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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.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Streamlining Asset Management and Progress Tracking with Forma Build and GAMMA AR
Integrating Forma Build software with GAMMA AR has significantly enhanced project traceability, improving the accuracy and credibility of progress tracking. This integration supports asset management across the entire project lifecycle, from delivery to handover. It also strengthens collaboration by connecting stakeholders through digital workflows, reducing reliance on paper, and lowering the project’s carbon footprint. GAMMA AR brings added value to BIM by enabling real-time validation of on-site work, assigning issues to responsible parties, and instantly tracking installation progress. This strategy not only boosts efficiency and productivity, but it’s also expected to reduce documentation workflow duration by up to 25%, marking a key step toward Management in construction. Since all construction documents are stored, linked, referenced, and visualized to all assets, facility manager mobilization time may be significantly reduced by 50%.
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Field: Using Autodesk Tools for Connected BIM Coordination
At LGES Project Alpha—a large-scale, fast-track battery manufacturing facility—delivering under pressure required tightly connected workflows and real-time data visibility. This case study explores how Revit software, Navisworks software, and Autodesk Forma were integrated to create a connected project ecosystem that supports Digital Prototyping development and field execution. Revit served as the foundation for BIM and Digital Prototyping modeling. Navisworks enabled clash detection and model federation. And Autodesk Forma provided a centralized platform for document control, issue tracking, and field communication. These tools streamlined coordination, accelerated decision making, and reduced rework. This session will highlight workflows that connected architects, engineers, and trade partners—showing how digital coordination created accountability and visibility across all phases. It will also cover lessons learned from managing model updates, subcontractor input, and construction sequencing in megaprojects.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Connected Coordination: Supercharging BIM with Autodesk Forma and Navisworks
Navisworks software has established itself as the industry standard for coordinating building systems with digital models. Now, the Autodesk Forma Modeling module offers tools that complement Navisworks or function as stand-alone solutions. Traditional coordination challenges—exchanging models via file sharing, manually compiling updates, and distributing clash reports without accountability tracking—are eliminated. The Autodesk Forma common data environment streamlines model updates, while its Issues feature enables assignment and tracking of coordination responsibilities. This session will demonstrate how to create a connected coordination workflow by combining the Autodesk Forma Files, Issues, and Reports with Navisworks software's customizable search sets and clash detection. Learn implementation strategies that transform coordination from siloed activities into integrated, collaborative workflows.
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98p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Streamlining Payment Workflows: Connecting Autodesk Forma with ERP Systems

We’re a Mexican general contractor with more than 60 years of experience in the industrial and vertical housing market, and five years into our Management using Autodesk Forma, we identified a major opportunity: the excessive time that construction project managers and superintendents spend weekly reviewing subcontractor payment applications. Copachisa has worked with Autodesk Forma for three years, investing heavily in the Schedule tool. Last year, our CEO challenged the virtual design and construction (VDC) and IT departments to eliminate the 600 hours typically spent during the execution phase on payment application reviews. In this class, we’ll share the Automation, Integration, & Customization we implemented to reach zero review hours. By using the data connector to link construction schedule progress with our ERP, we improved workflows and freed up our teams to focus on what truly matters: controlling and mitigating the gap between scheduled versus completed progress.

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34p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
DLF’s Journey Toward Smarter, Faster, Sharper Construction Delivery Across a 50-Million-Square-Foot Portfolio
Discover how DLF’s shift from static documents to real-time data has enabled faster decisions, tighter coordination, and smarter outcomes—setting a new benchmark for insight-led, sustainable project delivery in India. DLF is redefining construction delivery across a portfolio spanning more than 50 million square feet through one of the most significant Managements in the history of real estate in the Indian subcontinent. Powered by Autodesk Forma, DLF has connected the dots between design, execution, and intelligence by integrating 3D BIM coordination, real-time Power BI dashboards, and live APIs. This move toward paperless project sites has not only driven operational efficiency, but also contributed to a meaningful reduction in the company’s carbon footprint.
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52p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Bringing Monsters to Life in Universal’s Dark Universe: Workflows for Cross-Discipline Collaboration
This case study will follow the creation of the attraction Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment for the new theme park Universal Epic Universe. It will illustrate how Universal Creative, as both designer and owner, is using the full range of Autodesk software and Forma suite to collaborate between teams and bring to life groundbreaking attractions. Creating innovative theme park attractions necessitates the blending of disciplines. Attraction designers incorporate mechanical system animation with digital media, lighting, and visual effects using 3ds Max software—while architects and engineers design and document facility systems in Revit software to meet operational needs. During ride and show manufacturing and general construction, teams constantly monitor installation quality with reality capture methods like LiDAR using ReCap and Navisworks software, validating real-world conditions against the creative intent models and federated BIM, thereby completing the project lifecycle.
New Orleans 2022
Unleash BIM Project Data with Revit and Microsoft Power Automate

