How do contractors adapt their estimating and project management processes to the new world of increased modular manufacturing and prefabrication? Because contractors want to take advantage of CAD model data and manage projects with more precise estimates, we need methods to better align data to process. Discover the next generation of Data Analytics – hidden in your data. This class reviews the power and benefits of using model-based estimates to predict and create future estimates more accurately and manage projects more concisely. Explore the challenges and obstacles to aligning field provided data, including cost code structures and automation of cost code creation, along with data alignment and the requirements to implement estimating of fabrication ITMs and families. Examine how to practically proceed in building process around tracking data, collecting then organizing data to use in the next generation of tools for predictive estimate values and project sales tools like CRM.

With next generation technology, much of the model coordination process has been transformed through automation and digital collaboration, democratizing the model coordination experience for VDC managers and trade teams. But a truly coordinated experience isn’t possible without connecting all parts of BIM data from design to plan to build. This session will show you how Autodesk is delivering on this new level of connected model coordination and how integrated workflows will deliver best-in-class coordination capabilities.

Material waste in construction commonly adds up to as much as 30% of procured material and 10% or more of project budget, offering a clear opportunity for optimization. Wasted materials also represent a sizable "forgotten" portion of a building's embodied carbon, infrequently measured or accounted for. This session will start from the premise that material utilization cannot be truly improved in isolation, exploring how the pursuit of more sustainable construction is fundamentally interlinked with other measurable outcomes like quality, schedule, cost, and safety—each worthy of optimization in its own right. Drawing on case studies and backed by Forma workflows, the presenters will show how the pursuit of more sustainable construction correlates with project success. They will argue that lean construction, which aims to root out waste in all its forms, offers a pathway to triple bottom-line success, combining positive outcomes for people, the planet, and profit.

Are you building apps on the Forge, Forma, or BIM 360 platforms? Are you using Forge as part of your digital transformation strategy—or helping your customers transform their businesses? Do you want to learn more about what the Forge Team has been working on throughout the past year? Come join us to learn about the improved API, the new Forma and BIM 360 APIs, the next generation of API to work with data, and more. See what's new with Forge APIs and what's coming in the next generation of the Forge platform. Get the insights you need to confidently create your application development plans.

Point clouds are more than just dots in space. They represent existing walls, doors, pipes, ground surfaces and so much more. They represent millions and millions of individual pieces of information. And because of this, their file size can be enormous and often difficult to work with. But it doesn't have to be that way. This class will demonstrate ways that you can take advantage of the new scan-to-mesh and publish features in ReCap Pro to share, view, comment, and collaborate on your point clouds. We'll also look at ways you can utilize point clouds in an efficient and effective manner by extracting only the relevant information for your design.

This class will showcase the power of the 2022 workflow of InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional software for civil engineering. We'll demonstrate how to create building site, platform, and gradings proposition with InfraWorks. We'll use Civil 3D to perform earthworks optimization from InfraWorks data. We'll link retaining walls for complex gradings from Revit to Robot Structural Analysis Professional for reinforcement analysis and detailing. We'll integrate the completed building site model in the real context in InfraWorks, which can be shared and collaborated on in Forma software.

Are you curious how a 96-year-old company innovates? Today, the amount of new technology available can be overwhelming to organizations—from point solutions that solve one problem to platforms that require strategy around deployment. Barton Malow faced many of those challenges when overhauling software solutions. In this session, we will walk through the journey that Barton Malow took to modernize and transform business development through project operations. We'll lay out the techniques that the firm used to scale deployment of tools like BIM 360 software, BuildingConnected, and Assemble software. We will also cover how to cultivate a "super user" base to scale within an enterprise for success. In this class we’ll uncover best practices deployed to transform enterprise tools, including capitalizing on Microsoft Teams and learning management systems, and we’ll discuss metrics that are lighthouses informing Barton Malow how to scale Forma.

Estimating teams play a vital role in winning new business. Yet many of today’s solutions lack collaboration, require a highly manual process, and too often result in siloed data across teams. Join this session to learn how estimators can benefit from next-generation 2D and 3D technology to deliver best practices in quantification and estimating. You’ll also learn how Autodesk will be driving the industry forward with connected, cloud-based, preconstruction planning tools with the power of automated tooling and machine learning.

Are you interested in building a data-driven organization but you have poor visibility into key project information to help you plan and strategize? Are you struggling with data silos that prevent you from getting meaningful and actionable insights? Learn how to maximize data and analytics across the construction lifecycle to empower teams across various functions and workflows. Whether you’re looking to better understand the health of a specific project, assess team performance, review the status of your overall project portfolio, or explore ways to optimize new projects for improved outcomes, this session will show you how Forma can deliver unified data, analytics, and reporting capabilities on top of a robust, secure, and scalable data platform built for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

Traditional structural reviews, especially for complex projects, often struggle to convey spatial complexities and foster true collaboration. Autodesk Workshop XR is Autodesk’s groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) platform seamlessly integrated with Autodesk Forma—and it is designed to overcome these barriers. This session will show how Thornton Tomasetti came to use Autodesk Workshop XR and is transforming structural engineering workflows. Learn how to conduct instant, immersive design reviews directly from Autodesk Forma models, fostering real-time collaboration among engineers, architects, contractors, and owners in a shared virtual space. We’ll explore how this enhances communication, accelerates the identification of structural challenges in renovations, and streamlines issue tracking directly within VR back to Autodesk Forma. Through practical examples and live demonstrations, discover how the Autodesk solutions deliver tangible benefits, such as reduced errors, cost savings, and, ultimately, more-successful building projects.

