Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

The construction industry is undergoing a major digital transformation due to rapid industrialization, which brings pressing challenges, including workforce adaptation, lack of standardization, and skill gaps. As change accelerates, professionals struggle to keep up, and vulnerabilities become exposed, threatening project integrity and widening industry disparities. This panel discussion offers a timely platform for experts to share insights, experiences, and best practices for navigating the industrialization of construction. By addressing the urgent need to adapt to new technologies and methodologies and manage risks, this panel will foster dialog and collaboration among industry professionals. As a result, you will learn about the knowledge and tools needed to thrive in the industrialization era, bridging gaps and maximizing opportunities presented by advanced technologies. Professionals will be empowered to overcome challenges and maximize sustainability, efficiency, and innovation.

VINCI Construction aims for data reliability and security along with enhancing team productivity. VINCI developed an Autodesk Platform Services-powered hub that connects Autodesk tools within a unified and ergonomic web environment. VINCI is still accelerating the harnessing of Autodesk technologies to supply customized tools for internal needs and strategy. First, we will present the new Autodesk Platform Services integration that enables automation using Autodesk Platform Services along with open-source technologies, a perfect combination to achieve VINCI's inclusive digital transformation. Additionally, we will give insights into how these technologies simplify building information modeling (BIM) integration at various organizational levels, fostering on-site collaboration and cross-organizational efficiency. Then, we will present the project ROI and discuss its role in overcoming industry fragmentation and lack of productivity. Finally, we will showcase our data-harnessing approach through our internal hub using Autodesk technologies and cloud platforms.

After the fall of Kabul in August 2021, the U.S. military launched Operation Allies Welcome to provide housing for 15,000+ Afghan allies in 200+ military barracks in the United States. The program concluded successfully in February 2022, following the departure of the Afghan guests. These bases had been in service for decades, so wear and tear on the barracks was significant and required expedited remediation to return to military service in 2023. This is where APTIM—a global provider of services to the government, commercial, industrial, and energy and utility markets—came in and restored the buildings for use. This presentation highlights how APTIM used the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform to win the job and collaborate seamlessly. Through the implementation of Autodesk Build, SiteSense, and Esri ArcGIS Field Maps, APTIM's multidisciplinary team captured 25,000+ issues, quantified them as recommended repairs in its estimate, and converted those issues into 25,000+ successfully completed work items.

DPR Construction has the opportunity to work on some of the biggest projects across the globe. But rooted in the company's culture is a focus on applying excellence to projects of any scale. Small projects bring a set of challenges of their own: tight schedules, limited budget, thinly spread teams, and, most of the time, existing conditions. Virtual design and construction (VDC) can play a big role in delivering successful outcomes, but it takes the right mix of people, process, and technology. Join us for an engaging session where we'll walk through how DPR adapts to the unique challenges of smaller projects. We'll talk about the technology we almost always apply (spoiler: it's reality capture) and what tech we leave at home. And finally, we'll describe the type of person required to overcome small project challenges and how we go beyond collaboration with training, design support, and access to Autodesk tools.

The session will cover a detailed case study of the projects and give insights into the Lean BIM principle enabling Lean Construction by establishing the perfect BIM ecosystem across the industry across different stakeholders. 6 Lean principles in BIM and their relation to existing Lean Construction approach: 1) Visualization & understanding the end goal of the project 2) Rapid generation of design alternatives 3) Automated generation of drawings & documents 4) Maintenance of information and design model integrity 5) Reuse of model data for predictive analysis 6) Collaboration in design and construction with these BIM principles will go hand-in-hand with Lean Construction principles.

Digital models are the key to unlocking improved sustainability and lower costs in product design. This session will explore groundbreaking techniques for using 3ds Max and Maya software to create realistic 3D assets that designers can trust and rely on, eliminating the need for physical samples. Discover how physically based rendering (PBR) extensions generate assets with an accurate and tactile appearance. Learn how to render PBR assets consistently across various contexts for seamless collaboration. See how to maximize reusability by creating asset variations for other departments once the design is complete. Based on real-life examples from major retailers, this session demonstrates the compelling advantages of digital design: significantly reducing waste, eliminating delays, and cutting costs throughout the design process. Revolutionize your product design workflow with 3D assets that replace the real thing.

