Transitioning your AutoCAD/Civil 3D projects to the Autodesk Forma platform can seem overwhelming, especially for small to mid-sized companies. In this case study, we’ll explore how Crozier Consultant Engineers successfully migrated both new and existing projects to Autodesk Forma (Forma Data Management, Forma Design Collaboration). For many companies, shifting from a Windows-based file system to Forma Data Management is a relatively new experience. We'll examine the benefits of working in a cloud environment, and the challenges of moving existing projects to the cloud. Additionally, we'll explore best practices for this transition and the tools that can facilitate the process.

When implementing new technology, an assured way to miss buy-in across your organization is to sign team members up and say, "Good luck!” Training is the obvious answer to this problem. However, designing, implementing, and executing a training program is a heavy lift, and justifying the commitment is paramount. To do so, it's vital to measure success through data: Locations and geos trained, project value in geographic area, and, of course, the number of individuals trained. The value of training doesn't end there. Our program instills our companywide vision of doing business. It deepens relationships with Autodesk, creating a partnership that tackles our big issues together. These relationships directly guide feature developments at Autodesk. At this session, learn from Ryan Riley, virtual design and construction (VDC) manager at Barton Malow Builders (BMB), on how he developed the ACC Roadshow Training Program at BMB across 16 offices, and 10 states, while tackling extremely local, specific problems.

Sustainability and cost efficiency for residential building is more important than ever. We will present with our customer Haas an integrated workflow from the configurator, an automated detailed design process in Revit to fabrication and the construction site. This digital process allows prospects to visually configure and calculate any residential or family timber house. These visualization of the customer's request via the house configurator leads to a faster and high-quality discussion with the customer. Seamless transition from configuration to design in Autodesk Revit ensures that no extra detail design work must be carried out manually. That model is transferred into the fabrication process and finally all data is leveraged via BIM360/ACC BUILD on construction sites for project and quality management and daily logs.

For years, Topcon has been at the forefront of automating blade control and machine control systems. Today, we are integrating and automating traditional manual workflows to enhance project controls. These innovations are made accessible through intuitive dashboards, providing valuable project insights. Construction companies utilize multiple technology tools for project delivery efficiency. These tools focus on executing tasks and are not easily integrated into an overall project technology ecosystem, creating manual data management and project inefficiencies. Today, a new environment of open APIs has changed how data can be exchanged utilizing automation. Join industry experts that will share their experiences and perspectives on the common field-to-office exchanges, emphasizing heavy civil construction, connecting updated schedules and designs with machines through automated workflows.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a nation known for its architectural marvels and ambitious projects, is facing a crucial turning point. Sustainability is becoming a top priority as the country strives to reduce its environmental impact and build a greener future. Learn how a construction giant leads the charge by embracing ACC as it's common data environment for document management, filed processes and quality control to achieve this goal. This session explores how to leverage ACC platform, to go green and build more sustainable structures, it will help attendees build new skills, implement new workflows, and learn how to use ACC Docs and ACC Build products both downstream with their subcontractors and upstream with clients and consultants.

This session will showcase how BHI implemented the Matterport and Autodesk Forma integration in a master planning project for a hospital in partnership with African Mission Healthcare (AMH) to transform its traditional construction workflows with the goal of enhancing collaboration, productivity, project management, and sustainability throughout the lifecycle of development. From capturing detailed 3D scans with Matterport's digital-twin platform to streamlining documentation and issue tracking via Autodesk's robust construction project management solution, attendees will learn about the strategic advantages of this integration.

This session will explore the groundbreaking blockchain technology based on Autodesk Forma that unlocks today's unused construction data to the streamlined inspection process, boosting 20% of productivity aiming to alleviate labor shortages. This project has more than four dozen stakeholders and serves as a prime example of strong collaboration across the industry, contractors, technology startups, and academics. Features of our platform not only authenticate construction data but also ensure smooth integration of various data through device and applications, enabling the direct use of construction data as an integration platform as a service (iPaaS). A key element of our approach is the integration of design data because it is critical to ensure that the construction result meets the client's requirements. This key element is consistently achieved by using the API integration (Autodesk Platform Services) with Autodesk Forma.

