Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) will be managing the expansion of its Transmission Infrastructure to meet carbon net zero and growth in offshore wind generation by 2030, with an expected annual project spend of £1 billion. With growing demands on resources and a goal to save £250 million by 2026, SSEN partnered with Mott MacDonald to develop a practical approach for substation design using Autodesk Construction Cloud and the Autodesk suite of tools. While the traditional methods were fit for purpose, we needed to minimize data loss between project stages, enhance collaboration, and optimize the productivity of the workforce. Adoption of this workflow led to a 30% time savings in the early design phase and improved transfer of project data during detail design. And it provided tangible insights for process improvement and business decisions. The result is a workflow that's scalable and can be adopted across different organizations looking for transformational change to their infrastructure delivery.

Modern substation control systems use many intelligent devices that often have multiple communications paths to be managed. Do your protection and control engineers design this or do you have a dedicated telecom team? What software is used for that design? How are your workflows coordinated? Join us and discuss these and more topics related to the use of telecommunications circuits within (and between) electrical substations.

In this session, we'll explore how building information modeling (BIM) automation techniques have been used to create 15,000+ generative designs for critical water and power infrastructure projects using Revit software. You will learn which tools are available for design automation efforts, including generative algorithms and artificial intelligence, and how these techniques plus Revit are helping owners and engineers automatically assess the most climate-resilient infrastructure options in the preliminary design phase of projects. We'll showcase specific examples of how Revit is being used to serve underrepresented communities in Brazil that are most impacted by climate change—focusing on the automatic generation of embedded carbon calculation documentation, CAPEX/OPEX tables, 3D models, and more, for wastewater treatment plants and electrical substations.

Come to this session to build on your existing InfraWorks knowledge and get more value from your Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. Learn how you can take advantage of the new Esri Data Connector in InfraWorks to visualize geographic information system (GIS) shape information from connected Esri databases. Learn new creative ways to use InfraWorks styles and theming to present geospatial information to stakeholders and the public. Where does the Esri Data Connector get data? How is it accessed for use within your organization? What can you do with it once you’ve got it? You might be a city planner, designer, technician, or civil engineer working on a proposed capital improvement project. You might be a private industry land developer, or land-use planner, or civil designer getting ready to locate a new commercial or residential development. You could be planning a mine or an electrical substation. See new possibilities for cost-effective efficiency in the feasibility, design, and engineering phases of development.

In this class, you learn to create standard (plates) circuits in AutoCAD Electrical software for substations. We cover how to use options in AutoCAD Electrical to insert blocks of standards to complete substation design in a quick, standard, and accurate way. We demonstrate the linking of parts in an assembled circuit, how to add options in a timely manner, and complete your design using all the tools that AutoCAD Electrical has to offer.

This class shows how after you create an electrical design in AutoCAD® Utility Design software, you also need to create a single-line circuit design using dynamic blocks and linetypes to provide visual connectivity for utility crews to use while installing the equipment associated with the design. A single-line drawing provides the best detail in the energizing/installation process at the equipment level and shows connectivity all the way back to the substation. When an overhead pole is designed with TV/telephone/primary/secondary, you can create the service risers attached to the pole using riser details and dynamically place them in the model space design. These features save time by enabling crews to know in which quadrant the customer or crews are to install the risers.

In this class, we show how we used Navisworks® Manage software and Microsoft® Project to combine a substation project schedule and a 3D substation Inventor® software model to help visualize and adjust the construction of a station.

In this class, we use Inventor® software to demonstrate techniques to combine a 3D substation project model and component pricing, extract bill of materials (BOM) information, and help estimate station costs.

This session will be an overview of modular standards development, structure of substation models, and history of standards at Southern Company. This session features Inventor Professional.

Meet with electric utility industry peers to discuss the intricacies of substation design. Find out how other utilities are using design resources. Compare workflows. Share successes, failures and challenges. Benefit from others' experience. Share ideas for improving processes. The more knowledge we have, the better we can design substations.

