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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings

Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

AECO Roadmap: Digital Workplaces

Digital Workplaces are evolving—from structured asset handover to real-time operational insight and, insightful operations. In this session, the Tandem team will walk through the next phase of their roadmap, highlighting how Tandem is transforming Digital Workplaces into actionable tools for building owners, operators, and project teams. Learn how recent enhancements are enabling Insightful Operations through curated dashboards, KPI tracking, and system integrations—and what’s coming next to support portfolio-wide optimization. Whether you're delivering a Descriptive Twin or planning for predictive analytics, this session will help you stay ahead of where Digital Workplaces are headed.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

23p

Panel / Nashville 2025

Breaking Down Silos in

One of the biggest challenges in is getting disciplines to work together, sharing data and information in real time. Whether technical, organizational, or cultural, silos slow progress, create inefficiencies, and keep teams from reaching their full potential. This panel brings together industry leaders who are actively climbing that mountain. Through candid conversation, they’ll share real-world struggles, setbacks, and the steps they’re taking to reach higher ground. Expect honest insights, bold ideas, and practical strategies to break down barriers, improve communication, and build stronger, more connected teams. If you’re navigating the uphill journey of , this session is your chance to pause, gain perspective, and gather the tools needed to keep moving forward together.

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 / San Diego 2024

UAE Construction Giant goes Green with Forma Build on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a nation known for its architectural marvels and ambitious projects, is facing a crucial turning point. Sustainability is becoming a top priority as the country strives to reduce its environmental impact and build a greener future. Learn how a construction giant leads the charge by embracing ACC as it's common data environment for document management, filed processes and quality control to achieve this goal. This session explores how to leverage ACC platform, to go green and build more sustainable structures, it will help attendees build new skills, implement new workflows, and learn how to use ACC Docs and ACC Build products both downstream with their subcontractors and upstream with clients and consultants.

37p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Streamlining MEP Sustainability Analysis Through Power BI and the Forma Model Viewer

For too long, the environmental impact of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems has been underestimated, especially compared to structural and architectural elements. However, case studies, particularly those involving industrial buildings, reveal a significant impact. Unfortunately, most off-the-shelf lifecycle analysis (LCA) solutions don't address MEP. As a global leader in design and consulting services, Jacobs is here to change that. We've developed and built a custom Power BI visual. This innovative tool pulls both models and their associated metadata directly into Power BI. Our LCA experts then took things a step further. They developed calculations that convert the extracted data on quantities, dimensions, and materials into measurable global warming impacts. The result? Powerful LCA dashboards with clear model visuals. These tools empower our engineers and clients to make data-driven decisions that minimize the global warming impact of their designs.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Change Won't Happen If We Wait For Someone Else, So Let's Make The Digital Twin Future A Reality, TOGETHER!

Hazen has a strong vision for digital twin technology in the Water industry and we have multiple projects and clients where we are pushing this narrative. From HRSD SWIFT Research Facility with Revit and GeoBIM integration, to Aurora Water BIM-based digital twin project using Autodesk Tandem, and several other large greenfield projects where Hazen is using ACC Design, Build, and Operate solutions. We focus heavily on asset management and operational user cases with high impact and credible visuals, client feedback, and clear values. This also includes our virtual digital twin in Tandem that uses Postman to stream SCADA-type data to Tandem Connect and Tandem Streams to show the future of Tandem, and Info360 Plant for process modeling and analysis for a new greenfield project integrated with Tandem and all things ACC. We will tell the story of why Hazen is putting our name out there for these Autodesk tools and demonstrate why we feel they are important to the future of protecting water.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Accelerating high-tech project start. Discover how a general contractor leverages cutting-edge tools for rapid mobilization.

