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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Achieve Sustainable Development Goals with Generative Design in AEC
The current pressing issue of sustainability in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is changing the way buildings are designed and made. The basis of a sustainable project is the design and engineering principles that are used to achieve specific sustainable-development goals. But it's not always clear how we can meet sustainability goals with the use of specific technology. In this class, we'll focus on a piece of the technology landscape that Autodesk offers in the AEC industry, called Generative Design. We'll show some practical sustainable-design use cases that are solved with Generative Design in Revit software, going from architectural concept through building engineering to fabrication optimization. At the end of this session, you'll have some fresh inspiration on how to solve your own sustainable-design challenges with the use of automation and generative design methods.
105p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2014
Addressing Sustainability in Product Design and Engineering
"Sustainability" means many different things to different manufacturers. In some cases designers and engineers strive to make a product perform with greater energy efficiency. In other cases they focus on making the product easy to recycle at the end of its life or they design out restricted substances with advanced material selections. Regardless of the focus, the design and detailed-engineering phases hold many opportunities to decrease the environmental impact of a product. During this hour attendees will learn about current trends in sustainable product design and compliance, and we'll explore which are relevant to their products or product lines. Attendees will also learn how to easily apply Autodesk, Inc., tools at key points in design and engineering workflows to aid in the exploration of more sustainable design alternatives.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
Using Autodesk CFD in the AEC Industry for Sustainable Design
In this class, we will cover applications of Autodesk CFD Simulation software for sustainable design in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. You will learn how Autodesk CFD is used in the AEC design process. We will cover case studies involving the following: energy-efficient ventilation design for a large sports stadium facility; indoor thermal comfort using energy-efficient displacement ventilation for a large convention center foyer occupied by people; wind-loading analysis to simulate wind pressure and resultant structural loading on an airport façade and roof; and optimization of storm-water roof-drainage design using free surface flow. You will learn how the air flow and thermal simulations capabilities of Autodesk CFD are used to demonstrate performance for sustainable design.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Engineering a Sustainable Library with the Next Generation of Insight
The next generation of Insight in Revit 2025 software is a powerful tool for predicting carbon usage in building designs from the earliest design stages. With this highly accessible tool, anyone can participate in the process of making critical decisions regarding the sustainable design of a building. By combining Revit model data with the open-source EnergyPlus engine, fast and accurate energy calculations become easy for all Revit users. Learn how Victus Engineering, a small MEP firm in St. Paul, Minnesota, used the next generation of Insight to design a sustainable library building. From the earliest schematic design stages, Victus engineers used Insight in combination with other Revit tools like Systems Analysis to select and rightsize equipment, design sustainable systems, and drive conversations with the architect regarding the overall direction of the design. Design more-sustainable buildings, reduce carbon usage, and meet stringent sustainability goals with this powerful tool.
3p
New Orleans 2022
VDC, Design-Build, and Sustainability: The Ideal Project Lenses

The AEC industry is still undergoing a digital transformation, VDC and the design-build project delivery method are accelerating, and the path to net zero is ramping up. So, how well prepared are you to succeed in our industry's dynamic environment? Although VDC and design-build project delivery are not new concepts, they are flourishing because they maximize returns on investments in time, money, and effort while achieving sustainability. Still, many in the AEC community have not fully adopted 3D BIM and collaborative project delivery, which can greatly improve project quality and value while reducing the built world's environmental impact. Join this session to explore why the combination of VDC, design-build, and sustainable design and construction are the ideal lenses for projects. A panel of industry professionals will discuss VDC, the design-build project delivery system, sustainable strategies, innovative technologies, real-world projects, and best practices.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
Using Technology and Software to Create More-Sustainable Designs
Sustainability in construction is a complex issue. As the world becomes more environmentally focused, we’re wrestling with how to implement sustainability in practice. There are so many pieces to the sustainability puzzle, and technology like Autodesk's Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Construction Cloud software are key pieces. Buro Happold is known for its technology-forward thinking, and has long been working toward an equitable and green recovery, adapting its business to mitigate climate change and the biodiversity crisis. The firm’s vision for the future is for a regenerative ecosystem—both natural and built—that provides suitable habitats for humans and non-humans alike. In this class, we’ll consider how implementing processes, documentation, and software can help support more sustainable and environmentally friendly design, and we’ll share lessons Buro Happold has learned regarding how to effectively use technology to achieve these aims.
