Contractors with subcontractor default insurance programs face ever increasing risk from varying sectors: COVID-19 recovery, recessionary concerns, and rising costs of supply and labor. Ensuring that projects are awarded to the right subcontractor is paramount to deterring potential defaults. The combination of BuildingConnected and TradeTapp has led to a 90% prequalification rate in advance of award. By working bid packages with operations, risk management can detect potential problems and mitigate in pre-award.

Navisworks 2015 project review software took a huge step forward with Quantification. This class will teach you how to create catalogs, access data properties in the model, perform 2D takeoff, create custom quantity formulas, override model quantities, and export the data to Microsoft Excel software.

In today’s competitive construction landscape, estimators are often caught in the chaos of juggling 2D drawings and 3D models across ever-changing bid packages. Long nights, rushed numbers, and missed margins are all too common. Enter Autodesk Takeoff software—a powerful, cloud-based solution on Autodesk Construction Cloud that brings clarity, accuracy, and connection to your quantification process. In this hands-on lab, you’ll experience firsthand how Takeoff transforms the way quantity takeoffs are performed. Whether you're working in 2D, 3D, or both, this class will walk you through the complete connected workflow—from setting up customized takeoff types and applying unit costs, to managing drawing revisions and comparing snapshots mid-process. By the end, you'll know how to deliver faster, smarter, and more accurate takeoffs that give your team the competitive edge in bidding.

There are many challenges and conflicting priorities for scaling model-based estimating. This presentation will discuss these challenges and the process Barton Malow Builders implemented to establish a more uniform practice and reliably deliver model-driven quantification for all our projects. We will mention how these methods need to fit with our overall estimating process, and the team adaptation that is needed. We will also cover how other innovations from Autodesk—such as Autodesk Takeoff and Autodesk Construction Cloud capabilities—can influence progress.

Join us to learn about our product strategy and all upcoming initiatives across our preconstruction solutions: BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Autodesk Takeoff, and ProEst. This is a unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap and explore new ideas about the future of preconstruction with our R&D teams.

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 Construction Cloud 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 Construction Cloud Cost Management following award of their contract.

Industrialized construction is growing rapidly in North America and globally. This session will survey current best-practices related to successful business models in offsite/industrialized construction and prefabrication including an innovative example from Ladacube, where we are seeing adoption, and digital tools that can support growth. Finally, this session will synthesize what we've learned to-date to highlight promising forward-looking practices and technologies which will enable additional growth of IC/offsite construction going forward.

We can use Autodesk Forge to develop infinite ways of customizing workflows and new features for designing, viewing, analyzing, processing, and editing 3D models. But how do we centralize these features in a single work environment? In this industry talk, VINCI will present a framework to federate Autodesk Forge-powered tools in a single environment, fostering collaboration between several sectors in the construction industry—from design engineers to field workers, passing through cost estimators and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) specialists.

This class covers the use of price lists and pricing services to update pricing within Fabrication ESTmep software. We will show how to use Harrison Pricing Service to update existing price lists, we'll examine the Product Information Editor and ID codes, and we'll look at how pricing information is linked to items in Fabrication ESTmep software. We'll also touch on some effective practices, discuss some limitations and advantages, and show you how to access the Harrison Price list and import it into Fabrication ESTmep software to update pricing.

Step into the forefront of innovation with Autodesk's preconstruction portfolio that spans across quantity takeoff, estimating, bid management, and qualification. Engage directly with our product experts as they discuss recently released functionality across our Autodesk Construction Cloud preconstruction portfolio that helps you focus on winning business, reducing risk, making sustainable choices, and protecting your bottom line. But that's not all. Get an exclusive sneak peek into the upcoming features on the road map. Products covered will include Autodesk BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Autodesk Takeoff, and ProEst software.

Construction disputes carry significant risk for all owners, operators, contractors, suppliers, consultants, and insurers. Max Abrahamson wrote, "A party to a dispute… will learn three lessons (often too late): the importance of records, the importance of records, and the importance of records." Claims and disputes are common. However legal fees and arbitration/litigation costs involved in pursuing claims can put businesses under immense financial strain. This is particularly true when records are unclear or onerous to work with. Where evidence is unclear, the time and cost involved in resolving disputes can skyrocket. Over the past decade, HKA has helped clients use digital evidence to their advantage in dispute resolution. On this journey, we've developed an understanding of best practices for architecture, engineering, and construction projects. In this session, we'll cover how to produce useful evidence using models (and Autodesk software), and we'll discuss case studies showing best practices.