Revit 2023 software now unleashes the “project design data to business process” automation within the Microsoft ecosystem of applications using Microsoft Power Automate and Autodesk Design Exchange. Want to pass Revit data to Microsoft Power BI or other BI applications? Then attend the class to learn to create automated processes that share building information modeling (BIM) data with collaborators without having to share the entire model. This class will provide step-by-step instructions on how to create a data exchange and deliver design data to databases using Power Automate.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Construction with Integrated Digital Project Delivery: An EPC Contractor’s Approach
Tata Projects is one of the first EPC contractors in India, implementing a fully digital strategy, for delivering large-scale infrastructure projects on digital-first concepts. One of the largest airport maintenance facilities that Tata Projects is delivering on EPC mode demonstrates the power of BIM integrated with Autodesk Forma—Forma Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk Assemble, and Autodesk Insights—within a common data environment (CDE). This enhances collaboration among stakeholders, including the client, PMC, contractors, vendors, and design consultants. This talk will demonstrate how we merge engineering with construction execution, project controls, procurement, cost planning, and quantity control with real-time progress monitoring using dynamic BI dashboards—thus improving operational efficiency while reducing errors and risks. By pioneering this, we’re reimagining the construction lifecycle of a project through digitized process from inception to completion.
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Meetup / Nashville 2025
AECO Community Meetup - Workflow Wednesdays Live

Curious how your peers are accelerating project delivery and solving real-world BIM and CAD challenges? Join us for Workflow Wednesdays Live — an open, high-energy meetup where Autodesk users come together to swap tips, share wins, and get inspired. Originally launched as a weekly office hours session for AEC professionals, this meetup invites everyone to experience the community-driven format that’s helped dozens of firms build better designs, faster.
Whether you’re a BIM manager, CAD lead, or just passionate about workflow improvement, come connect with like-minded professionals facing the same goals and roadblocks. Expect organic conversations, cross-discipline ideas, and war stories from the front lines of digital project delivery — with zero slides and 100% peer value.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
No Box Required: Creatively Adapting to Client Needs Through BIM Families
This session will cover advanced techniques our BIM team uses to create customized Revit families, addressing the challenge of needing highly specific, data-rich components. You’ll learn how we use adaptive model families to ensure 2D visualization can be manipulated without affecting the 3D model, which is crucial for accurate documentation and coordination. We'll also demonstrate how these families store critical data (like location) for streamlined scheduling and legend creation. Additionally, the session will detail how we use planting templates to develop scalable families for ERP (emergency response plan) maps. This allows for easy adjustment of component size and visibility, a key factor in delivering clear and understandable security information to clients.
14p
23p
New Orleans 2022
The Red Sea Development - Leading Digital Transformation in Saudi Arabia
case study from the Red Sea Development which illustrates our journey from defining our digital delivery requirements to the construction of hotels using prefabrication and off-site manufacturing. With examples of precast volumetric apartments, laminated structural timber frames and entire villa modules assembled and shipped to site, we will share lessons learned from managing information, design models and shop drawings during the design, procurement, and construction phases for 3,000 buildings. Learn how we, as the owner, configured and implemented BIM 360 for our large scale complex projects. Our BIM processes, workflows and use of BIM 360, were awarded the BSI Kitemark for delivering projects to ISO 19650 standards. Our challenge is ensuring everyone has the knowledge and skills to participate in our digital delivery process. We will explain how we invest in education and training to onboard teams quickly, improve methods of working and increase productivity.
New Orleans 2022
Enabling Nations to Create Secure, Sustainable, and Satisfying Places with BIM
Thanks to the existence of technologies like building information modeling (BIM), Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI), there’s much that can be done to achieve a sustainable, secure, and satisfying (3S) built environment. In this session, we’ll discuss the value of having real-time digital information about our built environments in the context of the 3S approach. We’ll look at how governments can use BIM with other technologies to generate and utilize a digital twin at an urban scale, using it to support implementation of the 3S principal. We’ll look at the benefits this can offer, and analyze how it can serve humanity and enable countries to improve living standards for their communities. Smart technology has huge potential—finding the relevant applications for it to enhance society is the key. This will enable countries to deliver productive development that achieves a promising future for our nations and for future generations!
Virtual 2021
Revit MEP の設備施工への活用　実物件での事例紹介

