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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Article / 2018
BIM Plan to Execute - Adding Tunnel Road Capacity to Existing Thimble Shoal Tunnel
This article presents the initial planning, pre-execution, and execution stages of a BIM-driven project...
Article / 2018
The Rise of AI and Machine Learning in Construction
Discover how the field of construction is well placed to benefit from the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
Article / 2017
Manage the Knowledge at Your Company: Find, Capture, Share, and Measure
Capturing what your employees know, and then formatting and presenting it to the company, has become a huge need as the amount and value of knowledge, along with the efficiency of getting to it has become increasingly important. The amount of internal knowledge is growing exponentially...
Article / 2017
BIM Execution Planning: How an $800 Million Project Got It Done
Article / 2017
A Hardware Wonk’s Guide to Specifying the Best 3D and BIM Workstations
Working with today’s leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) and 3D visualization tools presents a special challenge to your IT infrastructure. Wrestling with the computational demands of...
Article / 2017
How to Become a Facilitator of Collaboration in the Construction Industry
We have been taught how to create models and how models can be appended together...
Article / 2015
Real-World Applications of 3D Printing
Article / 2018
Construction of a Hydropower Plant with Zero Drawings: A Success Story from Norway
The Smisto Hydropower project is a new hydropower project currently being constructed in Norway. It has become one of the first projects challenging the traditional use of 2D drawings as a design basis in a project.
Article / 2017
How to Capture the Value of IoT in Buildings
Commercial buildings are on the verge of the biggest transformation in history. The Internet of Things (IoT) is making connected buildings a reality, and adoption is on the rise across the architecture, engineering, building technology, real estate, and construction industries. The use of IoT data...
Article / 2017
Habits of Highly Effective BIM Managers
Article / 2017
Powering BIM — Capitalizing on Revit for Building Energy Modeling
Article / 2017
Save Money with CAD Management (and Impress Your Boss)
Great CAD managers know that they can positively impact the bottom line by making projects run smoother and by reducing errors, but they often have difficulty getting their management teams to understand. This article presents ways to integrate CAD management into project workflows in a way that cuts rework and gets more work done in fewer man-hours — saving the company money on every project.
Article / 2019
Managing Your Sheets with the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager
Manage your drawings, share your data, and increase productivity and efficiency with the AutoCAD Sheet Set Manager. Learn more with Sam Lucido.
Article / 2019
What’s New in Autodesk Account for Subscribers | Emily Svensson and Linda Decovich
Emily Svensson and Linda Decovich introduce the latest Autodesk Account improvements.
Article / 2019
Integrating Mixed Reality with Construction | Christian Claus
Christian Claus of HoloBuilder discusses reality capture for construction project management.
Theater Talk / 2021
Unlocking the Power in Your BIM Data | Virginia Senf
Maximize BIM for efficiency and cost by managing all the data associated with a building throughout its lifecycle. Structured, approved data stored in a cloud-based common data environment (CDE) provides a single source of truth for all stakeholders.
Theater Talk / 2021
Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital Twins through the Power of GeoBIM
Esri’s ArcGIS GeoBIM brings together data, personnel, and workflows into a single environment with more simplicity, context, and clarity than ever before.
Theater Talk / 2021
Transforming Cities through Automation and Virtual Mobility | Paul Murphy and Melissa Ross
Paul Murphy and Melissa Ross of GHD share their insights on what the response to the pandemic has taught us about ourselves as individuals and as a society, and the ways that it will permanently reshape our cities and how we plan them.
Theater Talk / 2020
Optimizing and Scaling BIM Processes
Accelerate the delivery of your BIM projects by optimizing your processes. Agata Kostrzewa explains how to move ahead.
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