This session will focus on exploring the 4D scheduling collaboration process, from source models in Revit and Civil 3D software, to creating data-driven animations in SYNCHRO 4D and photorealistic experiences inside Unreal Engine. By bringing model and schedule together, week after week, our team has refined the models and schedule. Together, we reviewed the schedule, asked meaningful questions of it, and corrected any errors we found along the way. This class will use the case study of the Ontario Line Technical Advisory megaproject (CA $10.9 billion) and share the novel workflows that were adopted for establishing a seamless, dynamic, cloud-based connection and 3D coordination across multiple design platforms. We will demonstrate how these teams worked together to define innovative workflows for enriching transportation design models with the time dimension to perform constructability review and construction planning in interactive and immersive 4D models.

Are you struggling to manage multiple projects under a single framework? Do you find it challenging to ensure seamless information exchange and consistency in structuring information? If yes, then this class is for you. Atkins, a design consultant for Dublin and Cork Airports, faced a unique challenge of managing around 50 subprojects per year under a five-year framework. To overcome this challenge, we used Autodesk Construction Cloud to build a connected ecosystem that helps the delivery team manage their single source of truth and exchange information with internal and external stakeholders seamlessly. In this class, you'll learn how we capitalized on Autodesk Construction Cloud to build a scalable ecosystem for managing multiproject frameworks. You'll gain insights into our strategy for structuring information, automating workflows, and ensuring consistency across all projects. Additionally, you'll learn about the benefits of Autodesk Construction Cloud as compared to BIM 360, including improved collaboration, increased efficiency, and reduced risk.

ISO 19650 is a widely adopted standard for managing construction information that organizations are using to improve collaboration, productivity, and asset information delivery. Autodesk Construction Cloud plays the role of the common data environment (CDE). Autodesk has worked with Arcadis to align their systems and processes to the industry standard. The outcome of this engagement resulted in a Power BI dashboard that tracks project deliverables against the master information delivery plan through the key information states of Work in Progress, Shared, and Published. This joint presentation by Autodesk and Arcadis will cover practical approaches to deploying and training end users, applying change management practices, and scaling solutions across global organizations. You'll learn how to align their delivery to ISO 19650 using Autodesk Construction Cloud, implement time-saving dashboards, and scale new technology solutions across a global organization.

WME, part of Egis Group, will share the experience of being lead design consultant (LDC) and site supervisor on the UAE Pavilion in Dubai Expo—a building inspired by the country's national bird, the falcon. Learn how the intelligent model was implemented and managed on the project, from concept design to construction. Being LDC starts with the right mindset and the right attitude to drive a project forward during all stages of design, while being fully accountable for the design process. This is a perfect case study of building information modeling (BIM) deployment, from concept design to construction and management of all consultants—including architecture, structure, MEP, interior design, landscape, and so on—for integrated design delivery using cloud collaboration. WME maximized BIM for design innovation on complex structure design with enhanced coordination and key design influences using VR technology. Learn how we achieved a sustainable design and construction savings with a digital engineering approach using Autodesk products.

Creating visualizations can be challenging, but it can become easier with a step-by-step system that artists can follow. This system can act as a guide, providing a checklist of points that need to be included in the image to make it fabulous. In collaboration with the team, we've developed an eight-step system to share with you. It includes the following steps: composition, camera setup, lighting, color balance, materials, assets, storytelling, and postproduction. Combining these points leads to excellent results. Each is important, and the lack of one can lead to failure. The key is to find a balance between them, which comes with practice. Come and learn the concept behind this system and how to apply it in architectural visualization.

Managing quality control data in building information modeling (BIM) can be challenging, particularly in large-scale projects with numerous stakeholders. In this presentation, we will explore how tools like Vcad from Blogic and Autodesk Tandem software can help overcome these challenges. Vcad provides real-time quality control data management and analysis, streamlining the process and facilitating collaboration between project stakeholders. Autodesk Tandem, on the other hand, allows project teams to easily manage and visualize BIM data throughout the project lifecycle, improving data management and coordination. Together, these tools provide a powerful solution for managing quality control data in BIM. In this session, you'll learn about the benefits of using these tools, including improved project outcomes, reduced costs, and increased efficiency. We'll provide examples of how Vcad and Autodesk Tandem have been used in large-scale construction projects, and we'll share best practices for implementing these tools

The 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes in New Zealand decimated a city full of 500,000 people. Government and residents required fast and decisive action. Twelve years later, the rebuild continues. What would this city's rebuild look like now with all the new technology applied? Could we respond more rapidly? Could the city be carbon neutral? Would we focus on the same projects? Would the projects look different if we measured embodied carbon? Would we have greater collaboration and data analytics capture and use? Would we gain efficiencies? We will explore all this in this class. We'll have a recap of the event, the damage, the decisions made that set the ground for the next 20+ years of work, and how we might approach the planning, design, delivery, and future of the city and its anchor projects if we could do it all again. We'll explore and demonstrate key workflows, processes, data-informed decision making, and software with some of the real-world design-and-built projects. We will explore the implementation of InfraWorks software, Autodesk Forma, Dynamo, ReCap software, Autodesk Construction Cloud Pro, and Insight X and share our ideas for the future.

