Melanie Lavoie
Senior VDC Project Lead Southland Industries
Melanie Lavoie is Senior VDC Project Lead at Southland Industries, with previous experience at Tesla. Her background brings together construction technology, virtual coordination and team leadership across different project environments. Melanie has shared her experience of adapting to new organizations and developing as a leader, alongside an interest in tools that improve day-to-day work. She contributes a VDC perspective to the relationship between modeling decisions and construction delivery.
Seminars
Wednesday 24th February 2027
Fireside Chat: Bridging the Gap Between Connected BIM Technology & Connected Teams to Eliminate Rework
1:00 pm
- Breaking down disconnects between engineering, detailing and fabrication teams to establish shared ownership of the end-to-end workflow, reducing duplication of effort, and ensuring upstream design decisions support downstream production requirements
- Overcoming resistance to adopting fabrication-ready BIM tools and processes by identifying barriers to change, exploring effective training strategies, and challenging established engineering practices that create unnecessary rework
- Demonstrating the downstream impact of early design and modelling decisions, from the use of generic Revit families versus MEP fabrication components to the quality of data transferred into fabrication, to build greater understanding and buy-in across teams
