This session will showcase our studio space in Toronto, where our journey started with a Revit intelligent model that has now evolved into a digital twin complete with IoT integration. You'll learn how we've integrated SQL, Revit, Autodesk Tandem, and Autodesk Forma into our workflows to create detailed 3D models, monitor asset performance, and capture project data. We've incorporated data from IoT sensors into Autodesk Tandem, thereby gaining insights into maintenance needs that enable us to address issues promptly. We'll discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing this throughout the project lifecycle, and how it improves quality, reduces costs, and increases user satisfaction. The aim of this session is to inspire you to consider the potential digital twin concepts, unlocking efficiency and quality in your projects' stakeholders. You'll leave the session with an understanding of how to integrate digital twin modeling and IoT technology, and the benefits that come with it.

This session will unveil an innovative approach to creating intelligent models by converging reality capture, IoT integration, and facility operations management within Autodesk Tandem software. We'll demonstrate capturing site progress with 360-degree photo documentation and precisely aligning it with intelligent models created from laser scans in Revit software. You'll see how we've integrated real-time environmental data from IoT sensors via MQTT and consolidated facility management workflows, including people-tracking analytics, on a unified dashboard. By combining these technologies, operations teams gain unprecedented visibility into project status, building performance, and occupant patterns. Explore using this cohesive solution to enhance asset operations, drive sustainability, and create superior user experiences across diverse built environments. Attendees will learn strategies for implementing reality capture, IoT integration, and smart facility management to elevate their building insights.

Explore the future of facility management. Learn how integrating IoT sensors with Autodesk Tandem software enhances asset monitoring, safety, and longevity. This session will demonstrate actionable insights from IoT data analytics to automate maintenance and reduce costs, offering a comprehensive guide to maximizing efficiency in facility operations.

The class will be a lecture on the EQ house, the actually built architecture that AI and IoT deployed. It was completed in March of 2019. Installed with advanced IoT technology and AI, EQ House is expected to be attached by the owner as if it were life-like architecture. It is installed with varied sensors to perceive environmental status and accumulates data about the owner’s preference by means of “like” buttons from the smart watch. The experimental design, inspection, and fabrication process was also needed to actually realize the futuristic architecture of the EQ House. By using the optimization process, the design period to determine the pattern of the facade decreased by 60% and through the inspection using BIM 360 Docs software and mixed reality decreased 20%, and the fabrication by 25%.

Advancements in architecture have been radical, rapid, and innovative; the way our profession delivers projects, educates, and shares information has transformed, driving the need for practices to think about whether their physical office spaces reflect current realities. Session participants will learn from partners at Turner Fleischer about the need to invest and adapt a studio to foster a culture of forward-thinking possibilities. Amid a complete renovation, we’ll openly share the thought process, requirements, and driving philosophy of re-imaging our firm’s space to reflect an unwavering commitment to continual learning and growth paired with client and staff experience. The aim is to challenge participants to consider whether their own studios best serve staff, clients, and the digitization of practices. Overhead investment is never taken lightly; but as firms accept betterment as a strategic priority, reality necessitates a space to support our evolving roles.

You may not have a creative bone in your body, nor some great repressed talent. It doesn't matter; this can't stop you from orchestrating the most incredible feats of creativity and innovation. Now, more than ever, everyone needs to be that much more resourceful and able to combine great engineering with creative finesse to market distinctive and appealing products. Whether it's regarding aesthetics, user experience, functionality, or even branding, everyone needs a piece of this. This session is presented by someone who has lived off of the fruits of other people's creative labor. He will teach you his techniques and the tools he uses to produce awesome.

