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How did they do it without BIM?

Kuressaare Episcopal Castle has stood for more than 600 years. Ask yourself: how did medieval builders plan such massive dolomite walls with no computers, no 3D models, no digital drawings? Who held the plan for the whole project in their head? How were stone, timber, people and time managed, and how did they know everything would fit together?

Perhaps the master builder carried the whole castle in his mind, the way a BIM model does today: every wall, every opening, every stone in its place.

How will we build today and tomorrow?

Six centuries later we're asking the same questions, with new tools.
In April, Kuressaare becomes a meeting point for vocational students, teachers and construction entrepreneurs from across Europe. Together we'll explore how building information modelling is changing construction: from the first digital model to the building site, from planning to sustainable, well-managed construction.

Expect inspiring talks, live demonstrations and lots of hands-on work, because the best way to understand BIM is to try it yourself. And when you walk past the castle walls in the evening, you may see them differently: as one of the finest construction projects ever, built without a single line of code.

Speakers and workshop leaders.

Andrea Negri, lecturer from Italy, leads the week's BIM lectures and live demonstrations. He'll show how a building model is made and used in practice, from Revit to IFC, to the building site and the workshop.

Heiko Kull, a vocational teacher of engineering trades, runs the practical workshops. With him, the model turns into real work, from reading the drawings to the finished build. 

Where the old world meets the new. And Saaremaa? It's the perfect setting to see where tradition and innovation meet.

Programme, registration and media contact coming soon...