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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Zero to Build-Ready: How We Automated Project Setup with Autodesk Forma Templates

One click of “Create Project” in Autodesk Forma, and, like magic, folders auto-populate, design workflows activate, and dashboards light up—all before you can even finish brewing your coffee. Join us to unpack how our virtual design and construction (VDC) and design teams built an Autodesk Forma template that cuts setup from weeks to hours. Learn how we preconfigured Modeling rules (clash detection on the cloud!), embedded structured folders, and auto-populated Assets settings. We’ll demo how designers now sync Revit models to Autodesk Forma sheets with one click, while on-site teams track steel installations via prebuilt Assets dashboards with no Python PhD required. “This way, teams can focus on the important aspects of designing,” says our lead design manager. Discover how Autodesk Forma templates auto-invite team members, assign permissions, and deploy build settings, not admin work. This is perfect for general contractors, VDC pros, and design managers expecting to leave with actionable steps to replicate our framework.

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38p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Forma Road Map: Preconstruction

Investing in preconstruction is one of the most impactful ways to de-risk and set your project up for long-term success. Join this dynamic session with the Autodesk Preconstruction Product team to explore what’s new and what’s coming next for BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Forma Takeoff, and ProEst software. You’ll get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at our product strategy, major initiatives on the horizon, and the customer feedback that’s shaping our future. Bring your voice to the table and help influence the evolution of our preconstruction offerings. Whether you're a power user or just getting started, you won’t want to miss this session!

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Head in the Cloud and Boots on the Ground 2.0: Enhancing Communication by Deploying 3D Models to the Field with Forma

Last year we explored “easy wins”—how to break down the technical and cultural barriers preventing site teams from accessing and using digital project information. What’s next? This session will pick up where we left off, showcasing how Hansen Yuncken has evolved its approach to fully integrate Autodesk Forma into daily site operations, ensuring the right people have the data they need when they need it. Meaningful use of models during construction continues to be a significant challenge for us as an industry hooked on PDFs and spreadsheets. This year, we’ll dive deeper into the use of 3D model information in the field to connect and visualize data from Autodesk Forma. Considering how the model can be used for more than just “viewing,” we’ll explore curating models for specific tasks such as progress tracking, installation, sequencing, and more. Let’s get creative, challenge perceptions around how construction information is communicated, and start developing the construction workforce of the future!

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Configure - Plan - Fabricate -Build | Sustainable Fabrication Workflows for Timber Buildings

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.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Advanced Bridging in Autodesk Forma

As a virtual design and construction (VDC) manager for a general contractor (GC), one of the largest headaches is making sure your subcontractors get their models uploaded to your Autodesk Forma hub on time, and that they're named correctly and in the right format to make Model Coordination work seamlessly. What if it didn't have to be that way? If your subcontractors also happened to be working in Autodesk Forma, it doesn't have to be. What if they just published their own models internally and all the sharing happened automatically? This class will cover how to use the Bridge tool in Autodesk Forma to enable automatic sharing of models between Autodesk Forma hubs to streamline model coordination. Not only will we cover how to share models from the subcontractor's hub to the GC hub and then on into your coordination NWF, but we'll also show you how to share models from one subcontractor to another to enable direct coordination between subcontractor Revit models.

Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024

Streamlining Clash Detection: Using Navisworks Integration with Forma Model Coordination

The Navisworks integration with Autodesk Forma Model Coordination fosters collaboration among multiple stakeholders in a shared environment. It enables teams to allocate clashes to respective teams and flag them in authoring software for prompt resolution. Conventional clash detection workflows encounter challenges like nonstreamlined processes and prolonged procedures, as well as an absence of a shared collaborative environment, a need to sift through lengthy clash reports, inadequate documentation, and a lack of methods to assign clashes. Integrating Navisworks with Model Coordination offers a streamlined workflow and a closed-loop clash management system, and it provides comprehensive documentation and enhances coordination, productivity, and efficiency. In this lab, you'll learn to use the Model Coordination API in Navisworks for clash detection, and use the Issues add-in in Revit software for issue management and clash location, ensuring seamless coordination. Overcome your challenges and capitalize on the power of Autodesk tools.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Putting Precon First in Autodesk Forma Projects: A Hands-On Lab

What comes before any successful construction project? An accurate estimate is a good place to start. You have a lot to gain from a standardized pre-con environment in Autodesk Forma, from the first schematic drawings brought into Forma Data Management software then quantified in Forma Takeoff software. In this hands-on lab, you’ll gain firsthand experience in quantifying a new project’s design the right way. What we'll give you: Step 1: A standard project template will offer your team a playbook to follow for Management. Step 2: Typical items you need are present for you to quantify on the new project. What you’ll do: Step 3: (This is the hands-on part.) In accessible interactive activities, you’ll apply advanced 2D and 3D quantification tools. You’ll translate project scope into material, labor, and equipment costs to generate an accurate project estimate. Come work with us to experience the value Autodesk Forma can bring to your pre-con workflows.

