Are you a glutton for the perfect CAD/BIM standard? Do you lust after other CAD/BIM managers who have the authority to get things done? Do project teams become greedy about their own standards, wrathfully rejecting the standardized and more efficient ways you proudly implement? You need not despair. This class will focus on ways to put yourself into the enviable position of having users who listen to you. Combining more than two decades of CAD, BIM, and IT support and management experience, plus years of working with numerous companies to help support their technical managers and staff, we will discuss the things nobody likes to talk about—the sins CAD and BIM managers commit while doing their jobs. What sins might you be guilty of, and what’s the path to righteousness? Join this session to learn some of the common pitfalls, missteps, and misconceptions that come with the job, and uncover why they happen, and learn how to avoid them.

Building owners want to take rich data collected from BIM and put it directly to work managing space, assets, and maintenance. AEC professionals want to deliver their carefully-developed BIM data in a form that is immediately useful for building operations. Yet discussions around commissioning this information for lifecycle use can sound complex and daunting. This session demystifies BIM Execution Planning for the most important “BIM to FM” use cases – namely managing space and maintenance. The session walks through real world workflows, entities and object properties needed for professional facilities management. Demonstration sequences illustrate how to extend the usability of AutoCAD drawings and Revit models designed for construction, to easily flow hundreds of spaces and assets to FM management software, and begin getting immediate results.

Don't miss this exclusive architecture, engineering, and construction breakfast where the 2017 AEC Excellence Awards winners will be announced and celebrated. Special guest presentations from industry experts and thought leaders will explore these innovative projects and how BIM plays a key role. Breakfast will be provided.

Start your Autodesk University week off right! For the first time ever at Autodesk University, we’ll have our own construction mainstage (well, a baby one). And the all-star lineup just keeps getting better. Hosted by Stacy Scopano, this 90-minute session will offer a fresh look at the issues dominating construction, and the future trends that will transform the industry, including Building Information Modeling (BIM), lean construction, collaboration, mobility, and more. Additionally, hear directly from your peers as they highlight the ways they have made their Autodesk Solutions work best for them. Finally, start the week pointed in the right direction with a quick overview of key construction-related events, classes, and ad-hoc sessions to help you get the most out of this year’s AU. Speakers include: Jim Lynch, Vice President of the AEC product group; Ryan Colker, Presidential Advisor at the National Institute of Building Sciences; Andrew Pryke, Managing Director of BAM Design; Brian Mullins, CEO, DAQRI; Joe Barr, CEO, Hansen Yuncken; and Nicolas Fonta, Product Manager, Design Animation Solutions Group.

Lean has been around a long time in manufacturing. In recent years, it's gained a lot of traction in construction. However, the methodologies and tools used by lean practitioners are relevant in almost any field. In this session, we'll discuss lean, and how the various concepts and tools can apply to technology. Using lean tools will help you provide a more powerful and stable technology and computing environment for your users. Note: While explained in this class, this is not a session on the more widely known concepts of Scrum and Agile in technology. Rather, we will discuss other lean methodologies not often linked to technology. AIA Approved

This session will cover a case study on how the move to Revit software helps you win more business. During this presentation, we'll look at how Scott Hughes Design in the United Kingdom implemented Revit for structural detailing. A key driver in the successful implementation was the switch from 2D reinforcement detailing to supplying a fully compliant Building Information Modeling (BIM) model as part of client deliverables. With an overview of successful key milestones and strategies utilized, we'll identity the key workflows adopted that helped Scott Hughes retain and win business again and again.

As a result of population growth in developing countries, informal housing has increased significantly. This affects a series of large-scale issues, such as access to water, electricity, and especially a safe environment. In addition, materials and construction practices used in the construction of informal settlements are not always adequate, leading to unsafe structures that are extremely vulnerable to disasters. Among the possible solutions to this global issue, the more sustainable one is the retrofitting of existing buildings to increase disaster resistance. However, considering the magnitude of potentially dangerous houses, the only cost- and time-efficient method to retrofit would be automation. With this in mind, Build Change has designed a workflow based on BIM (Building Information Modeling) tools that reduces data-collection and design time from days to hours. In this class, we’ll describe the strategies used to automate structural designs using Dynamo in a BIM-oriented environment.

