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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Embracing Digital for Utility Owners: Severn Trent's Journey to Unprecedented Efficiency Through Management
In this session, we'll discuss how Severn Trent’s £6 billion investment over the next five years will transform the UK water industry. Using digital technology, we're set to enhance efficiency and expedite delivery. We'll discuss the "intelligent client" concept, fostering collaboration with the supply chain, while maintaining data ownership. We'll address the sector’s digital limitations, rooted in traditional practices, and the impending shift to digital solutions that will revolutionize water management. We stand at the brink of a digital revolution, driven by the imperative for operational efficiency, sustainable resource management, and compliance with regulatory demands. We'll confront the skills shortage and low productivity, showing how our digital strategy—powered by collaboration, driven by data, and enabled by Automation, Integration, & Customization—will create an ecosystem where artificial intelligence (AI) is ubiquitous. Discover a future where project constructability, affordability, and performance are guaranteed by design.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Water Project Lifecycle Connected Data with Civil 3D, GIS, Dynamo, Python, and IFC

This class will showcase a connected data workflow used to deliver large water and sewer infrastructure projects from design to commissioning. This is accomplished with a systematic use of Civil 3D software and ArcGIS integration, asset data governance, and Industry Foundation classes (IFC) for digital-twin commissioning. The sewer and water designs are first developed in Civil 3D. Dynamo and Python are used to attach a class library as property set data and generate a spreadsheet model database. The spreadsheet is linked to an Esri geodatabase through geoprocessing and Python. This geodatabase is updated with field-collected attribute data and as-built data via Esri Field Maps. The computational process is reversed to update the spreadsheet and subsequently the Civil 3D model. The model is delivered as-built, and an IFC version containing the asset data is exported for the owner's digital-twin ecosystem.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Water Infrastructure Projects: BIM Collaborative Workflow with Reality Capture and ACC
This case study will explore the transformative impact of integrating Autodesk products into water infrastructure projects. We’ll highlight how operational efficiency is enhanced, collaboration is streamlined, quality control is maintained, and Project Delivery is facilitated throughout the project lifecycle. By using Autodesk Construction Cloud (Autodesk Docs, Autodesk Build, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and ReCap software), the case study will demonstrate practical applications in three pivotal phases: design, construction, and operations and maintenance (O&M). Through two real-world examples, you’ll gain insights into how these tools work together to optimize project outcomes and ensure seamless integration across different stages.
32p
Panel / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | Out of the Shadows. Into the Light: From Experience Designer to Architect—Success Stories of Women in AEC.
Throughout history, women have pioneered innovations that have shaped the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, laying the foundation for groundbreaking technologies and radical transformations. We’ll explore the powerful impact of women driving change across the industry, and look ahead to the future of how we design and make. Hear from Autodesk Expert Elites and influential product designers at the forefront of transformative technologies. These women have adopted AI-powered generative design solutions. They’re using Digital Prototyping technology to create climate-resilient architecture. And they’re driving the successful integration of cloud-based platforms across large-scale organizations. Whether you're a woman in AEC or an ally, this session will provide actionable insights, inspiring stories, and an opportunity to connect and ask questions with the trailblazers shaping the future of design, construction, and technology.