Windows Universal Platform is redefining product experience on cross-platform devices by blurring the device dependencies, and enabling the user to run the same product across all Windows 10-supported devices. This enabled us to explore new possibilities for AutoCAD software drawing experiences on futuristic devices like HoloLens, Surface Hub, Continuum, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this session, we will showcase our explorations: How AutoCAD software can change the future of making things by breaking boundaries of conventional desktop software. How small devices (Phone with Continuum) are carrying AutoCAD 360 web app and getting transformed to desktop experience just by connecting any size of the display. We’ll cover virtual-reality CAD exploration, where 3D reality mixes with 2D virtual shapes for a fast, powerful, and accurate visualization. No prerequisite required, as we are exploring new ways to use and work with AutoCAD software drawings. This session features AutoCAD 360 and AutoCAD. AIA Approved

Connect Reality with BIM-ality! This class will showcase Matterport scanning as an effective visualization tool within BIM 360 Ops software. We will also explore creating links to model elements to the physical site, and we’ll review layout automation, data and information linking, and site access.

Can BIM underpin a smart future for predictive maintenance post occupancy? The recent advent of live, online collaborative databases of BIM information, shared in cloud-based services, presents a very real opportunity for us to consider BIM as a key smart system to be designed into a building and residing on a common data network. The purpose is to make smart and automated management decisions about the operation of the building—essentially we’re talking about predictive maintenance.

Construction is still one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, with job sites being complex networks of people, equipment, and activity that are dangerous and ever changing. With continued pressured to drive more value to clients, how do project teams use technology to improve productivity while maintaining safe working conditions? Skanska sought to answer this question and has piloted the use of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based technology called real-time location systems (RTLS) to dynamically track people and assets in order to make our job sites smarter, safer, and more productive. This presentation will focus on how RTLS can enhance environmental awareness and real-time visibility of worker’s safety and productivity on active job sites, as well as into operations. Representatives of Skanska and Redpoint Positioning will explore RTLS in action on real projects, along with benefits, challenges, and lessons learned. They will also explore the role of CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools when deploying RTLS. This session features Revit, AutoCAD, and BIM 360 Field. AIA Approved

The future of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is closed loop lifecycle management (CL2M). With the availability of cost-effective radio frequency identification (RFID) sensors to get real-time data, and automatic receivers linked with databases, we can make use of the Internet of Things (IoT) to enhance the built environment. To use CL2M in projects, we have to start within the design phase (beginning of life), and then use this data in the maintenance phase (middle of life). In this course, we will model and use data for a tunnel design and construct project to ensure the requirements and the lifetime of prestressed parts. With the help of Vault software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Navisworks software, you will learn how to make use of real-time sensor data inside of your BIM models. Using these tools, you can implement RFID tags in your design (for example, Dynamic corridor solids with property data) and connect to external databases (in this example, Excel) communicating with sensors used in the field to measure construction requirements and feeding this info back into the lifecycle. This session features Navisworks Manage, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and Vault Professional. AIA Approved

In this class, we will introduce Sensequake sensing-based structural analysis. We have developed advanced software and sensors to provide professional services and a turnkey solution to engineers and asset owners. Our patented technology performs structural health monitoring and seismic assessment solely based on actual data from highly sensitive vibration sensors—saving engineers time, effort, and money—all while providing superior results. This allows for the detection of hidden defects and undocumented structural modifications not detected by visual inspection and traditional engineering practices. In this class, we will explain how sensing technologies can be used for periodic and permanent structural-health monitoring. The assessments are based on very accurate sensing tests, without the need for a finite element (FE) analysis. In fact, our sensing results can be used to calibrate FE simulations build by Revit software, Robot Structural Analysis software, or other FE packages.

Today, there are more than 16 billion active wireless-connected devices, and that number will more than double and exceed 40 billion by 2020, according to ABI Research. With more and more smart things surrounding us in smart homes, offices, streets, and cities, can our 2D and 3D design also become smarter and connected? Can our design data become a smart living thing that connects to the physical world, monitors and interacts with the surrounding environment, and helps deliver performance visibility toward predictive maintenance and reduced downtime? The answer is yes! In this class we will explore new ways of building “smart connected” design and demonstrate how you can connect your design with physical microcontrollers and communicate with sensors in real time. We will also show you how to turn your design into an interaction-on-demand system that enables anyone to interact with any device at any time, all with the power of Autodesk 360 web service and Internet of Things (IoT).