Frustrated with getting Revit data to a third-party load software for load calculations? Tired of fumbling with engineering schematics and the lack of connectivity to 3D Revit software’s elements? By combining Dynamo software with Revit software’s new Systems Analysis, your project can get off and running quickly while establishing a solid foundation for project health throughout the life of the project. See how reliable energy models can quickly be set up and ran using EnergyPlus directly in the Revit environment. Then witness how computational design can document the systems with 2D schematics, place 3D Revit elements, and build connections to build a true integrated intelligent model. This class will get you inspired to explore new workflows, and it will provide a basic introduction to the Revit Systems Analysis features, and show the potential for powerful computational workflows for mechanical engineers.

Over the last decade Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become an integral part of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing industry, and it is now becoming the most common method of designing buildings. This course looks at the best practices of Revit software design for a team/company environment. We will explore strategies, including the design stages of a project and how to align your team's efforts to most effectively approach the task at hand. We will also look at techniques to enhance your design capabilities, including how to effectively create families and view templates to represent essential information while not overcomplicating your model. We will also discuss how to design and coordinate building systems between project teams. Finally, we will look at trends in Revit software and BIM and discuss how they will change the architecture/engineering industry. Through this you will gain market insight into how to effectively convey the benefits of using BIM design to clients and contractors, and you'll learn how to set your company up for future success.

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a process, and understanding the process and managing it accordingly is the key to successful BIM implementation. But how do you measure the development of an intelligent model? Do you have methods in place to understand when the potential for issues on your models occur? The best way to accomplish this is through diagnostic tools that alert users when certain predefined rules are broken or limits are exceeded. In this session, we will present the lessons we learned through the development of the “BIM View” tool—a macro-based, model health-check solution—combined with a web-based dashboard to visualize the quality and performance of all our Revit models. Learn what worked and what did not and why we replaced Dynamo with a macro-based solution, and replaced Microsoft Power BI with a combination of Vue.js and Data Driven Documents (D3.js), gathering data directly from all our active projects and pushing it into a web-based dashboard to proactively manage all our models.

Nobody’s perfect. We all acknowledge it, and we are often reminded when problems with our Revit software files come up. Everyone has a list of “low hanging fruit” that they turn to when troubleshooting a project. For example, are things on the right workset? Has another file format been imported and exploded? Are the phases consistent between links? What if we could check these things before the problems arose—like that annual checkup we get at the doctor’s office? We’ve worked to create a fitness check system for all of our discipline models. In this session, we’ll use Microsoft PowerPoint slides and live examples to show Building Information Modeling (BIM) coordinators/managers and modeling leads how to use the tools we’ve developed to track and report the general health of project models. We’ll also explore the ways to share this information with a project team to identify potential problems before they occur, and encourage people to be more proactive when putting together their projects. This session features Revit. AIA Approved

The cost of a project is directly related to the schedule. How many work hours are required for each step? How will design changes and delays impact the cost? Meanwhile, there is continued pressure to consolidate schedules from owners and general contractors. This workshop will explore how estimating and scheduling can be further integrated within your project team to ensure costs are accurate, while capitalizing on the latest 5D BIM, project controls, risk analysis, and CPM methods. Additionally, we will present a case study for logistics tracking using equipment sets on various platforms assisted by Dynamo. We will show design changes in the comparison modes. And we will discuss automated location-based takeoffs and customized reporting templates. Related software involved in this presentation are Revit software, AutoCAD software, Dynamo, BIM 360 Glue software, BIM 360 Field software, Navisworks software, VICO, Assemble Systems, MSP, Primavera `P6, and Rhino.

