Committee Members
Brian Renehan (Chairperson)
Brian is the Technical National Building Information Modelling (BIM) Manager with Cox Architects. Cox Architects is an award winning architectural group with 5 national offices. His role is in support and implementation of Revit and BIM nationally.
Brian has been using Autodesk software since 1995, and started to pick up Revit in 2006. He quickly had the vision to see it was the way forward from conventional 2D CAD. He has managed Revit jobs of over 75,000 m² and up to 320 million Australian Dollars. In 2008 Brian set up a Revit blog, RevitFix.blogspot.com, a site devoted to Revit tips, bugs and work arounds.
Brian is an Autodesk Revit 2010 certified professional.
Peter Goodman (Secretary)
Peter is the Autodesk Development Manager for the Victorian office of Waterman International Pty Ltd previously known as Waterman AHW (Vic) Pty Ltd. He has developed and maintained all Autodesk products for this Consulting Engineering Firm which covers Building Services, Structural, Civil and Vertical Transportation.
Peter's experience in Revit has been on the MEP platform mainly with some experience also in Structure and Architecture Platforms since the Launch of the Revit MEP 2008. Peter has spent some time in training others the MEP platform as well.
Peter sees that a representation of Revit MEP in a user group is needed as MEP is the newest of the Revit platforms and is often overlooked.
Franz Hein (Treasurer)
Franz is the Manager of Design Technology at Hayball, an award winning Melbourne practice of over 100 leading Architects and Designers. His role is to strategically develop the companies BIM capabilities whilst supporting staff across projects of varying complexity and scale. He enjoys the constant learning that comes with using a software package such as Revit and is happy to share his knowledge with others.
Michael Mettes (Committee Member)
Michael commenced his career in the Building Industry in 1979 and since that time has been involved in many facets within the building industry profession including running his own building company and is currently a practising Private Building Surveyor as well as a Building Designer.
Michael has also been involved in teaching of architectural design at Holmesglen TAFE as well as being an active member building design community, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors and a Fellow of the Building Designers Association of Victoria, including past executive member of the Building Designers Association of Victoria and past Chairman of the Professional Drafting and Design Group and immediate past Chairman of the Peninsula Building Practitioners Group.
He currently produces practice notes for the Building Designers Association of Victoria as well as for the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors.
Ben May (Committee Member)
Ben is the Technical Drafting Leader with Irwinconsult, a multi-discipline full service engineering firm with offices in Melbourne and Darwin. Irwinconsult were early adopters of Revit in Australia with commitment to documenting the New Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne a $1 Billion Project which commenced early documentation back in 2006, the structure is now and in fitout stage. Ben is responsible for the ongoing implementation & development of Revit Structure & MEP in
the office.
Bens background is a Structural Draftsman with over 10 years experience with early experience in 3D modelling of structures with various software packages. Ben continues to work on a broad range of projects with particular interest in multi-discipline collaboration projects.