19p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

UAE Construction Giant goes Green with Forma Build on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah

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.

37p

Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024

Preconstruction Lab: Estimating in ProEst Using Historic Data from Forma Cost Management

Got cost data from your active construction projects? Join us for an experience designed to demonstrate one of many ways to put it to work using Autodesk construction products. We have created for you in this hands-on lab a database of historic unit costs harvested from "your" Autodesk Forma Cost Management instance. Using ProEst, each attendee will be guided through use of the basic tools needed to build their first estimate. Lastly, each estimator will learn how their estimate can be sent over to Autodesk Forma Cost Management following award of their contract.

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Meetup / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Forma Administrators Meetup

Are you an Autodesk Forma (Forma) administrator, manager or user? Join Autodesk Forma Administrators Meetup! You’ll dive into candid conversations, share real-world experiences, and explore forward-thinking ideas that are shaping the future of construction technology whether that is Docs, Build, Design Collaboration, Cost Management, etc. This meetup is designed to share insights, as well as discuss best practices and exchange strategies for all things Forma. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, grow, and connect with your peers of Forma.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Revolutionizing Project Management: How India’s Largest EPC Uses 5D BIM Dashboards and Forma for Connected Workflows

This case study highlights the deployment of a 5D BIM Power BI dashboard on an airport project valued at $420 million. Developed by L&T Construction—India’s largest engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm—the dashboard integrated Revit software and Autodesk Forma to streamline progress monitoring and billing. Tackling key challenges like complex stakeholder coordination and data fragmentation, the solution improved transparency, reduced manual errors, and sped up decision making. The integration of models, documents, and workflows in the cloud created a synchronized construction environment, enhancing cost control and governance. This digital-first approach minimized paper-based processes and resource redundancies, driving operational Sustainable Design. This case underscores the transformative power of connected construction, demonstrating how cloud-based platforms and BIM can foster efficiency, accountability, and environmental responsibility at scale.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Automating the Future with Build: Real-World Forma Applications on Dubai’s $2 billion mega exhibition facility & Palm Jumeriah

Discover how cutting-edge construction technology is transforming project delivery in the Middle East. This session will highlight the role of Autodesk Forma (ACC) in streamlining data collection, enhancing transparency, and improving collaboration and analysis on site. Gain insights into how Khansaheb Civil Engineering a leading UAE construction company is leveraging Automation, Integration, & Customization between CDEs on a $2 billion mega exhibition facility in Dubai and explore how data from its Palm Jumeirah projects is powering customized, automated dashboards, reports, and registers; tailored for both internal teams and external stakeholders. Join us to learn practical strategies for using Power BI to align ACC-extracted data to overcome coordination bottlenecks, address operational challenges, and maintain clear, current, and concise reporting without the need for manual input.

54p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Project Delivery at Scale: Leveraging Forma, APS and Smart Workflows for Megaproject Success

What does it take to successfully deliver a mega project with thousands of models, multiple stakeholders and complex coordination needs? Drawing from AtkinsRéalis’ extensive experience in delivering large-scale frameworks, this session offers proven strategies for managing Project Delivery at scale. Learn to develop a robust digital strategy for mega projects, from standardized project environment setup and information exchange frameworks to multidisciplinary coordination workflows. Explore how Autodesk Forma (ACC), Autodesk Platform Services (APS), ACC Connect, Data Exchange and the Autodesk Validation Tool (AVT) enable seamless collaboration, streamline design review and synchronize project-wide data for quality assurance, coordination, construction (4D), costing (5D) and carbon analytics (6D). Gain practical insights into managing multi-level collaboration and walk away with actionable strategies for implementing data driven solutions in complex, large-scale projects.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Data Exchange and Issues in Forma: Connecting Risk, Change, QTO, and Carbon Insights in One Smart Workflow

This session will uncover how Autodesk Forma can transform issue management into a connected process for handling risk, value engineering, and scope control. By using the Autodesk Forma Issues tool alongside references, forms, and documentation, teams can structure requests for change (RFCs), flag project risks, and capture value opportunities. Paired with Autodesk Forma Data Exchange and Power BI, issue data becomes a strategic resource for visualizing scope creep, managing QTOs from 2D/3D applied to linear infrastructures and bridges through various file formats, carbon emission, and making informed decisions throughout the project lifecycle. The session will highlight how issue-centered workflows can drive clarity, reduce delays, and strengthen governance.