When challenged to manage building information modeling (BIM) on a project the size of a small city, routine project planning is not enough. This case study will show which current BIM management tools and methods work and which ones fail on a real project of 10 million square feet. Spoiler: There were many broken tools and many crashed computers. We'll show how a small but effective BIM and computational team can save hundreds of thousands of dollars through resource management, technological innovation, failure prevention, team upskilling, and cloud collaboration. We'll also touch on how managers can facilitate the use of computational workflows by being a bridge between users and tools. We want you to leave empowered to tackle BIM on projects of any size and any scale while also knowing how to evolve these methods for the future.

RHDHV's mission is to enhance society, and digitalization has become an integral part of this mission. The importance of building information modeling (BIM) data is therefore growing rapidly. However, ensuring consistency in a large and global organization is a challenge. This class will provide insight into how RHDHV envisions its staff working in a consistent manner and producing consistent BIM data. The session will cover the use of standards, guidelines, content, and tools to standardize workflows, as well as practices from the software development industry to streamline this. We'll discuss automation as a means of generating content in line with standards and reducing the need for extensive training. We'll explore collaboration in a cloud platform, along with cloud tools and dashboarding to validate consistent BIM data across the organization. You will gain insight into how RHDHV overcomes its BIM data consistency challenges, and how you can apply these strategies to your own organization.

In our current global market, time saved is money saved. This class will focus on how a robust Content Management System can save you time and increase quality assurance in the design process with efficient BIM assets while also being ISO 19650 compliant. Utilizing a cloud-based BIM Asset Management system like UNIFI has helped triple our library content and saved $1000's, so join this class as we uncover the secrets of how UNIFI can be used in all phases of design across multiple disciplines, from concept through to handover. This class will also illustrate that by using cloud-based platforms to connect teams, data, and workflows, collaboration workflows with other offices around the globe in a 24-hour work environment are increasingly more productive. You cannot afford to miss the opportunity of discovering how to make UNIFI work for you.

In this industry talk on visual collaboration and communication in design and manufacturing using VRED software, you will gain valuable insights that can enhance your product development process. The course will explore the importance of visual collaboration and communication, capitalizing on innovative technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and high-end rendering. You will learn how VRED integrates with these technologies to facilitate digital prototyping, remote collaboration, and streaming of design data. Additionally, the course will emphasize the advantages of cloud-based solutions for seamless access to project data and the use of high-end rendering capabilities. Real-world use-case examples will demonstrate the transformative impact these technologies have on communication, commitment, and sales.

CAD data is the most important intellectual property that a manufacturer has. Autodesk offers products that create, manage, and enrich this data. AutoCAD, Inventor, and Autodesk Fusion 360 software create this data while Vault, Fusion 360 Manage Extension, and Upchain help manage it. The cloud-based Fusion 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud platforms facilitate collaboration within the field, while Prodsmart helps collaboration within production. Simultaneously, aspects of this data need to be shared with other enterprise systems like ERP. Ultimately, all these systems must be able to share aspects of this data throughout the lifecycle of a manufacturer's products. We'll demonstrate, via examples of Autodesk customer projects, how technologies such as Autodesk Platform Services and other third-party technologies make it possible to share this important data between these systems rather than leaving it siloed in different systems.

In this session, we'll showcase how a web application, built on top of Autodesk Platform Services and our local database, can optimize the design process, improve CO2e footprint assessment, and enhance collaboration among clients and stakeholders. Using this web application enables clients to efficiently simulate design modifications, making well-informed decisions that effectively minimize both the cost and time associated with CO2e emissions. This ultimately leads to a more streamlined and sustainable design process. For a deeper dive into what we'll cover, please see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZKyYvjcyFC8EzgOVGxoBgPp2xWKs_bfO/view