8p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Data Sludge to Liquid Gold: Transforming the Future of Water Infrastructure Through Digital Prototypings
Water infrastructure owners and operators face poor asset information handover due to system misalignment. Could Automation, Integration, & Customization and integrated data enable Digital Prototypings to support operational efficiency, reduce rework and costs, and improve health and safety (H&S)? Learn how GHD successfully used client-focused data exchange and cloud collaboration during the 40MLD upgrade of Wellington Water Limited’s Te Mārua water treatment plant to ease these struggles. Automating the integration of asset information using Autodesk products enabled delivery of the asset register 12 months early—saving NZ$150,000 and 1,400 hours in asset data management. Combining Esri mobile apps and dashboards enhanced as-built quality and reduced site H&S risks. A proof of concept was developed where GeoBIM and Autodesk Docs software were fused to create a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) common data environment (CDE)—the foundation for an operations and maintenance Digital Prototyping. We’ll share valuable lessons on managing evolving data needs and supply chains to demonstrate how connected workflows made Project Delivery more efficient.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
A Novel Approach to Scalable Data-Driven Pluvial Modeling with a 1D and 2D Hydrodynamic Flood Model Tool

In the summer of 2023, Cleveland, Ohio, faced extreme convective storms that caused localized flooding due to intense rainfall overwhelming catch basins. However, a catchment flood model simulation showed no flooding, highlighting the model’s failure to capture surface water. To address catchment model limitations, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) partnered with MIT to develop a regional, 2D, ICM model. This research develops a scalable, data-driven, pluvial flood model using a 2D, rain-on-mesh, ICM hydrodynamic model with detailed urban textures. The ICM model findings accurately replicated observed flood locations. High-resolution model validation is key, supported by advances in sensors, monitoring, and crowd-sourced data (though often underused). NEORSD and the City of Cambridge (Massachusetts) offer rich data sets. This presentation will showcase a novel validation framework integrating remote sensing and real-time data, applied to a city-scale, high-resolution flood model in Cleveland and Cambridge in collaboration with local agencies.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Flushing the Giants: InfoWater Pro in Large Water-Main Cleaning
Flushing large-diameter transmission water mains is a critical yet complex step in maintaining water quality. This session will highlight how InfoWater Pro was used to plan the flushing of more than six miles of 36-inch pipe by modeling hydraulic conditions, reversing flow direction, and optimizing valve and tank operations. You’ll learn about modeling guided decision making to increase flow rates for scouring while avoiding disruptions to customer service. Through a focused case study, this session will illustrate how to integrate hydraulic modeling and operational strategy to support effective large-main flushing.
37p
Meetup / Nashville 2025
Low Impact, High Tech: Sustainable Design Solutions in the Age of AI Meetup

Join professionals from across industries for an engaging networking experience passionate about driving sustainable outcomes in the age of AI. Whether you're working on carbon analysis, sustainable design and manufacturing, preserving biodiversity, or water stewardship, this is your chance to connect with peers and explore the strategies and technologies changing the way we create a more sustainable future.

We’ll start with a brief welcome and a few conversation starters, like how Autodesk tools help you design more, guess less, and stay friends with the planet today. We’ll explore how the advent of AI is impacting your Sustainable Design strategies as both a challenge and a catalyst (because Sustainable Design, like AI, isn’t always straightforward). Whether you're here to exchange ideas, discover solutions, or build new connections, this meetup is designed to spark meaningful dialogue and collaboration.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Real-World Problems: Taming the Mighty Red River of the North with AutoCAD® Civil 3D®
The cities of Fargo, ND, and Moorhead, MN, are divided by the Red River of the North because of major yearly flooding. To address this, a new six-mile earthen levee system that includes five separate interior drainage systems, five 100-year regional storm water retention basins, and five 5,000 GPM storm water pumping stations was designed. Due to the large scale of project and the issues that arose, Ulteig Engineers asked for the assistance of their current reseller, Managed Design. The issues pertaining to this project were file size, slow drawings, and issues around being able to have more team members help with the project. Managed Design was hired to come in during the project to help identify bottlenecks in the process. What will be shown and discussed are the results and the final product of implementing both composite surfaces and data shortcuts into their design process. You will be able to ask your questions to both the prime civil tech designer on the project and the corresponding application engineer from Managed Design.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Rethinking Wet Weather Modeling: Applying GIM Hydrology to Sanitary Sewer Systems for Long-Term Infiltration
The groundwater infiltration model (GIM) has traditionally been reserved for combined sewer systems—but prolonged wet weather response in separated sanitary systems demands a new approach. This presentation will explore how the Trinity River Authority of Texas (TRA) and its consultants redefined modeling practices by applying GIM to better simulate multi-week infiltration events. Historically considered unsuitable for sanitary systems, GIM proved essential for capturing peak flows and volumes critical to treatment-plant sizing, storage planning, and operational strategy. As the design support needs of engineers and managers evolve, TRA’s hydraulic modeling practices have adapted, expanding run durations and improving calibration methodologies. This case study challenges the status quo and sets a new standard for how InfoWorks ICM software’s hydrology can be used to meet real-world operational demands.