Introduced at Autodesk University 2019, Forma brings together the most powerful portfolio of construction management software products in the industry, supporting workflows spanning all phases of construction—from design, to planning, to building, to operations. There is tremendous breadth of supported workflows, depth of capabilities in each of the software products, and connectivity of data between those products. Over the past year, Autodesk has focused on three main areas of advancement with Forma: continuing investment into improving Assemble, BuildingConnected, PlanGrid, and BIM 360 software; delivering more integrations and connectivity between the products; and building a unified platform. This class will show how Forma has advanced over the course of the last 12 months, and we’ll explore the workflows from design through operations that can be supported by the products.

Forma is today being used across a large range of projects globally. This session will demonstrate a number of use cases, including how PlanGrid is helping build and maintain railways, Assemble is being used to quantify materials in dams, BuildingConnected is being used to source subcontractors for road projects, and BIM 360 software is being used to manage complex infrastructure projects. We will also show how Autodesk partners are being used in conjunction with Forma products to help infrastructure asset owners better use the data collected on a project.

Every construction project team needs the right tools to support key workflows, including QA/QC, safety, RFIs, and cost and progress. Today, teams use a number of different tools and techniques to execute them. The risks of using various applications and processes for these are poor information access, lack of connectivity and collaboration between the office and the field, and tools that are built for either field workers on mobile devices or office workers on laptops. The vision of Forma is to enable connectivity across the project, and this session will provide an update on the future product road map for field and project management capabilities.

Autodesk has firmly committed to an open integration ecosystem to help construction firms collaborate and drive efficiency. As a result, technology partners offer over 150 direct integrations and Autodesk Forma™ Connect powers hundreds of possible custom integration workflows. Come listen to our key partners across industries such as mixed reality, reality capture, financials and budget planning, data and analytics, site and safety management, and more. We will discuss partnering with Autodesk, the breadth and depth of these integrations, and the workflows that can be achieved with our ecosystem.

Providing construction project teams with complete, accurate, and construction-ready design documentation is one of the best ways to ensure that design intent is met during construction. During the design process, there are many stakeholders that play a role in development of design documentation—from architects and CAD managers, to virtual design and construction teams, owners, contractors, and trades. But not everybody works in the same location or at the same time. Using the cloud to support collaboration during the design process can connect these stakeholders, and this class will discuss how to easily bring designs from AutoCAD software, Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software into Forma to support cloud-based collaboration.

Sustainability in construction is a complex issue. As the world becomes more environmentally focused, we’re wrestling with how to implement sustainability in practice. There are so many pieces to the sustainability puzzle, and technology like Autodesk's Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Forma software are key pieces. Buro Happold is known for its technology-forward thinking, and has long been working toward an equitable and green recovery, adapting its business to mitigate climate change and the biodiversity crisis. The firm’s vision for the future is for a regenerative ecosystem—both natural and built—that provides suitable habitats for humans and non-humans alike. In this class, we’ll consider how implementing processes, documentation, and software can help support more sustainable and environmentally friendly design, and we’ll share lessons Buro Happold has learned regarding how to effectively use technology to achieve these aims.

This class is the next level up from the “Structural Design to Fabrication: Revit and Advance Steel—Buddies for Life” class at Autodesk University 2020. Once you have designed, simulated, and generated the fabrication drawings, the next step is making them available to the field teams. On top of that, tracking the changes and ensuring the site teams have access to the latest documentation is one of the main challenges. This class will focus on the various office-to-field workflows you can use to share the latest and greatest structural BIM (Building Information Modeling) data and fabrication drawings with the extended teams in the field. You will learn about the Forma Data Management workflows that come in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection that you can use to share and compare different versions of structural BIM data and fabrication drawings for effective decision-making processes in the field. This class will also cover the process of creating and managing issues related to structural field workflows.

CAD has helped grow the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry far beyond manually produced paper drawings, empowering us to produce more complex, more accurate designs. Today, the AEC industry continues to face new challenges, including financial constraints that increase pressure to deliver projects more quickly and accurately. As a result, AEC firms are evolving their technology once again. In recent years, the move from CAD to Building Information Modeling (BIM) has accelerated as BIM workflows have proven to deliver many benefits over CAD. With the rise of BIM, many new capabilities for reinforced concrete design and rebar detailing have been introduced in BIM authoring tools. When using Revit for rebar design and detailing, every structural member can be modeled, documented, tracked, and controlled, and design changes can be coordinated easily and managed accurately. Don't wait to move to BIM—the right time is NOW.

Unleash the power of Revit software's Coordination Model Changes! Say goodbye to the tedium of manually tracking overlapping elements across disciplines, and welcome a sleek, cloud-based solution. This innovative tool instantly identifies modifications, additions, or deletions right in your Revit canvas/views. Experience effortless change detection with intuitive highlighting, clear object hierarchies, and filters tailored to your interests. Embrace the future of project management where your focus remains where it should be—on your design, not on tracking changes.

The year is 2021, and BIM is steadily becoming the norm in the industry. While Building projects have welcomed BIM, there still is a lot to explore when it comes to Infrastructure projects in India, especially in the case of higher levels of details (LOD) model requirements. In this talk, we will look at some case studies from large Indian construction projects where Autodesk tools were successfully utilized for taking BIM to a new level, with construction and fabrication workflows in mind. Additionally, aspects of modern, cloud-based project management using tools from Autodesk Forma shall be discussed and how the data within the models can be connected to other applications by leveraging the power of Autodesk Forge platform will be covered.