New Orleans 2022
Integrate Sustainability into Autodesk Fusion 360 with Makersite
It is estimated that 80% of the environmental impact is determined at the design phase. However, many designers lack the tools to assess the impact of their design choices. In addition, an increasing number of companies are setting up ambitious sustainability goals, but the data required to drive the actions are often in disparate systems throughout the organization, or kept in PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) systems, which means that designs are already locked up. Autodesk and Makersite collaborated to bring sustainability insights into early product-design phases by connecting relevant lifecycle assessment data to the Autodesk Fusion 360 Design workspace. We’ve created a more holistic workflow to provide even more insights into sustainable design, directly within the design environment. The analysis can also recommend material alternatives and provide costing information to help designers make more-sustainable decisions, faster, with greater impact.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2018
How generative design can make your product more sustainable (and help your company make more money)
Are you trying to make more and better products that have less environmental impact on the planet? Are you seeing customer demand for more environmentally friendly products? Do you have sustainability goals you’re trying to meet? We’re here to help! In this session, you’ll learn how to re-design existing products to be more sustainable and also learn about more efficient manufacturing processes that can reduce energy and material use. Starting with a baseline design, you’ll apply generative design and sustainable design principles to improve your design. You’ll also hear about various Autodesk tools that can reduce the amount of material and energy used through the manufacturing process and the product’s full lifecycle. You will realize that sustainability can drive cost reductions while adding a significant competitive advantage to your company.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Unveiling EcoDesigner: An Accessible Web App for Sustainable Product Design
Join us as we unveil EcoDesigner, a groundbreaking web app powered by SimaPro, the leading lifecycle analysis (LCA) solution. As we transition toward integrated sustainability focused on value creation, EcoDesigner stands at the forefront, enabling designers and nondesigners to access and collaborate on environmental assessments, amplifying the positive impact of their designs. By seamlessly extracting essential product data from Autodesk Fusion and Inventor software, EcoDesigner facilitates LCA calculations from any location and at any time. Discover how this tool can help you understand the carbon footprints of your designs and pinpoint areas for improvement, guiding you toward more-sustainable options. Learn how to identify hotspots for improvement and make informed eco-design decisions. This session will open new avenues in sustainable design, offering insights and practical tools to enrich your projects. Witness firsthand how EcoDesigner is revolutionizing sustainability in design.
7p
27p
Virtual 2021
Adventures in Convergence: Sustainable Design, Data & Procedural Modeling

What are new emerging methods for tackling large and complex challenges such as sustainable design? More specifically, what might happen when we combine technology from one industry and apply it to another? Further, how can designers leverage these experiments in "convergence" to inform the future of design-and-make? Inspired by an Autodesk Technology Center resident, this case study explores the sustainable implications of converging industrial design tasks with "procedural modeling" tools (a Media and Entertainment technology). This talk shares the results of both practical hands-on experiments and conceptual thinking on how procedural modeling tools could influence higher performing design decisions applied to product-design and manufacturing. Experience the convergence of industries as the Technology Centers explore what it means to continuously reshape and adapt objects to meet functional and performance requirements.

New Orleans 2022
How Can We Design Sustainability into Additive Manufacturing?
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry continues to grow, doubling in size roughly every five years. With this also comes an increasing environmental footprint. AM holds many promised environmental benefits. From lightweight parts for electric vehicles and reduced material consumption through optimized designs and flexible localized production, there’s no shortage of potential. However, many caveats remain. How do you print parts that perform better and last longer? Is the lightest part necessarily the most sustainable? How can we design not just for the printing process, but also for post processing, shipping, and the entire product lifecycle? In this class, we’ll look at design technology and case studies that will provide insight into these questions. We’ll also cover how you can start putting these technologies and workflows into practice to turn promised sustainability ideas into reality—while avoiding common pitfalls.
Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024
Become an Eco-Innovator: Harnessing Autodesk's Carbon Solutions for Sustainable Design and Manufacturing
Are you passionate about reducing your carbon footprint but find the realm of lifecycle assessment (LCA) and eco-design a bit daunting? Not sure where to start? Then this class was designed just for you! We'll guide you through an end-to-end workflow, using design and manufacturing sustainability solutions such as the Manufacturing Sustainability Insights add-on for Autodesk Fusion software, as well as SimaPro and generative design. We'll help you evaluate existing designs, identify key carbon contributors, and discover how these tools can be harnessed to design and manufacture parts with significantly minimized carbon impacts. Don't miss this chance to transform your design approach and contribute to a more sustainable future. Join us as we navigate the path to more environmentally friendly design practices together!