45p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Using Sensor Data to Drive Dynamic Hydraulic Models in InfoWater Pro with Info360 Insight
In this session, we'll equip attendees with practical skills and tools to facilitate the integration of sensor data and analytics into InfoWater Pro software's water distribution models using Info360 Insight software. Our primary focus will be the underexplored strategy of dynamically coupling hydraulic models with sensor data, a key aspect in deploying digital twins. These connected models have the potential to save utilities substantial resources through improved operational decision making. We'll discuss the data types suitable for hydraulic models, the preprocessing steps required, and various integration strategies, such as the automatic scaling of customer demands to meet forecasts. The aim is to provide a thorough understanding of digital twins' application in hydraulic modeling, offering attendees valuable insights into this intricate domain.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Avoid Death by a Thousand Cuts: Quantifying and Reducing Background Leakage Using InfoWater Pro
Huge volumes of drinking water are lost to background leakage during distribution. This entails large financial and environmental footprints from extraction, transport, treatment, storage, and pumping. While water models usually simplify leakage to behave as fixed demands, InfoWater Pro software’s new modeling capabilities explicitly incorporate the sensitivity of losses to pressure changes. In this session, we will demonstrate how to easily convert a regular distribution model into one with realistic leakage using a new allocation tool. Both hydraulic and asset pipe information (such as age, number of connections, and material) is used to determine realistic allocations of known leakage amounts per zone to individual elements. Moreover, we will explore how a leakage-aware model can lead to detailed spatiotemporal estimates of water loss under different operating scenarios, and lead to precise quantifications of the economic and hydraulic effects of asset replacement and pressure-control programs.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Identifying Critical Water Infrastructure for Strategic Resilience and Risk Planning with InfoWorks WS Pro and Info360 Asset
Aging infrastructure combined with limited funding and tightening regulations are causing great stress on water networks. Water assets are considered critical based on their likelihood and consequence of failure. The consequence of a critical pipe failure could lead to outages, severely disrupting daily activities and access to drinking water—in addition to the financial implications associated with property damage, road closures, and manufacturing disruptions. The path toward mitigating such risk starts with hydraulic modeling in conjunction with sound asset-management practices built into Info360 Asset software. In this session, we'll showcase InfoWorks WS Pro software's critical link analysis to automate criticality simulations, where areas of the network are isolated, and the corresponding level of service impacts are reported. Next, we'll make this data available in Info360 Asset to perform risk analysis, develop rehabilitation decision trees, and ultimately prioritize capital spending.
9p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Navigating Drainage Design: A Flood of Solutions with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage
Join us for an in-depth technical instruction session as we guide you through the entire process of a drainage design project, from preproject planning to detailed design. Harnessing the power of legacy architecture, engineering, and construction tools (InfraWorks and Civil 3D software) as well as the newer tools and InfoDrainage, we'll demonstrate seamless interoperability and connectivity to streamline your workflow. We'll focus on the catchment automation aspects of InfraWorks and Civil 3D. Then, we'll shift to how Civil 3D and InfoDrainage can be used to complete the drainage design even as these subcatchments change as the project progresses. You'll learn practical techniques and best practices for using this interoperability to its fullest potential. By connecting the design-and-make process from end to end, we're advancing practices in the field of drainage design. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your skills and revolutionize your approach to drainage projects with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage.
