EP 02417 October 2025 · 54 min
Revit Rookie to Digital Leader: Jon Arnott's Path to Adeptus
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Revit Rookie to Digital Leader: Jon Arnott's Path to Adeptus
BIM did not arrive neatly. For many practices, it was messy, resisted and learned by people willing to get uncomfortable with new tools before everyone else had caught up.
Stephen Drew speaks with Jon Arnott about going from Revit rookie to digital leader, building BIM capability, launching Adeptus Digital and thinking about the next wave of AI-led change in architecture and construction.
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How Jon moved from traditional practice into BIM and digital leadership
Why implementation is as much about people as software
What it takes to move from employee to consultant and business owner
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Hello everyone and welcome to the architecture social. So I'm gonna. Go back in time for a second. So in 2014, my directors, they pulled me into a meeting room. They pulled me away from MicroStation and they said, Steve, we are sending you on a training course for something we're gonna implement in the practice called bim.
And I went, what the heck is that? But I'll take a day off. Fast forward 11 years, we're all starting to use Revit. We're all doing all this stuff. And I want to talk about the world of tech, the world of bim, and learn a little bit from someone that's not only used it, but set it up in practices and also set it up in these digital agencies and is now got this amazing consultancy.
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