He’s often called Autodesk’s thought-leader, a futurist about global construction trends, a big ideas man, probably unfailingly polite and, as of late, a construction science fiction author. (See ENR's Imagining Construction's Future collection.)
Dominic Thasarathar, a directory of strategy at the design and collaboration software provider, would chuckle at the titles, given that the Londoner still thinks of himself as a technology manager from his days with firms such as CH2M Hill and Bechtel. Amid the goings-on at Autodesk University, the annual user conference that attracted over 10,000 users to The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas in early December, ENR sat down with Thasarathar to talk about some of the buzzwords of technology. Following is an edited transcript as he broke down some of the big trends through the filter of construction.