Bjørn Stangeland

Bjørn K. Stangeland is a visionary leader passionate about open, trusted data exchange across disciplines, project phases and software throughout the built asset lifecycle. He is Director of Interoperability and Standards at the Nemetschek Group. He has worked with openBIM since its beginning and has spent more than 30 years turning open standards into everyday practice in the building industry. He is a member of the Board of Directors of buildingSMART International and sits on its Technical Domain Steering Committee and Standards Committee Technical Executives (SCTE). He is also a board member of the Open Design Alliance (ODA). He studied computer science and began his career as a software developer when Data Design System (DDS) was founded in 1984. Over almost four decades at DDS, he served as product manager, CTO and, from 2000 to 2022, CEO. Under his leadership, DDS-CAD became a well-known openBIM solution for MEP (building services) engineering and an early adopter of each new IFC