Explore the industry trends and macro-economic conditions shaping the future of AEC technology. Learn from product and strategy leaders what Autodesk is doing to support AEC excellence and innovation, while evolving the portfolio of software your design and construction teams trust to get the job done. From desktop to cloud, from product to platform, and from CAD and BIM and into the era of AI: go in-depth in this session to see how Autodesk is transforming design, construction, and project delivery tools to better support the people, teams, and technologies that allow you to transform your businesses, and give shape to our world.

This presentation will dive into a groundbreaking case study of BRK Ambiental, Brazil's second-largest water utility, which implemented advanced automation techniques in the design of water and wastewater treatment facilities. We will explore how the use of generative design software not only streamlined the utility's infrastructure design processes, but also significantly reduced project timelines and costs, while enhancing compliance with stringent environmental regulations. Attendees will learn about the specific challenges BRK Ambiental faced, including the need for rapid design of wastewater infrastructure to meet increasing demand and compliance pressures. The session will highlight how automated design tools facilitated innovative solutions and accelerated project delivery, setting a new standard for efficiency in the water utility sector.

The cooperative approach of IPA fundamentally reforms conventional project execution at many levels with the goal of successfully realizing construction projects in terms of quality, schedules, and costs. Due to the complex user requirements and simultaneously intense time pressure, the client has opted for the integrated project delivery (IPD) method for the new laboratory building in Berlin. The new laboratory and research building is expected to be completed by 2028. A critical foundation for success is the model-based collaboration of the involved disciplines from planning and implementation. For this, interdisciplinary and process-spanning collaboration was organized and established with the suitable common data environment to efficiently design the participants' processes and automate them as much as possible.

Caltrans, in coordination with our software partners Autodesk, Trimble, and ESRI, is in the process of developing a digital geospatial ecosystem to centralize, standardize, and connect Caltrans' digital data across programs and divisions. New tools in Civil3D 2024 and Trimble Business Center have been developed and are being tested to assist with the needed data interoperability. The system aims to increase engagement, equity, innovation, integrity, pride, safety, climate action, stewardship, and efficiency by using tools of today and working with industry to develop tools of tomorrow. This Caltrans effort will support FHWA initiatives such as BIM4I to streamline data connectivity for Project Delivery and create, maintain, and provide access to a statewide digital catalog of Caltrans assets. The proposed milestones include beta testing new industry tools, creating project delivery dashboards, integrating digital as-built data from Construction's connected data environment, and developing new project delivery products such as mapping on demand and augmented reality in the field.

Working at pace, scale and complexity, the Middle East delivers iconic projects and challenges the traditional built environment. Projects are giga-sized, delivery programs accelerated, change is a constant, and standards are mixed. Diverse global delivery teams, from inception to concept through design, handover, and operations, must deal with the challenges of fast-paced delivery with many moving components to meet opening dates. Digital delivery is a must, not an option. The region is a hotbed of innovation in how we design, create, and build, integrating the best of experience from other areas and driving its own path forward. We will hear from panelists that have successfully delivered giga projects on the impact of innovation on project delivery and management, working with a broad spectrum of teams and companies at different levels of digital maturity. We'll explore information management from concept to operations, informed decision-making through the application of digital.

A detailed discussion of the energy infrastructure outlook on digital energy including its challenges and complexity highlighting the significant role of BIM and digital project delivery for energy infrastructure investments. This talk will also showcase the multi-faceted journey through BIM to asset and digital twins demonstrating how to use them for the lifecycle of operations. Attendees of this talk will leave with a few main takeaways being a better understanding of the current energy business landscape, the requirements and how to follow a similar journey. Additionally, attendees will have a basis understanding of how to develop Digital Twins for operations and utilization across the lifecycle of an asset.

Standardization is the core of any organization, to get efficient project delivery and data reuse. With the rise of advanced technologies, like AI and ML, it's even more important to have a standardized structure in place to maximize your data, both internal and external, in the most efficient way. But how can you establish this? And what are the steps you need to take to get it moving? In this class, we'll highlight how we developed tooling based on a core data structure in place. This class will give insights into what is possible with standardization and the connecting of different source systems to arrive at a single source of data insights and client delivery. We do this by using the Autodesk Platform Services APIs.

Learn how to implement Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) processes through the use of iConstruct. This class will develop the skills required to process the model from the desktop to the cloud utilizing the iConstruct Forge AWP application. Learn about the opportunities to create efficient workflows through the use of the iConstruct tool suite and how this will enable efficient Work Package management in the Forge Viewer. Learn strategies on how to optimize the model, such as changing the hierarchy of the model, data integration, status visualization, work hours, and the addition of further Work Pack attributes. Plus, see how this may integrate with BIM 360 Docs software and other project systems.

