23 Accelerating BIM adoption

David Philp is Chief Value Officer at Cohesive Group. With over 30 years in industry, David is a Chartered Construction Manager by background. He has previously worked with Balfour Beatty, Mace and AECOM. As CVO he is responsible for driving customer-centricity and creating sustainable value for clients across their asset lifecycle and portfolios. David has been involved in delivering innovative projects, digital change strategies and digital asset management strategies across the globe.

He was seconded in the UK Cabinet Office in 2011 as Head of BIM Implementation and has been a key contributor to the UK public sector BIM mandate. He was also Chair of the Scottish BIM Delivery Group through the Scottish Futures Trust delivering the BIM requirements of the Scottish Government. David is Co-Vice Chair of BE-ST.

Carolina Soto is the Executive Director of Planbim_Corfo, a program of the Chilean government. Since Planbim’s inception in 2015, she has led this initiative which aims to foster the digital transformation of the AEC industry at a country level. In addition, she was Chair of the Latin American BIM Governments Network from 2019 to 2022, and is currently a partner at Factor Digital, a consulting firm focused on Digital Transformation. She is an architect from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and holds a Master of Science degree in Design and Computation from MIT.