Women in BIM

Penny Locaso is the world’s first Happiness Hacker on a quest to teach 10 million humans by 2025 how to flourish in life.
Voted one of the most influential female entrepreneurs in Australia, Penny is her own ongoing experiment. A little while back she turned her life upside down in pursuit of happiness.
She left a 16 career as an executive, relocated her family from Perth back to Melbourne, left an 18 year relationship and started her own purpose-driven company, HackingHappy.co.
Listen as Penny talks to Women in BIM Founder Rebecca De Cicco about life, happiness and empowerment for women all over the world.
This discussion touches on not only female empowerment, but how women can perceive themselves and ways we can tackle the imposter syndrome we all sometimes feel and face in our every day lives.

Women in BIM invited Laura Gouk of OMI Architects to tell us why she is championing the use of Vectorworks in her practice and how she has become the practice lead for implementing her go-to BIM software.
Laura talks with WIB Global Executive Team Member, Henry Fenby-Taylor about their level of design standards at OMI and shares lessons learned on some of her major projects.

Collaboration was the buzz word between WIB Global Vice Chair Marie Grieve and her podcast guest, Stefania Correa, BIM and Agile Manager for Concremat in Brazil.

An experienced engineer with a passion for digital ways of working and a specialism in infrastructure, Stefania shares her career journey to date, how her roles have taken her throughout Brazil and South America, and the current state of BIM adoption in the region.

Tune in to this enlightening conversation as Marie and Stefania share wisdom, inspiration, and practical guidance to help you navigate the BIM environment in Brazil, for which Stefania admits the adoption level is good, but there is room for improvement!

After a life changing accident and a subsequent cancer diagnosis, Shona Hirons realised she needed to slow down in her career and that by taking small steps she could make a big impact, not only on her own life but on those around her.

Now an international behavioural therapist, Shona shares with WIB Global Vice Chair, Marie Grieve, her life story, the bumps along the way and why prioritising our mental health is so important. For Shona, her aim is to simply make people feel everyday. This is an inspiring conversation that will make you want to get out of your chair!

With a passion for sustainability from a very young age Lucy Lyons, CEO of Kestrix - a new and innovative construction software that maps how heat escapes from buildings – has always questioned why, as an industry, construction isn’t better a decarbonisation. In this podcast with Women in BIM Global Vice Chair, Marie Grieve, Lucy shares her long-term passion and why this is the foundation upon which she has built Kestrix.
Born from a need to support the sustainable retrofit of aging housing stock to improve the way we live, particularly in an age when fuel poverty is a colossal issue, Lucy knows that huge steps must be taken to improve this for so many of us – and she is ready to take these steps!
The actions of individuals are important, but we can’t take action to decarbonise construction alone, we must unite to take on the fight as a collective! And the best weapon to ready ourselves for this fight is data.