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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

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.

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.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

AI-Ready AEC: Building a Smart Digital Foundation with Autodesk and Egnyte

The promise of AI in architecture, engineering, and construction is immense—but without a solid foundation of structured, governed, and secure data, that promise quickly crumbles. In this session, we’ll explore how Autodesk Forma (Forma) tools, when paired with Egnyte’s AI-powered platform, provide a unified, intelligent, and secure digital environment that supports both project delivery and firm-wide data strategy. Learn how Egnyte natively integrates with Forma to provide seamless data governance, intelligent search, and sensitive data classification—all critical for unlocking reliable AI insights. We’ll demonstrate how to centralize project and business data, clean up ROTs (redundant, obsolete, and trivial files), and prepare your firm’s content for AI use cases. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing AI readiness and adopting AI tools responsibly, using the “3Ps”: Practical, Purposeful, and Private.

44p

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Steps Toward the flow in the Infrastructure Industry with Forma: Owner-Led Data Sharing and Management Reform

NEXCO CENTRAL is a road management company constructing and managing highways in the central Japan area (total length: 2,183 km). Impeding challenges—aging highways and labor shortages in the construction industry—make the improvement on productivity at construction sites a high priority. In an attempt to tackle down the challenges, we started considering using BIM from 2017 to shift from analog data-centered to digitized-data-centered construction management. In 2020, we’d established standards necessary for BIM use and set a policy to embrace intelligent models in design and construction phases, ICT construction, and a common data environment (CDE). Based on this policy, BIM was finally applied to the design and construction phase from July 2025. In addition, we adopted Autodesk Forma to realize a CDE to streamline the legacy means of communication between multiple project stakeholders. In this session, you will gain insights and tips on how to realize an owner-led CDE.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Development of Object Library and CDE Infrastructure with Forma for the New Era of Tokaido Shinkansen Maintenance Management

The Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed Japanese rail line excels globally in safety, punctuality, and frequency. This project aims to transform infrastructure maintenance using BIM. Although Japan rail owners are adopting BIM, efforts remain siloed across teams and lack integrated optimization. Rail maintenance requires ongoing inspection, diagnosis, action, and documentation. Seamless data handover is essential to reducing lifecycle costs, but information often stays locked in noninteroperable systems. JR Central addressed this by piloting a common data environment and object library for embankments, following ISO 19650-based information management. Interoperability was ensured through openBIM standards such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and bSDD (buildingSMART Data Dictionary), which unify object definitions and data formats. Revit and Autodesk Forma, powerful BIM tools, were also adopted to enhance authoring consistency and collaborative workflows. This initiative unlocks a new era in infrastructure maintenance—firmly grounded in interoperability.

46p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Unleashing the Power of Forma Connect: Redefining Autodesk Forma Workflow Dynamics

The construction industry faces significant pressure to undergo digital transformation, necessitating the integration of all users, data, and stakeholders into a unified common data environment (CDE). Users seek flexibility in the platform and the ability to use multiple applications alongside Autodesk Forma. The Copenhagen Metro embarked on the challenge of transitioning to Autodesk Forma for the design and construction of the new M5 Metro Line. This presentation aims to share our journey of harnessing the capabilities of Workato to establish efficient workflows and automations. These initiatives facilitated Autodesk Forma implementation and enhanced user satisfaction of the platform. With cooperation from Autodesk, we've managed to speed up implementation of Forma Data Management and Forma Build modules, decrease time spent on tedious self-repeating tasks, increase quality, and use the functionalities of other tools by integrating applications with Autodesk Forma to create a holistic CDE.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Data Exchange and Issues in Forma: Connecting Risk, Change, QTO, and Carbon Insights in One Smart Workflow

This session will uncover how Autodesk Forma can transform issue management into a connected process for handling risk, value engineering, and scope control. By using the Autodesk Forma Issues tool alongside references, forms, and documentation, teams can structure requests for change (RFCs), flag project risks, and capture value opportunities. Paired with Autodesk Forma Data Exchange and Power BI, issue data becomes a strategic resource for visualizing scope creep, managing QTOs from 2D/3D applied to linear infrastructures and bridges through various file formats, carbon emission, and making informed decisions throughout the project lifecycle. The session will highlight how issue-centered workflows can drive clarity, reduce delays, and strengthen governance.

31p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Architects Can Build Too: The Collaborative Power of Forma and Forma Build

Many people look at Autodesk Forma, especially the Forma Build platform, and believe it's only for the construction industry. However, many design disciplines that work with the construction industry use the Autodesk Forma platform, especially architectural/design firms. While Forma Build is ideally set up to be a more collaborative workflow, that doesn't mean it has to be used in that way. This session will show you how our architectural firm uses different aspects of Forma Build before and during construction. We'll cover how our firm went from a dual-input, multiprogram workflow to using Forma Build for specific field workflows. We'll cover the tools we use in Forma Build and how we use custom forms and reports to get the output to look the way we want it to look. By using Forma Build workflows, we'll explain how we became more efficient in capturing data, and how we get the appropriate information into the hands of our construction partners in hours instead of days.

14p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Breaking Ground: India's Oldest Construction Company Adopts Forma to Close the Gap Between the Field and the Office

India's oldest construction company was established in 1865. Learn how it's swiftly adapting to the ongoing advancements in cloud-based common data environment (CDE) platforms for efficiently managing highly fragmented construction data generated on a large-scale project in Mumbai, India. In a traditional setup, more than 200 hours of additional time is spent per month across five functions and 12 roles, leading to multiple layers of duplicity of information and data entry. In an attempt to drastically reduce this time spent, the project team has adopted Autodesk Forma to create powerful workflows that successfully connect teams across various functions, leading to a significant improvement in data transparency and accessibility, and thus closing the gap between site and the project management office. In this session, discover how throughout the last 18 months the platform has been used to create and manage more than 90,000 assets, 9,000 forms, 6,500 files, 1,000 reviews, 600 transmittals, 500 issues, and 50 RFIs—with very little change management involved.