As engineers, we solve problems by evaluating inputs, outputs, and boundary conditions. Engineers have attempted to solve problems surrounding the effects of global poverty since it has existed, but often neglect important historical and political inputs. Neglecting these inputs has resulted in growing global inequalities in terms of wealth, human rights, and livelihood. One factor leading to these disparities is how we go about measuring progress toward a more equitable world. How can engineering help effectively measure global inequalities and give justice to vulnerable people who have been and continue to be excluded and exploited, all while bearing the brunt of the ecological impact of climate change? In this class, we will discuss better ways of measuring inequalities, designing for environmental justice, and bringing the industry’s attention to these systemic and historical realities which are often ignored by practitioners.

Autodesk Research has been exploring the intersection of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and Internet of Things (IoT) for the last decade. Project Dasher (http://dasher360.com) integrates sensor data with model data from Autodesk's Forge platform to contextualize IoT data in 3D. This session will look at what is happening with Dasher, but also will talk in detail about the Forge capabilities that Dasher has used—which are available to all Forge developers—to build a digital twin integrating real-world performance data.

Tools are just tools, from linear processes with a fixed chain of demand to agile processes in an innovative culture. People and culture are the keys to succeed in transforming your organisation. How to make your company embrace new workflows, digital opportunities, and redefine the role of your company in its existing market. It is about creating digital teams, developing competence in existing teams, creating a speedboat that leads the change, and implementing a curious culture that can perform while transforming. Johanna Frelin, CEO of Tengbom Architects, will explore and share tangible examples of her experience in leading the digital transformation within organisations and specifically within Tengbom.

This class will introduce attendees to the Fusion Connect development platform. You will learn how to model a digital twin of your machine assets, and (using a little business logic along with our point-and-click tools) you will learn how to build an Internet of Things application that turns your data into actionable events—visual status and graphs that you can capitalize on to collect operational feedback instantaneously from your customers and improve design or build unique value business offerings based on your products. This session features SeeControl (now Fusion Connect) and Fusion Connect.

This class will introduce attendees to the Fusion Connect development platform. You will learn how to model a digital twin of your machine assets, and (using a little business logic, along with our point-and-click tools) you will learn how to build an Internet of Things application that turns your data into actionable events-visual status and graphs that you can capitalize on to collect operational feedback instantaneously from your customers and improve design, or build unique value business offerings based on your products. This session will feature Fusion Connect.

The ConTechTrio—JBKnowledge CEO James Benham, Consultant Rob McKinney, and BIM Services Consultant Josh Bone—will present ideas on how tech can mitigate risk on construction projects. They will discuss how the latest apps, hardware, and enterprise software for the construction industry are evolving to reduce project risk and increase data security. Data security should be of paramount importance to every construction firm, although most builders aren’t sure where to start. From executives to administrators, today’s business professionals find themselves contemplating the vulnerability of their data in the cloud, on the job site, and on mobile devices. The ConTechTrio will highlight the risks of cloud technology then identify the resources and best practices to manage those risks with both trusted and emerging technology. Learn the basics of converting construction processes to the cloud, and how to secure proprietary project data along the way. This session features BIM 360 Docs and AutoCAD 360. AIA Approved

This new era of technology is driving a lot of innovation in all aspects of design. All product manufacturers are embracing innovation and new technology in order to maintain or advance their current production cycles. But, incorporating new technology and innovative manufacturing practices requires a solid plan, not a wild guess. The path to innovation must start with a thorough analysis of your current process. It is not enough to say, ‘the process is inefficient,” or “new tech will solve our problems.” It is critical to properly outline and identify bottlenecks or over- and under-utilized equipment and practices. Once the process is properly defined, organizations can move beyond reaction-based decision making to predictive-based planning. In this class, we’ll demonstrate how the current Factory Design Utilities may be enhanced with ProModel Process Simulator.