Allister Lewis is an Architect, BIM Manager and the founder of Automated Data Driven Design (www.addd.io). Allister is a specialist in new Construction Technology (ConTech) software for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). He is a passionate advocate of digital tools in the construction industry and the opportunity that this offers to be better, faster, and more profitable. Allister is working on the ADDD Marketplace which will be the central resource for AEC ConTech software in the future. The vision for this is to provide seamless access to all ConTech software through a digital marketplace.
At NXT DEV 2023, Aaron Perry of AHMM Architects, talking on behalf of a collective of medium-to-large AEC firms, gave a masterful presentation on the ‘Future Design Software Specification’.
The specification document lays out what the AEC industry wants from its future design tools, covering everything from data framework, context and scale, responsible design, and modular construction, to user experience, modelling capabilities, automation, intelligence, deliverables and more.
This year, Andy Watts, director of design technology at Grimshaw, will give an update on the specification and then hand over to Allister Lewis, ADDD, to talk about benchmarking software against the specification.
