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Q&A with Shobhit Baadkar


TITAN AEC CEO Shares Insights on How Technology is Disrupting the AEC Industry BY CAROL EATON


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TITAN AEC provided BIM services for LAX – ConRAC project. Photo courtesy PGAL Architects, AC Martin and PCL Construction.


ver the past two decades or so, rapid changes in Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) tools


and technologies, including higher levels of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and, more recently, the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI), have disrupted how business is done in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) markets. This evolution in technology has helped boost productivity, quality, and, ultimately, the bottom line for AEC companies and the projects that they design and build. In California, there are plenty of ex-


perts to help owners and AEC companies optimize technology usage on their jobs. But arguably no one is more qualified – or possesses a deeper understanding of VDC technologies – than Shobhit Baadkar, founder, CEO and managing principal of Los Angeles-based TITAN AEC. Baadkar literally grew up learning


about AEC-related technologies and how to leverage them to benefit the industry.


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His dad, a mechanical design engineer for a Central California-based hydraulic pump and water filtration equipment manufacturing company, brought his son into work for early AutoCAD training when Baadkar was just a child in the 1980s. He quickly migrated to the front row and never shied away from asking questions of the instructor. At 18, Baadkar built a website for an


Autodesk reseller business, then went to work for that company while earning his bachelor’s in economics from UC Irvine. After college, he joined Central Visual Information Systems, Inc. (CVIS), a technology services and


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