Project quality control and safety are critical to a project's success. Having access to tools to easily standardize, input, and resolve quality control and safety issues can improve utilization of such tools on a project. BIM 360 Field Management software enables teams to quickly create and implement checklists on a project based on existing templates or created from scratch. This class will provide site admins with best practices for developing various types of checklists for field management in BIM 360 Build software. Learn tips and tricks for creating effective checklist templates for designers, project engineers, contractors, and commissioning agents. Design and implement checklists not only for managing the current project process, but also for efficiently transferring collected data for project turnover to BIM 360 Ops software or other databases.

There are 12 things you should never do in Revit software—but if you do them, here’s how to fix them. Now, we know you didn’t explode a DWG in your Revit project—but somebody did, and it has to be fixed. This is one of 12 examples we will discuss in this class. Of course, we will cover strategies for how to avoid these problems, but let’s be realistic. You can’t control everything. We will dive into 12 painful mistakes made in Revit files that may drastically affect your model and production. We will even go a step further to reveal strategies for avoiding this dirty dozen, and remedies to heal if the damage has already been done. Please join us for this class as we uncover ways in which to keep your Revit model healthy.

PlanGrid has been taking the construction world by storm ever since its creation in the early 2010s. Thousands of projects throughout the world have utilized this product, and it is widely used by general contractors as well as subcontractors. This class will go through custom field workflows for PlanGrid, and will be centered around the PlanGrid mobile app. We will touch on several different field workflows that are being used in the construction industry today and how they can be performed all in PlanGrid’s mobile app. This course will go beyond the basics of PlanGrid and will enable learners to see how easy and intuitive PlanGrid is, even when performing advanced field workflows.

Join Fluor as the team highlights the company’s BIM (Building Information Modeling) journey throughout the last 10 years within the advanced technology and life science sector. Fluor has seen a dramatic shift in client expectations, EPCV demands, and subcontractor and supplier sophistication that have changed the BIM landscape in some new and exciting ways. Fluor will walk though some innovated methods the firm’s implemented to meet the challenges facing the industry. The focus will be on use of Autodesk collaboration tools such as Navisworks software and BIM 360 software to support a focused approach to client involvement; better BIM data management; and collaboration that supports an integrated project delivery (IPD) strategy to capitalize on worldwide resources. Fluor will also highlight some of the industry lean execution principles that are accomplished utilizing the BIM process, and how Fluor has focused on upfront team alignment through use of concise BIM execution plans (BEP) and alignment meetings.

Many owner/operators have recognized the value of advanced work packaging (AWP) and have seen large projects benefit from streamlined project delivery and better collaboration. This session will provide an overview of how to successfully apply AWP best practices to a portfolio of small brownfield projects. O3 Solutions powered by Forge and BIM 360 software provides an automated approach that eliminates spreadsheets and manual processes. The combined solutions address the overall AWP strategy and right-sizing AWP for each project. O3’s digital work package management solution is the first to help project teams create, update, approve, and progress work packages through their entire lifecycle—and automate the process when possible. Robust reporting and analytics keep all stakeholders informed, with real-time information from the field powering portfolio-level cross-project comparisons across contractors. Ditch manual processes on your brownfield projects and realize the benefits of scalable AWP.

The Fusion Lifecycle implementation has been finalized and your users are navigating the system—so what's next? How do you handle managing the ongoing support requirements and demands from your users for new features or issues? Whether this is a new or mature tenant, ignoring and remaining complacent in acknowledging and managing those requests for support may lead to adoption challenges and grievances with the system. In this class, we will cover the creation and administration of such a process, and share lessons learned from case studies on how this process is working for customer tenants today.

In August 2015, Arkansas Children's, Inc. announced plans to build a freestanding children's hospital in Springdale, Arkansas. The new building, Arkansas Children's Northwest, will include 235,000 square feet of inpatient beds, emergency care, diagnostic services and clinical space. The hospital's construction and facilities team assembled a detailed set of data specifications to streamline the handover of the building and jumpstart operations & maintenance. The goal was to have all equipment data populated in the CMMS (maintenance management system) by substantial completion in the fall of 2017, to allow for critical maintenance processes to be in place prior to completion. To realize that vision, TME led an initiative to drive the successful transition and handover of asset data before the end of the project. This presentation walks through the planning, design, and construction phases of the project as well as the beginning of operations.