The complexity of bid packages, which combine 3D models and 2D drawings, has estimators worldwide struggling to calculate accurate quantities. The added pressure of receiving updated bid packages has also caused estimators to work long hours and have sleepless nights. The result is either not winning the job or winning with little profit. This is where Autodesk Takeoff software—the cloud-based 2D and 3D QTO tool hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud—is proving to be a game changer. This lab will focus on giving attendees a hands-on experience of the connected takeoff process using the industry-leading automated 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools. You'll learn the process of setting up 3D and 2D takeoff types, adding unit cost to takeoff types, performing accurate takeoffs, updating the bid package with the new set of drawings, comparing existing snapshots to active takeoff currently in progress, and then exporting the combined 3D and 2D takeoff inventory.

This case study session will explore the benefits of using Autodesk Takeoff software to use quantification data as a design tool throughout the building design process. As architects, we often overlook the importance of quantification and cost during the early phases of design, typically generating an unwelcome dose of reality downstream, leading to rework and intensive design changes. What if we could predict with greater fidelity and confidence the cost of our design in near real time, as we're designing and progressing Revit models. This was exactly our goal with implementing Takeoff. Reviewing case study projects, we'll demonstrate how we were able to bridge the gap between design intent and project budgets—thus, allowing 3D quantification through Takeoff to guide decision making during design, promote model quality throughout production, and rally project stakeholders around the same data within a collaborative Autodesk Construction Cloud environment.

Selling complex and customized equipment is challenging at best, and creating a compelling bid package is critical to winning more business. This class will show how to use Factory Design Suite software to accelerate the creation of a build proposal, how to create compelling content, and how to create a bill of equipment required for costing the proposal.

Many of us have been creating models for our projects for some time now, but have we really been getting the most out of them? By starting our modeling process earlier we can capitalize on our models for better quantities and an overall better project. Join us as we guide you through the process of extracting quality quantities out of your models and using that data for estimating, scheduling, and production tracking. We start by sharing how we create our Revit software models for the most effective quantities that will have the greatest effect on our final design. We will also show you how to capitalize on shared parameters to sort and group takeoffs as well as track production data, and push this information in and out of the model without ever opening Revit software. Quantities should live on throughout construction and into operations in order to help us gain better insights into our projects. Using Assemble to get the most out of your quantities will surely start a revolution among your team.

This class will provide an introduction to creating custom subassemblies using the Subassembly Composer and then using these subassemblies for doing quantity takeoff for corridors using the various custom codes included in the subassembly.

This class will cover advanced item-creation techniques for those familiar with the creation of fabrication items. We will walk through a best-practice workflow using the Product Information Editor, price lists, product lists, and labor tables for creating more accurate and complete items.

As roadway construction technology advances, bridging design data to construction requirements becomes critical. Optimizing point codes in digital delivery modeling offers numerous benefits. We'll explore crafting subassemblies to unveil corridor point codes for feature line development and transitions. By employing these subassemblies, we'll demonstrate corridor visualization using point and link code styles for design analysis and surface creation. Additionally, we'll develop tailored code sets for diverse digital delivery needs like IFC, exporting attribute-rich data from corridor codes. Lastly, we'll optimize point code organization for feature lines extraction, aiding survey construction modeling and design verification.

Finding it tough to uncover the elements you want to see in Revit software? So much time is spent finding elements in your views that it can affect your ability to get work done. Through examples of common visibility problems, we can uncover the typical problems in a given view. This course will take you through the Revit Graphics hierarchy to explain the ways you can find and uncover elements throughout your model in a systematic way. Learn ways to uncover visibility issues in your model and change the behavior of the model editors and consultants for best-practice results. Understand how work sets, filters, line styles, view templates, links, and computer hardware like graphics cards can all make a difference in adjusting your model appearance. You will walk away from this course with the knowledge of how to adjust your views to see what you want with the minimal amount of troubleshooting required to save time, effort, and sanity.

If you haven't really seen Bridge Design for InfraWorks 360 software at work, then you need to attend this class. This program magically creates engineering-sensible bridges in your InfraWorks 360 software models. Not only is it amazingly cool, it is also amazingly practical and useful in the way that it provides a representation of a bridge (complete with structural members such as a deck, girders, bearings, abutments, piers, foundations, and piles) along with real numbers to assess its cost. In this class you'll learn how to create these bridges, understand what you're seeing, assess cost, and even tweak the design. You'll be surprised at what you can do, and after class you'll be chomping at the bit to get back to work to apply what you've learned.