New Orleans 2022

Take a Load Off with DPR, Windover, and Arcadis

Technology for preconstruction has come a long way in recent years. The introduction of building information modeling (BIM), cloud-based takeoff tools, AI (artificial intelligence), and bidding platforms has shaken up the way estimating and preconstruction management operates. The phase of construction has finally exploded with new ideas around cost modeling, historic cost analysis, new methods of collaboration, and the convergence of 2D and 3D quantification. As you mix in the ideologies around the common data environment (CDE), all these improvements in cost planning are also able to inform decisions downstream in the field and upstream to the owner and client. This session will entail an open panel and discussion featuring estimators from DPR Construction, Windover Construction, and Arcadis. They’ll share their experiences with the new age of estimating, and reveal how those benefits help drive their project efficiency. We’ll discuss common industry challenges, expanding on these new ways of working, and highlighting all the technologies that make it happen. Join us!

Panel / Virtual 2021

Collaborative Estimating Workflows for Preconstruction and VDC Teams

BIM (Building Information Modeling) and virtual design and construction (VDC) managers often lead organizations through digital transformation, investigating the latest technology and exploring new ways to streamline and improve both business and project outcomes. Join us for a panel discussion with BIM/VDC managers from leading construction companies. We'll discuss strategies and best practices for getting the most out of collaborative, 2D and 3D quantification workflows.

Panel / Las Vegas 2023

Takeoff for the Win with Barton Malow, Windover Construction, and Huckabee

Performing quantity takeoff can be a time-consuming and laborious process, but it doesn't have to be. Many in the industry are still using desktop-based 2D takeoff solutions that lack the collaboration, standardization, and transparency that is essential to running a fine-tuned estimating team. Join this session to see how the pre-construction and estimating teams at Barton Malow, Windover Construction, and Huckabee are turning to Forma Takeoff—a cloud-based 2D/3D quantification solution—to improve collaboration, increase takeoff accuracy, and reduce takeoff time, ensuring everyone is working off the latest project documents. You'll see how leading general contractors use Forma Takeoff to tackle project challenges while quantifying project scope. Join this lively discussion to see real-life case studies and walk away knowing how you too can improve your takeoff processes and say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming workflows.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023

Increase Your Estimating Productivity by 25% with Forma Takeoff

With rising material costs and razor-thin margins, construction takeoff—including accurate material quantification and cost estimates—is essential to starting and executing jobs on budget and on time. Forma Takeoff, with centralized 2D and 3D takeoffs, allows estimating teams to update quantities in real time, using the most up-to-date design files. By connecting existing building information modeling (BIM) data, Forma Takeoff can reduce takeoff and estimating times by 25% or more, minimize the risk of missed quantities, and guarantee accurate data capture. In this technical instruction, Edwin Bailey (senior preconstruction technology manager at Skanska) will showcase the workflows, techniques, and best practices for using Forma Takeoff, with real-world examples from Skanska's Class A Montrose project in Houston, Texas, among other examples.

Meetup / Nashville 2025

Preconstruction Insights & Innovations

Preconstruction is increasingly recognized as a critical phase in the construction industry, laying the foundation for successful project execution and delivery. Join us at Autodesk University (AU) for an engaging preconstruction meetup designed to bring together industry professionals who are passionate about the planning and preparation stages of construction projects. This event provides a unique platform for sharing insights, discussing innovations, and exploring best practices in preconstruction.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Forma Road Map: Preconstruction

Investing in preconstruction is one of the most impactful ways to de-risk and set your project up for long-term success. Join this dynamic session with the Autodesk Preconstruction Product team to explore what’s new and what’s coming next for BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Forma Takeoff, and ProEst software. You’ll get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at our product strategy, major initiatives on the horizon, and the customer feedback that’s shaping our future. Bring your voice to the table and help influence the evolution of our preconstruction offerings. Whether you're a power user or just getting started, you won’t want to miss this session!

Panel / Nashville 2025

For Good Measure – Tackling Carbon Assessments in AEC

We’ve all heard the stats – the Buildings Sector accounts for over 40% of GHG emissions and construction and demolition waste is a growing problem. Join us for an insightful session to hear how a handful of leading companies teamed up to figure out how to improve efficiency, be more transparent and drive innovative strategies to help drive decarbonization of the construction sector.

Kicking off at London Climate Action Week just 3-months ago, Autodesk and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development convened dozens of architecture, engineering, and construction companies to initiate a Construction Working Group brainstorm resulting in a just kicked-off project focused on the handover process of carbon data from BIM workflows to construction execution. Inspired by a similar initiative focused on the design phase with A & E companies presented at AU and COP29 last year; the goal of this group is to complement that research, focus on the implementation of decarbonization workflows, glean industry insights, and propose best practices through the lens of Construction.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

SE 2050: Get Your Carbon On! Using Forma Takeoff for Embodied Carbon Data

The mission of the SE 2050 Commitment is to support the SE 2050 Challenge and transform the practice of structural engineering in a holistic, firm-wide, project-based, and data-driven way. By prioritizing reduction of embodied carbon through the use of less and/or less-impactful structural materials, participating firms can more easily work toward net-zero embodied carbon structural systems by 2050. But how do we get this data? That’s where Forma Takeoff software can help take your 2D and 3D model information from Revit software to visualize and view your embodied carbon data.

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