Data-driven decision-making is crucial for project success, enabling informed choices and continuous improvement. Platforms like Assemble and Autodesk Forma (ACC) store valuable data that, when used effectively, can significantly enhance project outcomes. The Power BI connector facilitates seamless data collection and organization from these platforms, allowing for smooth transfer and integration into Power BI for visualization and analysis. Project teams can leverage these insights to optimize project progress by identifying areas for improvement and potential risks, enabling proactive issue prevention and resolution. This minimizes costs, delays, and quality problems. Additionally, retrospective data analysis allows learning from past successes and failures, leading to more informed decisions for future projects. This data-driven approach fosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement, resulting in increased competitiveness and client satisfaction.

In the post-pandemic era, organizations grapple with a dynamic workforce, making knowledge transfer a significant challenge. This fluidity necessitates that knowledge is not only stored effectively but also promptly retrievable when required, given the constant influx and outflow of personnel. Autodesk Forma, with its unlimited storage capability, is aptly serving as a robust knowledge vault for Sunway, enabling the firm to overcome this hurdle. The Autodesk Forma Files feature allows us to search keywords within contents, a strength we've capitalized on to maximize its utility. Today, we're pushing boundaries further by integrating Autodesk Forma with ChatGPT via OpenAI API. This integration embeds our files into vectors, forming the foundation for a Q&A system. This groundbreaking approach signifies a knowledge revolution, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and accessibility, regardless of workforce dynamics.

What if we could build a complex project right the first time without any errors? Join us for an insightful session delving into the impact of Engineering Grade AR™ in the construction industry. Discover how AR technology enables real-time issue detection and superior project controls, safeguarding projects from costly errors, clashes, and design deviations before they escalate. Over half of construction project owners face underperforming projects. This session will highlight the impact of AR in construction, with a focus placed on project controls. During the session, we'll dive into how issue detection integrates seamlessly with Autodesk Forma, streamlining collaboration between onsite teams and office personnel, allowing for precise task assignment and issue resolution. Attendees will learn how AR is being used to collect real-time project data through advanced 3D modeling, delivering up to 9X ROI on mission critical projects.

This lab will teach you the basics of Forma Connect and walk through an example of how to automate the transfer of files within Forma Data Management.

Nashville’s once-in-a-generation water plant upgrade is using cloud tools and virtual reality (VR) to set a new standard for how critical facilities are designed. The ambitious project fits a new modern plant into a complex campus, and, notably, will convert a beautiful 105-year-old filter building into an advanced treatment unit. It will not only establish a climate-resilient water supply for Nashville, but it will also honor the historic site with thoughtful architecture and achieve the highest standards in project Sustainable Design. The design was a multi-year collaborative effort between 10 firms. Autodesk Forma was the cornerstone, with Revit and Civil 3D models brought together daily in a federated Navisworks model. This talk will cover how the live model accessed through Resolve VR empowered all levels of owner staff to engage in project development in ways not otherwise possible—from O&M teams providing frequent detailed input to City officials quickly understanding the site in broad strokes.

At Autodesk, we build solutions that include everything from 3D design, to preconstruction, through build, and into project handover. Customers often use Forma in tandem with advanced construction software and hardware, as well as with everyday software tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Smartsheet, cloud-storage solutions, and data-analytics tools such as Microsoft Power BI. Automating the workflows and data passed through these disparate systems helps keep everyone working with the latest and greatest information, eliminating errors due to siloed data and making collaboration easier on a construction jobsite. This talk will focus on using Autodesk APIs and our integration platform-as-a-service—Forma Connect—to build custom workflows and to connect various technologies together to build a tech stack custom tailored to your needs.

The Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed Japanese rail line excels globally in safety, punctuality, and frequency. This project aims to transform infrastructure maintenance using BIM. Although Japan rail owners are adopting BIM, efforts remain siloed across teams and lack integrated optimization. Rail maintenance requires ongoing inspection, diagnosis, action, and documentation. Seamless data handover is essential to reducing lifecycle costs, but information often stays locked in noninteroperable systems. JR Central addressed this by piloting a common data environment and object library for embankments, following ISO 19650-based information management. Interoperability was ensured through openBIM standards such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), which unify object definitions and data formats. Revit and Autodesk Forma, powerful BIM tools, were also adopted to enhance authoring consistency and collaborative workflows. This initiative unlocks a new era in infrastructure maintenance—firmly grounded in interoperability.

NEXCO CENTRAL is a road management company constructing and managing highways in the central Japan area (total length: 2,183 km). Impeding challenges—aging highways and labor shortages in the construction industry—make the improvement on productivity at construction sites a high priority. In an attempt to tackle down the challenges, we started considering using BIM from 2017 to shift from analog data-centered to digitized-data-centered construction management. In 2020, we’d established standards necessary for BIM use and set a policy to embrace intelligent models in design and construction phases, ICT construction, and a common data environment (CDE). Based on this policy, BIM was finally applied to the design and construction phase from July 2025. In addition, we adopted Autodesk Forma to realize a CDE to streamline the legacy means of communication between multiple project stakeholders. In this session, you will gain insights and tips on how to realize an owner-led CDE.

Like most firms, Hazen is at times, unable to dictate which CM platform is used on every project. However, for the last several years we have an internal preferred solution that is not ACC Build. In late 2022 we began pilot testing Forma Build with the goal of the pilot being to determine whether we should begin integrating ACC Build going forward. If yes, should we use Forma Build on certain projects alongside our other platform, or should it replace that platform entirely? What we hope to gain from this pilot is identifying the feature and workflow differences between the two platforms, and whether Forma Build can provide an advantage in transferring our asset-ready intelligent models through construction and as-built into a digital twin / facility management product like Autodesk Tandem. This pilot project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2024, but we wanted to share our experiences so far and provide some insight into our findings.

BIM (Building Information Modeling) and virtual design and construction (VDC) managers often lead organizations through digital transformation, investigating the latest technology and exploring new ways to streamline and improve both business and project outcomes. Join us for a panel discussion with BIM/VDC managers from leading construction companies. We'll discuss strategies and best practices for getting the most out of collaborative, 2D and 3D quantification workflows.

With rising material costs and razor-thin margins, construction takeoff—including accurate material quantification and cost estimates—is essential to starting and executing jobs on budget and on time. Forma Takeoff, with centralized 2D and 3D takeoffs, allows estimating teams to update quantities in real time, using the most up-to-date design files. By connecting existing building information modeling (BIM) data, Forma Takeoff can reduce takeoff and estimating times by 25% or more, minimize the risk of missed quantities, and guarantee accurate data capture. In this technical instruction, Edwin Bailey (senior preconstruction technology manager at Skanska) will showcase the workflows, techniques, and best practices for using Forma Takeoff, with real-world examples from Skanska's Class A Montrose project in Houston, Texas, among other examples.

Performing quantity takeoff can be a time-consuming and laborious process, but it doesn't have to be. Many in the industry are still using desktop-based 2D takeoff solutions that lack the collaboration, standardization, and transparency that is essential to running a fine-tuned estimating team. Join this session to see how the pre-construction and estimating teams at Barton Malow, Windover Construction, and Huckabee are turning to Forma Takeoff—a cloud-based 2D/3D quantification solution—to improve collaboration, increase takeoff accuracy, and reduce takeoff time, ensuring everyone is working off the latest project documents. You'll see how leading general contractors use Forma Takeoff to tackle project challenges while quantifying project scope. Join this lively discussion to see real-life case studies and walk away knowing how you too can improve your takeoff processes and say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming workflows.