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Sustainable Fractal Design: Maximizing ChatGPT and BIM Energy Analysis
Join us for an exciting presentation on the intersection of ChatGPT and building information modeling (BIM) energy analysis in sustainable fractal design through the use of fractal patterns and structures in the design of buildings. Fractal architecture aims to create a functional connection between the built environment and the natural world, promoting a more sustainable and harmonious relationship between buildings and the earth's complex ecological systems. In this talk, we'll explore how machine-learning algorithms like ChatGPT can be integrated into fractal design to optimize building design for maximum energy efficiency and sustainability. We'll also discuss the potential that sustainable fractal design has to reduce a building's carbon footprint and improve indoor air quality. You'll leave with a practical understanding of how to capitalize on these innovative tools and approaches for your own building design projects
29p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Revit Process and Workflow: An Essential Guide to Sustainable Design
At the outset of a Revit project, it is crucial to define a clear process and workflow. This should encompass several key elements, such as accurately determining the building's location, shared coordinates, geodetic elevation, building design, and the materials to be represented. As we prepare to tackle the sustainability challenges of 2030 and 2050, it is imperative to integrate these factors into our workflow from the outset. Moreover, it is recommended that firms incorporate these processes and workflows into the creation of families intended for use in sustainable projects, ensuring that sustainability is woven into every aspect of the project. By doing so, we can ensure that we are setting a strong foundation for designing, constructing, and managing buildings that are in line with our sustainable goals.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2016
Session MGMT: Business Case for Sustainable Design Practices
This class will take a pragmatic approach to designing for business-sustainability win-wins. Sustainable design practices can help your business improve product performance, save money, AND reduce your products’ environmental footprints all at once. Autodesk’s tools can drive better design decisions, saving time, energy, and materials, while making our products more durable and future-proof. We’ll explore key industry trends and illustrate how Autodesk’s products can help you achieve sustainability goals, delivering results that are good for both profits and the planet.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Democratize Sustainability: Connected Data for Infrastructure Excellence
Autodesk strives to enhance its comprehensive products, empowering professionals from various fields with vast toolsets to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable future. Despite significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), keeping pace with innovation remains a challenge, especially when addressing sustainability complexities throughout design, construction, and operations. Hence, we present a framework using Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Innovyze products to help engineers and sustainability professionals identify sustainable solutions for civil infrastructure. Our solution democratizes sustainable design, construction, and operations through a live, collaborative platform solution, linking Envision Sustainability Guidelines and Principles with industry best practices and workflows. It aims to document practices, providing guidance across multiple dimensions of sustainability throughout the entire civil infrastructure project lifecycle.
37p
65p
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
The contractor and architect from the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design—which is striving for full certification of the Living Building Challenge—will explain how Autodesk tools were used during the pursuit, award, design, preconstruction, construction, and post-construction activities. They will cover lessons learned from the most interesting and challenging aspects of the project related to the high standards of regenerative design and the 20 Design Imperatives for the Living Building Challenge. The team used Revit software, Assemble software, Navisworks software, and BIM 360 software to identify and work through solutions. The presenters are not software experts; however, they are experts in project management, regenerative design and construction, and systems coordination, and they are excited to share how Autodesk software contributed to the project.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
How AI Will Solve the Most Overlooked Challenge in Sustainable Housing
An often-overlooked sustainability challenge in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is: What should we do with all existing individual houses? Current technology enables sustainable design of new houses. However, climate change cannot be addressed without tackling the existing building stock. More than 62 million single-family houses need thorough renovation if we are to fulfill the EU climate ambitions by 2050. This means tackling 6,000 houses per day, starting today—in Europe alone! We'll demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI), and generative design will support building owners and architects to quickly come up with new sustainable design options, ready for industrialized prefabrication with standardized elements. In this session, you'll learn how AI can add flexibility in the design with standardized elements. You'll find inspiration for a new balance between standardization and flexibility. We'll show applications for detached houses as well as terraced houses with complex shapes and requirements.
New Orleans 2022
Autodesk Fusion 360 Powered by SimaPro: Sustainability at the Beginning
For years, companies have been investing in sustainability initiatives like reduced energy consumption and efficient use of resources. Mostly, sustainability has been directed toward tackling process-caused environmental impacts. However, the focus must shift to a product’s components. Companies need to target sustainability in the design phase, not just in the operational phase. Whenever the design starts, sustainability must be a feature of the product and not an afterthought. Currently, there are 28 million CAD users globally, and an opportunity to capture up to 10Gton of CO2eq per year. In this talk, we’ll discuss how to empower designers to improve the environmental performances of their projects by delivering trusted sustainability insights in the context of their design tools. Find out how the SimaPro API can extract all required information using Fusion Data and Autodesk Forge APIs to calculate the environmental impact and return results to the designer in real time.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2020
BIM for Sustainability—7D
We are in a climate emergency, and urgently need to reduce our footprints. The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is the biggest violator of sustainable practices, accounting for 45% of all energy consumption and 75% of US electrical consumption. We in the AEC industry have the largest room for impact, because informed BIM (Building Information Modeling) designers can shape a better world! We will look into sustainable design practices and how to help your firm create and design better buildings by equipping your teams with the knowledge to improve efficiency from the early design phase throughout the lifecycle of the building and the whole process, utilizing BIM workflows. We will discuss the issues and why immediate action is required in the way we design to help combat the global crisis. BIM for sustainability is not only good for our planet; it is also good for business, the economy, and society as a whole. Let's do our part for a better future and integrate sustainable practices into daily workflows.
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