建設業界で現在推進されているBIMにおいて、設備施工現場での実際の活用状況を紹介させていただきます。

New Orleans 2022
Build a Digital Value Chain with Revit+BiM360+SpaceIQ+Forge & its results
When considering the "building life cycle" from the viewpoint of the process importance obtained through ISO19650 certification, to construct a Building database, using BIM360 as CDE and collaborating Information of BIM stored in Revit along with SpaceIQ is required. We will share our insights collected from real project. Also some of the insights on the evolution of data platforms by leveraging SpaceIQ solutions in the design phase, while it is commonly used in the construction to operation/maintenance phases. What is the digital value chain brought by the data collaboration? The effects and future projections will be presented
New Orleans 2022
The Evolution of Roles and Progression Within BIM and Design Technology
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector has steadily integrated building information modeling (BIM) and design technology specialist roles throughout the last decade. As the market matures, how will specialization and collaborative cross-industry understanding inform the evolution of these roles, teams, and the construction industry? This talk will consider how the role of the specialist will need to evolve and diversify to encourage broader understanding and adaptability. In the session, we’ll evaluate how the current and future need for increased levels of information—simultaneously by varied stakeholders and disciplines—has driven a need and desire for enhanced communication, connection, and comprehension outside of our respective specializations. This talk will explore opportunities for individuals and teams to scale, foster efficiency, collaborate, grow international networks, and recognize the need for knowledge and data beyond the specialization of the current BIM and design technology roles.
New Orleans 2022
Women Leadership in BIM Standardization and Implementation
Khatib & Alami (K&A)'s standardization and implementation of building information modeling (BIM) has promoted staff based on merit and effectiveness, and the firm is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. The success of women colleagues is highly visible across the company’s digital services activities. Of the three streams designed in the BIM road map, two created within the BIM unit (BIM for building and BIM for infrastructure) are led by women. In the BIM development stream women are dominant, in term of effectiveness. Amira ElSaeed—our “40 Under 40” awarded star—is one of the computational design heroes, while Vijaya Venkata is leading the BIM implementation in the Bangalore office. Furthermore, the BIM coordinator community has a strong mix of genders.
New Orleans 2022
How to Implement BIM as Part of Companies’ Digital Transformation Strategies
This session will discuss how building information modeling (BIM) should fit into a company’s digital transformation strategy, drawing on the experiences and lessons learned from undertaking this exercise at multidisciplinary design consultancy Khatib & Alami (K&A). For K&A, BIM has been well-established across all types of building projects since 2011. In 2018, we developed a further road map to drive quality and consistency across all levels of the organization as part of the company’s digital transformation. This road map included assessing current staff; building a strong team of modelers, auditors, and developers to achieve an internal critical mass; implementing BIM across all four K&A design centers; and ensuring one consistent set of standards, in accordance with ISO 19650. BIM implementation has been a cornerstone of K&A’s digital transformation, and its success has established strong momentum across the wider program.
New Orleans 2022
BIM and GIS Cloud Collaboration Panel: Actionable, Connected Data Environments
Recent global impacts are changing the way infrastructure is planned, engineered, constructed, and maintained. More process participants are working remotely, teams are progressively distributed across locations, and requirements for collaborative cloud environments have dramatically increased. This has all coincided with streamlining connections between building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information system (GIS) workflows and sharing new system engagement views with more collaborators in ArcGIS GeoBIM. Although customers are benefitting from cloud-to-cloud integrations, others wonder how best to modernize their approaches in order to reduce risk, increase transparency in infrastructure asset delivery, and bridge information gaps between project participants. Come learn how teams from Arcadis, HDR, HNTB, and VolkerWessels are connecting their BIM and GIS data environments that inform stakeholders on progress, easily sharing process views of complex projects and planning sustainable business practices for teams, clients, and the asset lifecycle.
New Orleans 2022
Digital Fabrication Journey: From Rhino, to Revit, to cadwork and Back!
This session will cover a case study from The Red Sea Development to share lessons learned from the design, manufacture, and assembly of a large, complex, mass timber structure. In this session, we’ll demonstrate the best practices from the owner's perspective for defining the building information modeling (BIM) requirements and processes to ensure the success of our OSM projects. Imagine four timber-framed, double-curved, 100-foot-span roofs—designed in London, manufactured in Switzerland, shipped to Jeddah, and assembled at a remote site. We'll share our experience of evaluating BIM formats, determining preferred solutions for the interoperability between Revit software, Rhino, and cadwork to support the designers, timber manufacturing, and contractors to deliver the luxury building. Our teams used BIM 360 software for the model collaboration for review of design and coordination issues. And we learned how to maximize the tools and platform to solve complex challenges, improve our quality-control processes, and ultimately deliver the project on site.
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