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Biography
Dana K. “Deke” Smith, FAIA Deke is the executive director of buildingSMART Alliance a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) to improve construction productivity through interoperability. He has a long history in the private and public sector with spatial information. He was the founder and former chair of the NIBS Facility Information Council, home of the US National Computer Aided Design (CAD) Standard and the National Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standard. He is a senior analyst with CYON Research, a senior analyst with the International Centre for Facilities and has his own information consulting firm. He participated in the beginnings of the NIBS Construction Criteria Base and on both American Institute of Architects (AIA) CAD Layering Guideline efforts as well as the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST)/ Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Uniformat II. He was the U.S. representative for facility related CAD to the International Standards Organization (ISO) in the 1990’s. He was a winner of the 1996 Federal 100 award, the 1997 NIBS Member Award recipient and was the 2006 CAD Society Leadership award winner. He is a registered architect in Virginia and was elected to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects in 2008. He has experience as a surveyor, assistant field engineer, facility designer, cost engineer, value engineer, life-cycle cost analyst, deputy CIO, and was the chief information technology (IT) architect for the DoD Business Transformation Agency’s modernization effort for installations and environmental issues before his retirement after 30 years with the DoD. |
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