"IoT sensors and smart devices are all around. BIM is all around. Why not marry BIM with IoT - and create the next generation powerful disruptive Digital Twins for a better today and tomorrow? Digital Twin is the Living Model with dynamics/functionality. It's the virtual representation of spaces, objects, smart devices and sensors binding in a single place to view the live updates, to perform analytics and simulations, and to create predictions for better decision making and predictive maintenance. Digital Twins are one of the top—and most discussed—industry disruptive technologies. Combining the power of BIM using Forge with IoT devices using Azure Digital twin/IoT services will create the digital twin that can help in multiple ways. This class will introduce the basics of Digital Twin and its applications and then talk about how to bring Forge and Azure APIs together to make a digital twin web application that can showcase live data and analytics."

This class introduces a proven Building Information Modeling (BIM) strategy and deployment methodology for people, process, and technology at CADRG, a large design enterprise. Already a renowned architectural design institute in China, CADRG has made a big effort since 2009 to mobilize its 8,000 professionals and become a leading player in the BIM domain. CADRG has found ways to popularize BIM after 5 years practice and is aiming to deploy BIM across its entire enterprise for design production in the next 5 to 8 years. CADRG believes the experience will influence and drive BIM adoption in other large design firms, especially those in emerging areas such as China. Four projects show how market challenges, kickoff BIM initiatives, project staffing, incentive measurement, calculation of the ROI of human resources, collaboration with the owner and other stakeholders, understanding construction from a design perspective, BIM software localization, and other issues were addressed.

Drastically accelerate your ability to get accurate material takeoffs. By using UNIFI, Revit software, Assemble Systems, and Microsoft Power BI, we’ve developed a workflow to easily generate accurate, timely BIM (Building Information Modeling) quantity takeoffs that can be shared with the entire project team. The workflow greatly reduces the time spent to complete an initial quantity takeoff. Project updates can easily be captured at major milestones and instantly updated to a Power BI dashboard, where the entire project team can access the data. By using a combination of Assemble Systems and Power BI, the estimating and project team can easily see and understand the location of the quantities that are being generated, and how those quantities are impacting the cost of the project throughout the lifecycle of the project design. In addition, this information is more easily accessible via web-hosted solutions.

This class will cover the importance of having an organized hierarchy of MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) objects ready to be integrated with an asset management application, along with all the necessary attributes that should be included when a project reaches the procurement phase. We will step through the process of organizing the building asset into 4 major MEP disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Special Equipment), and how it is structured into different categories, types, groups, and codes, along with addressing the importance of defining systems and services. This session features Revit MEP and BIM 360 Field. AIA Approved

During the construction process, general contractors and trade contractors work together every day in many ways to get the job done. One way these groups commonly work together to plan projects is through the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and 3D coordination. Holder Construction Company, a general contractor, and McKenney's, Inc., a mechanical contractor, have had a working relationship for many years and have built many projects together. In this time we’ve watched BIM become an integral part of the construction process. In this presentation we would like to explore the different ways we approach coordination, the tools we use, how this relationship has changed over the years, and how we expect it to change in the future. Please also consider joining us for a related roundtable discussion to share your views and experiences.

In this lecture you will learn about the exciting new features in Revit Architecture 2016 software. Discover new concepts of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and efficient, easy-to-use tools for parametric design and documentation.

Revit Structure software provides tools for modeling 3D concrete reinforcement in an advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) environment. This class provides insight into how to use these tools in the best way for creating complete, detailed, and accurate reinforcement design. Learn how to use the standard reinforcement modeling, drawing, and scheduling tools. Discover the possibilities in using Adaptive Components for complex concrete forms and post tensions tendons. Get new ideas on using 3D models in reinforcement construction, at the expense of drawings. If you believe in a future where engineers, contractors, and fabricators communicate reinforcement design using the most intuitive way possible yet—the visual 3-dimensional representation of the future—then this class is for you!