Dr. Will Ikerd, PE, PhD is Director of Research and Education at the forums of BIMForum Global (BIMForum.Global) & VDCForum (VDCForum.org) an organization that focuses on the intersection of people, process and technology in the build environment. The forums are part of the Ascend Building Knowledge Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit research and education foundation in the building industry that was founded in 2017. Visit BIMForum.global to learn more about VDC and Ascends work, research and education content.

Dr. IKERD is principal at IKERD, a firm that specializes in consulting for attorneys, owners, architects, engineers, general contractors, and trade contractors. The firm’s practice areas of expertise are engineering, Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), construction grade models, Reality Capture with Laser Scanning to BIM on both new and renovation projects and digital robotic site layout. Dr. Ikerd also serves as an expert witness in design and construction litigation cases involving BIM and VDC processes. He has won the “Best Speaker” award two years in a row from the International Structures Congress, Structural Engineering Magazine’s “Top 10 Leaders in Structural Engineering”, Glass Magazine’s “Top 30 under 40”, and Building Design & Construction’s “Top 40 Under 40”.

He graduated with his bachelor’s in civil engineering and master's in structural engineering in the mid-nineties from Washington University in St. Louis (WUStL) with a focus on 3D parametric modeling. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Denver (DU) with research in the area of scan-to-BIM, Level of Development (LOD), and Level of Acceptance (LOA) in building applications. He has also completed post-graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in data analytics and AI, as well as current post-graduate work at Boston Architectural College.

He likes spending time with family doing hiking, sporting clays, photography, reading, history, woodworking and traveling.