Immerse yourself in the inspiring world of integrated high-tech factory planning at Exyte. Learn how groundbreaking Dynamo automation and advanced BIM technologies are revolutionizing the efficiency and quality of project setups. In this AU course, you'll learn how large project teams can use automated Dynamo scripts to quickly create Revit setups, configure detailed IFC file export and exchange, and meet even the most demanding customer requirements. All seamlessly integrated with collaboration on the Autodesk Forma (Forma) platform. This automation greatly simplifies and accelerates project mobilization and ensures seamless collaboration between the in-house engineering team and partners. Learn how Exyte leverages technology innovations to deliver Digital Twin-enabled models to their customers, empowering the entire project team of 60+ designers to efficiently and effectively engage in project execution from the first moment and redefine high-tech facility design.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Discover How BHI Enhanced Project Collaboration and Sustainability with Matterport and Forma

This session will showcase how BHI implemented the Matterport and Autodesk Forma integration in a master planning project for a hospital in partnership with African Mission Healthcare (AMH) to transform its traditional construction workflows with the goal of enhancing collaboration, productivity, project management, and sustainability throughout the lifecycle of development. From capturing detailed 3D scans with Matterport's digital-twin platform to streamlining documentation and issue tracking via Autodesk's robust construction project management solution, attendees will learn about the strategic advantages of this integration.

43p

Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024

Preconstruction Lab: Estimating in ProEst Using Historic Data from Forma Cost Management

Got cost data from your active construction projects? Join us for an experience designed to demonstrate one of many ways to put it to work using Autodesk construction products. We have created for you in this hands-on lab a database of historic unit costs harvested from "your" Autodesk Forma Cost Management instance. Using ProEst, each attendee will be guided through use of the basic tools needed to build their first estimate. Lastly, each estimator will learn how their estimate can be sent over to Autodesk Forma Cost Management following award of their contract.

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Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Efficiency Elevated: Automating Clash Detection for Seamless Collaboration Between Architects and Structural Engineers in Forma

In the fast-paced world of construction, optimizing collaboration and streamlining workflows are essential for project success. This course will focus on using the power of automation within Autodesk Forma to elevate efficiency in clash detection, facilitating seamless collaboration between architects and structural engineers. Participants will embark on a journey to master the art of automated clash detection, using the powerful tools and features available in Autodesk Forma. Through this session, attendees will learn how to harness automation to swiftly identify clashes between architectural and structural elements.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Revolutionize Your Civil Projects: An Forma Blueprint for Effective Civil 3D Collaboration

We will take you through Verkís's journey of transitioning its Civil 3D project at Keflavík International Airport to Autodesk Forma. This presentation will serve as a comprehensive manual for managing Civil 3D projects in the cloud. We'll explore the specifics of how Verkís orchestrated its project folder structure, and we'll look at the bridges the company recommends establishing between your Autodesk Forma and that of your clients. We will share Verkís's experiences with Desktop Connector, explain how data shortcuts function in a cloud environment, and demonstrate how you can maximize the potential of Sheet Set Manager to improve drawing production. Additionally, we'll discuss strategies for managing review processes, as well as project deliveries. Whether you're considering moving your Civil 3D projects to Autodesk Forma but are uncertain about what to anticipate, or you've begun the process but became overwhelmed and unsure about the optimal way to organize your cloud projects, this session was designed for you.

54p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

ACC Cloud Publishing 101: Strategies for Success and Mistakes to Avoid

Embark on an insightful journey into the do's and don'ts of publishing on Autodesk Forma (ACC), covering the entire process from Docs to Design Collaboration to Model Coordination. From creating and managing project documentation to collaborating with design teams and coordinating models effectively, we'll cover it all. You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the ACC publishing workflow, including the importance of Publish Sets in organizing and managing your project data. Whether you're a seasoned ACC user or new to the platform, this session is designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to optimize your publishing efforts on ACC. By the end of the session, you'll have a clear roadmap for success in ACC publishing, equipped with actionable strategies to streamline your workflow, enhance collaboration, and ensure the integrity of your project data. Don't miss this opportunity to master ACC publishing and elevate your design projects.