34p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Design, Analyze, Repeat: How to Improve Civil 3D Workflows with InfoDrainage
Come see how Civil 3D software and InfoDrainage integrate to design and optimize your drainage design on any site. We will start off with a story of how Kimley-Horn, the Civil 3D team, and the InfoDrainage team worked together to solve some of the most-complex challenges we all face during design. For instance, we will show you the vast improvements we've made, including new Civil 3D objects, interoperability with Civil 3D, clash detection, and the enormous improvements with flexible reporting. In this session, we'll explore how InfoDrainage transforms drainage design workflows and optimizes stormwater management. Attendees will learn to integrate InfoDrainage into project workflows, enhancing collaboration and streamlining processes. Our expertise will guide participants in using InfoDrainage for time-saving Civil 3D interoperability, cost reduction via design logic switching, improved outcomes with clash detection, and compliance assurance through design auditing and reporting.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Navigating Stormwater: How VHB Overcame Drainage Challenges Using InfoDrainage
Discover how VHB, a leading engineering firm, has transformed stormwater management by utilizing InfoDrainage. Attendees will learn how VHB improved their efficiency by transitioning from multiple software solutions to InfoDrainage, a unified and integrated platform. This session will illustrate the pitfalls of designing drainage systems using isolated drainage design tools and spreadsheets, highlighting the associated data loss and their inability to handle complexities. Through a comprehensive case study, attendees will gain insights into how VHB leveraged InfoDrainage to enhance their drainage design workflows and advance sustainable drainage systems. The presentation will explore the technical features of InfoDrainage, highlighting its sophisticated simulation tools powered by the hydrodynamic formulation of the SWMM engine. These tools are designed for accurate representation of the interactions between various drainage objects to tackle the challenges associated with complex sites.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Digital Transformation Through Drones and LiDAR: Revolutionizing the Grand Canyon National Park Water System Project
This case study will explore the first-ever commercial drone operations permitted within the rim of the Grand Canyon, and how the imagery captured was used to inform a critical water infrastructure project. Grand Canyon National Park, in Northern Arizona, is considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. It encompasses an impressive 278 miles of the Colorado River and adjacent uplands and averages more than 10 miles wide. To support work to modernize the Grand Canyon Water System—which serves thousands of residents and millions of annual visitors—we used drones, surveying, and LiDAR technology to acquire high-resolution orthomosaic images and point clouds. In this digital transformation success story, we also employed Autodesk tools such as AutoCAD Civil, ReCap, Revit, and other Autodesk products.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
From Flat to Fab: Greening Landscapes with Landscape Information Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
It is time for landscape to step up its digital game and claim a bigger slice of the design spotlight alongside architects and engineers. This session will explore the direct leap from 2D to landscape information modeling (LIM), with a twist: envisioning AI's role in landscape. This session will explore how Henning Larsen architects transition from traditional 2D design to LIM with Revit tools and workflows, while pointing out both challenges and opportunities. Toward the end of the session, we'll explore how using AI can empower landscapers to optimize resource management, enhance water efficiency, and propel sustainable practices. Furthermore, we'll explore the potential of AI-driven LIM for critical sustainability metrics, such as energy consumption, carbon footprint, and ecological equilibrium. This session will advocate for landscape design's digital evolution, transitioning to LIM with AI possibility, as exemplified by the experiences of Henning Larsen architects.
42p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Integration of BIM and Hydraulic Modeling into a Single Workflow
The development level of hydraulic modeling applications enables their use in various everyday situations in the water industry throughout the entire lifecycle of assets, not only in the design and specification stages. The development of information flows in each phase of asset life enables integration and interoperability between design applications (Civil 3D or InfraWorks software), geographic information systems (ArcGIS), and hydraulic modeling software (InfoWorks WS PRO software). This new dynamic enhances the use of these tools together, extracting the best result as quickly and accurately as possible, both in the design phase and also during operations and maintenance. In this session, we'll go through studies of network pathways, sizing, depth, clash detection, documentation, calibration, operational rules, and more, using the best application for each step with the smoothest interoperability.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Advances in Data Center Design and Delivery Through Automation, Industrialization, and Decarbonization
Increasing need for data and AI is creating unprecedented demand for data-center capacity, while social and regulatory pressure demands reduced energy and water consumption. Serial hyperscale, co- location, and "edge" clients are driving innovation in design and industrialization, using digital libraries of configurable, scalable solutions for repeatable, standardized designs that can be amended to suit local codes and site constraints. Benefits include that solutions capture and optimize for a wide range of stakeholder needs. In addition, creating rules-based relationships allows design automation, and site-specific designs are created in hours. The approach facilitates supply chain input—using standard products reduces lead times and alleviates pressure on suppliers. Individual elements can be refined "offline" and reintroduced when ready—critical for bringing in new technology for cooling and decarbonization without total redesign. Automotive does this well, leading to continual improvement, not constant reinvention.
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