Mark Mergenschroer, BIM Application Specialist, Bernhard TME

Mark has 21 years of construction and engineering design experience. He has played a key role in the implementation of Autodesk BIM tools at Bernhard TME.Mark has shared his BIM knowledge at events such as Autodesk University, BIM Forum, ASHE, AHA, ASHRAE, FIATECH and numerous Revit User Groups.Mark got his start in the industry as a fire sprinkler designer. Mark has been leading the BIM Services Group at Bernhard TME. This group focuses on project delivery for the building lifecycle. Mark is also an adjunct Professor at Arizona State University and was involved with the development of the VLC Collaboration Space at Arizona State University and lectures on the subject of Building Startup and Commissioning using BIM tools.

While the advent of building information modeling (BIM) brought the promise of common ways of working, joined up delivery teams, and connected data sets, it also introduced a new language, complex standards, and siloed BIM experts. These have since been wrapped into an international standard in the form of the ISO 19650 suite. While ISO 19650 has been in place for a number of years, uptake has been mostly seen in our London office. But recently, we've seen it emerge in our U.S. studios. This class will explain the fundamentals of ISO 19650; explore what it means to owner, designer, and constructor; and discuss how to align with a strategic and pragmatic approach rather than mandating verbatim. Having led project BIM processes for well over a decade, Perkins&Will has gained insight, experience, and understanding regarding what does and doesn't work for a range of clients across different sectors. This class will leave you armed with a firm knowledge of what is important when adopting ISO 19650 without needing endless added hours to ensure alignment.

With Revit software and Advance Steel software, structural engineers have tools available to enable them to take their designs past construction documents and into fabrication and construction. Construction schedules are faster, integrated project delivery is more common, and the Who, How, and When of structural shops drawings and fabrication models are changing. This presentation will show how US-based structural engineers who already create their design models and drawings with Revit software can use this same software to create shops drawings from their fabrication models for rebar, precast, and structural steel, and also create concrete lift drawings. Attendees will learn why these services are offered, how engineers can offer them, and best practices to follow to offer Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based structural shop drawings. This session features Revit Structure and Advance Steel. AIA Approved

Increasing demand for digitally integrated design and execution in the building and construction industry places great demands on the establishment of data environments. Processes and organizational measures must be established that support project execution, where data loss is avoided, where the entire project lifecycle is considered, and where it can be monitored and analyzed directly from models. At the same time, customers and partners want to follow the project development to a greater extent on a transparent data platform in new forms of collaboration, such as alliance and integrated project delivery (IPD). Add to this the fact that automation is to a greater extent a crucial competitive parameter and an important factor in reaching project deadlines. This presentation describes how a project can be established organizationally and digitally to achieve a high degree of seamless collaboration across disciplines, companies, and software. It also describes some of the digital solutions that have been established, as well as some ambitions for where the project is going for the next seven years. The article is based on the Fornebubanen, which is a multidisciplinary project with 52 disciplines and a construction budget of just more than 1.6 billion Euros. The goal is to have the most information such as bills of quantities, commercial requirements, CO2 imprints, classification, and operation and maintenance information linked directly to the models. These models are combined into several coordination models for a holistic and multidisciplinary representation of the total digital project. Processes, quality assurance, ICE (simultaneous design or "integrated concurrent engineering"), design reviews, tender basis, and execution basis are all based on the project's digital 3D information models. These collaboration models are produced as geographic information system (GIS) models for overall understanding and as technical collaboration models for issue handling and technical assessments and communication. Gamification and a digital asset model will be presented to the stage it has been developed.

Uniformity is becoming more important and is still an elusive concept for many. We will outline this issue and mention the importance of consistent output. This seminar will cover how you can create and adopt efficient workflows for your project(s) and company. Make sure you are up to date with technology and innovation and discover how important active research is for a business. Discover a path that ensures you and/or your company is not a follower but rather a leader, making a positive contribution to improving the industry standards. This seminar is relevant to anyone, from engineer and technician to management, and all others who are interested. A structural background may be beneficial but is not required, as we cover software such as Revit software, Advance Steel software, and BIM Docs 360 software and their interaction in practice through case studies.

This class will encompass the journey for BIM (Building Information Modeling) managers from the inception of the BIM execution plan and through the various phases of construction. The case studies will illustrate the skills that project managers need to develop and implement an execution plan across a project. The class will showcase the development of DEP based on AIA and other standards. We will discuss in detail the design development and construction document phases of the project to define the processes that BIM managers can use to excel on projects. The class will showcase case studies from projects across the United States, Europe, and Singapore, and examine how the BIM journey across a project can be excelled. This class is a great resource that can give all BIM managers and designers the opportunity to learn from real-life projects across the globe.