Leif Granholm
Senior Vice President
Tekla
Finland

Biography
Leif 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. Currently he is Trimble corp:s representative in OGC, BuildingSMART, buildingSMART alliance and a number of ISO committees. Leif works to advance open flow of standard semantic information in construction and geospatial industries.

Abstract
Open Standards for GeoSpatial and BIM Data, How are They Developed and What is Their Role in Building and Operating Built Environment

Rapid urbanization and the Smart Cities concept is putting high pressure on developers of built environment around the globe. Urban planning will become a more important exercise with several organizations and inhabitants participating. Two big paradigm shifts are affecting this simultaneously, all kinds of construction is rapidly becoming international and using high technology is becoming ubiquitous both in construction and operation of the built environment. Both mean that creating and managing information is becoming more and more important and in the presentation I will outline how open standards are going to be very crucial in this development. The presentation will give an insight both into how those standards are developed and what their impact will be.