Ralph Montague is managing partner of ArcDox, a specialist BIM (Building Information Modelling) consultancy practice based in Dublin, Ireland, providing professionally managed advice, production, support and training services to the construction industry. A registered architect with over 20 years’ experience in managing large projects, Ralph endorses BIM as a more cost effective and highly efficient way of managing design, construction documentation and improving the building process. Ralph is a member of the National BIM Council of Ireland. As Chairman of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) practice sub-committee for BIM, and coordinator of the Construction IT Alliance (CITA) BIM Group, Ralph has been instrumental in leading the development and adoption of BIM in Ireland since 2009. More recently, Ralph has been representing the RIAI on the Architects Council of Europe (ACE) BIM Working Group. He is also the chair of the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Technical Mirror Committee on BIM, monitoring the European Committee for Standardization (CEN TC442) technical committee on BIM standards. Ralph is also a part-time lecturer at Trinity College Dublin School of Engineering Post-Graduate Diploma in Project Management.