate
00:30:25 – Rethinking what a digital twin is
00:35:05 – What AI can and can't do yet
00:40:15 – The future of reality capture
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