31p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Forma Roadmap: Admin, Standardization, & Analytics

Operational efficiency isn’t just about doing things faster, it’s about doing them smarter and better. In this session, we’ll explore how the latest enhancements in Autodesk Forma are empowering teams to deliver consistent results and transform project data into actionable insights. We’ll cover what’s new and what’s coming next for tools like Project and Account Admin, Bridge, Library, Templates, Reports, Data Connector, Dashboards, the new Data Transition Tool, and more! You’ll get a behind the scenes look at our product strategy and major initiatives shaping the future of Administration, Standardization, and Analytics in Autodesk Forma. From setting your projects up for success to boosting efficiency, we’re building the tools you need to reduce complexity, and keep your projects on track. Whether you’re expanding your use of Forma or looking to optimize your processes, you won’t want to miss this session!

Meetup / Nashville 2025

The Big Room Community IRL Meetup

Autodesk's online space "The Big Room" is made up of 15,000+ AECO professionals in over 125 countries. This is your chance to meet each other IRL and shake hands with the peers you've been replying to and hearing from all these years! Not a part of The Big Room yet? No problem! Come by and meet fellow AECO industry colleagues that you can always continue conversations with online. Previous "Members of the Month" and Big Room Team members will be in attendance for you to share ideas for future activities and conversations you'd like to see happen. Come on by to help us make The Big Room bigger AND better!

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016

Building Ops: Cross-Platform Workflows for a Mobile Asset Management Solution

To date, created and collected asset data has been siloed within its respective native software, forcing users to extract information from each software and aggregate it to create a custom electronic deliverable. This is a very time-consuming manual process with inconsistent deliverables to owners. Cross-platform workflows in the Autodesk, Inc., suite has enabled information to be passed from one software to the next, resulting in a more-aggregated, seamless deliverable. Class attendees will learn how to capitalize on the Autodesk suite of products (Navisworks software, BIM 360 Glue software, BIM 360 Field software, Building Ops software) to efficiently tie the intelligent model and collected asset data together for better use and navigation of the closeout deliverable. We will highlight a recently completed project that adopted Building Ops software as an asset management tool, gaining efficiency in the facility management process. This session features Building Ops, BIM 360 Field, and BIM 360 Glue. AIA Approved

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Quantity with Clarity: Supercharge Your QTO Workflow Using Forma Takeoff

In today’s competitive construction landscape, estimators are often caught in the chaos of juggling 2D drawings and 3D models across ever-changing bid packages. Long nights, rushed numbers, and missed margins are all too common. Enter Forma Takeoff software—a powerful, cloud-based solution on Autodesk Forma that brings clarity, accuracy, and connection to your quantification process. In this hands-on lab, you’ll experience firsthand how Takeoff transforms the way quantity takeoffs are performed. Whether you're working in 2D, 3D, or both, this class will walk you through the complete connected workflow—from setting up customized takeoff types and applying unit costs, to managing drawing revisions and comparing snapshots mid-process. By the end, you'll know how to deliver faster, smarter, and more accurate takeoffs that give your team the competitive edge in bidding.

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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Accelerating high-tech project start. Discover how a general contractor leverages cutting-edge tools for rapid mobilization.

Immerse yourself in the inspiring world of integrated high-tech factory planning at Exyte. Learn how groundbreaking Dynamo automation and advanced BIM technologies are revolutionizing the efficiency and quality of project setups. In this AU course, you'll learn how large project teams can use automated Dynamo scripts to quickly create Revit setups, configure detailed IFC file export and exchange, and meet even the most demanding customer requirements. All seamlessly integrated with collaboration on the Autodesk Forma (Forma) platform. This automation greatly simplifies and accelerates project mobilization and ensures seamless collaboration between the in-house engineering team and partners. Learn how Exyte leverages technology innovations to deliver Digital Twin-enabled models to their customers, empowering the entire project team of 60+ designers to efficiently and effectively engage in project execution from the first moment and redefine high-tech facility design.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan with Workplan

In a constantly shifting world, better control and collaboration are critical to progressing projects forward while navigating change. Proficient schedule management is key to meeting the demands of tight project timelines. With digital work plans, you can provide a clear path toward set milestones and checkpoints during the course of your project. Join this session to discover how Clayco, in partnership with Autodesk, assessed and adopted the new work planning features in Forma Build software. Hear how Clayco uses Autodesk’s schedule management tools to manage the maze of phone calls, emails, and complex spreadsheets, and learn how you can too. See how you can find answers with just a few clicks, with integrated schedule management connected to your other tools. In addition, the Autodesk schedule product team will highlight key features on the road map to showcase the future of digitized, collaborative, and connected work plans within Forma Build.

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