In this class, we examine substation assemblies and models for a utility. We also look into the lifecycle for substation parts in Vault Professional software. We cover the use of Items to keep track of information, such as purchase price, basic impulse level (BIL), operating voltage, specification information, and more. We discuss how to work in Inventor software and how to use the released bias or non-released bias to an assembly for insertion into your model. Finally, we examine how to keep track of legacy designs and greenfield designs in a standard format.

Learn how to capitalize on BIM 360 Field software for substation projects, managing assets and collaborating with field construction crews. This session features BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue.

In this class you'll learn about the importance of having and utilizing a catalog of standard assemblies in order to build a substation in Inventor software.

There are approximately 3200 electric utilities in the United States. Each utility has their own standards, procedures, workflows, and more for designing substations. To solve the overwhelming task of automating substation design to fit each utility's specific situation, Autodesk and AutomationForce partnered to develop the Substation Design Suite, an add-in for Inventor software and AutoCAD Electrical software. This class describes Nashville Electric Service's (NES) experience in adapting these software packages for their unique work processes. The class includes discussion of the challenges NES faced in the beginning, the pros and cons of using provided content versus creating customized content and provides examples of customizing Substation Design Suite content and templates in Inventor and adapting AutoCAD Electrical to meet specific design requirements.

Become an adopted member of our design team for the session. Encounter a hands-on experience of the different stages of our transition from AutoCAD software to Revit software, and discover the benefits and potential pitfalls along the way. SSEN Transmission projects play a leading role in reducing carbon emissions through infrastructure investment. We're embracing technology to help deliver the large-scale infrastructure growth required to make a decarbonized electricity network a reality. For the design teams, this involves growing our digital design and collaboration capabilities using the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Autodesk Construction Cloud. This workshop will focus on our design process for high-voltage substations across a portfolio of live projects. The SSEN Transmission team will demonstrate steps taken to grow a more traditional 2D AutoCAD design process into a collaborative design approach using Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud. There will be opportunities to interact with models using various applications and hardware.

AutoCAD Electrical software provides many tools to configure the software specifically to the design environment and workflows of your company. Do you have specific folders and paths for your custom files? (Hint: You should!) We’ll show you where to set these for everyone on your design team. We cover the WD.ENV, WD_M.dwg, WD_PNLM.dwg, DEFAULT.WDT, and many other reference files. Tired off making the same old picks and clicks to start your drawings or save custom files? Join us to enter the brave new world of enhance productivity.

Discover how BIM is now expanding into substation projects. Learn how Siemens ME has identified solutions to major challenges for substation design.

Do you find yourself behind on design projects? Do you want to better familiarize yourself with AutoCAD software to improve your efficiency? In this class, we’ll discuss how to manipulate settings and options to improve speed. We’ll discuss how to set up drawings using Xrefs and utilizing paper space and model space. We’ll also look at how layer commands and object display settings can reduce clutter in your drawings to make it easier to manipulate drawing components. This class will help you become more familiar with some of the options in AutoCAD, and help you take that next step in your career using the many tools AutoCAD has to offer.

Have you been trying to implement AutoCAD Electrical software at your company, but some things just are not working? Most likely, some things are working, but you’re getting frustrated with the subjects that aren’t working. This group discussion will dive into the most-common subjects that derail AutoCAD Electrical implementation. Having the opportunity to discuss AutoCAD Electrical with other companies will let you share what’s worked for you, and you’ll see what’s worked for them. Additionally, there will be an AutoCAD Electrical expert there to help solve the items that no one in the group has been able to resolve.

Come to this class to learn how to wow your customers and win stakeholder approvals with 3D utility proposals, whether it is in a corporate boardroom or an eastern Idaho farm. This class demonstrates how a beginner to InfraWorks software can create a model that will win shareholder approval—even if your office does not draft in 3D. We present in-depth use cases on hydroelectric facilities, substations, and proposed transmission lines. The class covers the fundamentals of how to quickly and easily create an InfraWorks model. We also demonstrate how to use information from the office, such as GIS or LIDAR data, and we point out useful freebies on the web. You've never created a film in InfraWorks before? No problem—we cover some film-making basics and highlight easy ways you can show off your proposals.