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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

AR and Autodesk Forma: Powering $9B Project Excellence

What if we could build a complex project right the first time without any errors? Join us for an insightful session delving into the impact of Engineering Grade AR™ in the construction industry. Discover how AR technology enables real-time issue detection and superior project controls, safeguarding projects from costly errors, clashes, and design deviations before they escalate. Over half of construction project owners face underperforming projects. This session will highlight the impact of AR in construction, with a focus placed on project controls. During the session, we'll dive into how issue detection integrates seamlessly with Autodesk Forma, streamlining collaboration between onsite teams and office personnel, allowing for precise task assignment and issue resolution. Attendees will learn how AR is being used to collect real-time project data through advanced 3D modeling, delivering up to 9X ROI on mission critical projects.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Automating Autodesk Forma Admin: Closing the Gap Between What We Have and What We Need

Daily administration of Autodesk Forma can be a time-consuming and complex task that requires constant attention. Managing projects and ensuring security is essential to the success of any organization, but it can also be a significant barrier to efficiency. With Autodesk Platform Services there are ways to mitigate these challenges. SSOE Group has developed streamlined automations and integrations between Autodesk Forma, ERP, and other software. In doing so, we've extended the capabilities of Autodesk Forma, enhanced our productivity, and improved our user experience. Learn how SSOE is automating routine tasks—such as project creation, user management, access control, and reporting—to free up valuable time and resources that can be devoted to other critical tasks. To date, SSOE has automated the creation of 3,000+ BIM 360 and Autodesk Forma projects, and our custom search engine has been used to find and access Autodesk Forma projects 200,000+ times.

New Orleans 2022

A True Common Data Environment by Integrating Platforms with Autodesk Forma Connect

Come and learn about a real-client-focused common data ecosystem. Our vision is that we can give our clients seamless access to their project data at any given time. By adding a secure yet open integration layer that continuously integrates between our and the client’s common data environments, the data is centralized yet supported on the best applicable platform. Our clients can work in their own environments, which integrate into our platform. From this presentation, you’ll learn from our journey, integrating the internal BAM systems into one so our employees can quickly access, use, and reuse the information. Whether it's referenced information in data archives, open data sources outside, or otherwise, our employees should be able to easily find and reuse it. With Autodesk Forma Connect and Autodesk Forge, we created the ecosystem so clients can always have access to the right data at the right time in their own systems. It’s an ISO 19650-compliant solution that enhances quality for our clients.

New Orleans 2022

"Connect the Dots in Cloud" to Understand AutoCAD Integration with Autodesk Forma

In this class, we’ll introduce you to connected workflows between AutoCAD software and Autodesk Forma. You’ll see a detailed walk-through on reference drawings and their relationships within Forma Data Management. Learn how users can maximize the full potential of Desktop Connector to validate reference files, maintain associativity, and establish versioning of drawing files in Forma Data Management. Then, we’ll introduce the integration of the file-locking feature into AutoCAD and see its benefits while sharing drawings through projects in Autodesk Forma. We’ll share some best practices in terms of handling drawing file operations within AutoCAD for cloud-based storage. Finally, we’ll wrap up with some key tools that will enable you to collaborate efficiently and increase productivity through Autodesk Cloud Services.

New Orleans 2022

Adopt BIM360/Forma in 4 companies using innovative change management methods

Effective cultural and organizational change adoption has become a core competency for firms, in today’s rapidly changing AEC industry. Within VolkerWessels Infrastructure we drive digital transformation to our 4 divisions with a central digital program. In this class we will show how we used a proven changemanagement methodology in a specific adoption approach, in order to implement and adopt BIM360/Forma as a new cloud platform. The adoption approach is based on ADKAR, a changemanagement methodology by Prosci. This enables us to pay attention to communication, sponsors, resistance, instructions, coaching and the return on investment of the change. The effect is digital transformation, improved operational excellence and more 'bang for buck' from IT investments, in Cloud technology like BIM360/Forma. This make change and adoption one of our core competencies. We adopted BIM360/Forma efficiently and successfully in our organization by increasing the aspects of ADKAR to the target audience.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Minimizing construction risk through parametric tunnel design with Revit and Forma

This session presents a real-world tunnel infrastructure project that leveraged parametric design to reduce construction risk and improve coordination. A parametric adaptive ring family, developed in collaboration with Autodesk, served as the base for a modular tunnel model in Revit. Using Dynamo, both primary and secondary structures were generated, and system layouts were added for space proofing. The model was then integrated into Autodesk Forma to support cross-disciplinary collaboration between structure, MEP, and design teams. This connected workflow improved communication, reduced errors, and supported earlier decision-making. Attendees will discover a scalable strategy for managing complexity in linear infrastructure projects and see how parametric design helps create robust, coordinated models ready for execution.

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