Brad Workman Twenty-First Century Chair in Integrated Practice B. Arch., University of Arkansas beworkma@uark.edu 479/444-7089

In his role as the first Twenty-First Century Chair in Integrated Practice, Brad Workman will assist school leaders and faculty to determine how the School of Architecture may best prepare students for building information modeling and other new technologies that are transforming building design and construction.

An architect and software designer who currently serves as vice president of building and plant solutions for software firm Bentley Systems Inc., Workman has helped design, develop and pioneer building information modeling. Born and raised in Arkansas, he earned his bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Arkansas in 1978. He subsequently practiced architecture in Little Rock while pursuing a bachelor of science degree in computer science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 1983 he began training architects on the use of CAD software at Intergraph Corp. and has since devoted his career to software design and product line development. In 1994 Workman was among the first architects to join Bentley Systems Inc., located in Exton, Pa. There he was instrumental in developing their software solution for building information modeling. Recently he has taken on a more strategic role for Bentley, overseeing integrated solutions for automotive, airport, oil and gas, mining and other industries.

Workman has taken a national role in building support for integrated practice, serving on the buildingSMART task force for the National Institute of Building Sciences, as a special adviser to the documents committee of the American Institute of Architects, and serving on the architecture and engineering productivity subcommittee of the Construction Users Round Table.