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.

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.

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.

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.

Dynamo is great for inputting information, linking parameters together, and performing calculations. However, Dynamo can also be a great tool for tracking the information and components in intelligent models. For example, with large projects, there can be hundreds of spaces with thousands of components. Revit software can track this information in schedules, but only to a certain extent. With Dynamo, you can track the information and ensure that it is correct. You can also write the data to Microsoft Excel or use custom packages to visualize the data in various ways. You can use Dynamo to extract information from architectural models when beginning a design. Then, you can track information in the MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) model as the design progresses. You can simply visualize this data, or you can compare it to other information for quality assurance. With Dynamo, all the information in a model is available to you.

Virtual reality (VR) has been brought to the forefront recently with Oculus VR's Oculus Rift. In this class we will discuss how the emerging technologies around head-mounted displays have reignited VR for those of us in visualization, media, and marketing. We will showcase tips and techniques to use in VR projects, and we'll discuss how this technology can raise the bar in your own projects. We will base the class around profile projects, including the VR Red Bull Air Race experience and stand. This experience started with highly accurate LiDAR (light detection and ranging) scans of the racecourse. Following that, 3ds Max software was used to texturize the models, and then Unreal Engine 4 was used for creation. A physical stand was also designed and engineered by taking 3ds Max software plans back through AutoCAD software and straight to manufacture. The project was also released on mobile platforms, including the new 3D-printed Altergaze mobile-phone VR accessory. We will discuss this device and what it means for rapid prototyping and the open hardware revolution.

There are a couple of trends in today’s world. One of them is that machines are becoming more complex and software is becoming an important part of every machine. Think about self-driving cars and attempts to land a rocket vertically. Now, there's a big gap between the software design for the machine and the CAD design. With a self-balancing robot as a goal, the speaker tried to bridge this gap and tried to validate the software design within Inventor software. With this approach we could extend the Digital Prototyping philosophy and make a true full-digital prototype. To get an idea of the project, take a look at the fusion gallery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYaE5-zlq8g

Innovation is the key to thriving. With the requirements from clients becoming more focused on time, technology, and end results, how can you make sure to deliver? In this class, we will share the results custom development has had for Southland, including metrics on costs and time. We will discuss the needs that led us to custom development and the process of evaluating existing solutions versus custom solutions. Our partnership with Autodesk plus an internal developer enabled us to capitalize on the Revit API more effectively, have fast creation and implementation, and have a seamlessly integrated product. We will touch on process improvement and process re-engineering, in addition to business process automation. With smart buildings and tight schedules, developing a tool that will save time in a single area lets us focus on the higher-risk portions to deliver a better project. Join us to discuss how to determine what solutions would work for you—and gain a few lessons learned.

Technology changes dramatically every year, resulting in significant improvements for users of AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, 3ds Max, Maya, Showcase, Civil 3D, Autodesk Simulation and more, but only if you know what to choose and why. Learn important tips and tricks on latest processor selection, graphics card selection, memory, storage devices, monitors, and more for both the mobile and desktop workstations. This class will help you understand the most recent technology changes, and how to make your configuration choices to get the best performance for what you are willing to spend. We will cover performance data as well as tips for proper set up. We highlight new features in the market that provide advantages to users. This course is geared for a beginner to intermediate level, and you just might see technologies you didn’t know existed.

Innovation is the key to thriving. With the requirements from clients becoming more focused on time, technology, and end results, how can you make sure to deliver? In this class, we will share the results custom development has had for Southland including metrics on costs and time. We will discuss the needs that led us to custom development and the process of evaluating existing solutions vs custom solutions.   Our partnership with Autodesk plus an internal developer allowed us to leverage the Revit API more effectively, have fast creation and implementation, and have a seamlessly integrated product. We will touch on Process Improvement and Process Reengineering in addition to Business Process Automation.   With Smart Buildings and tight Schedules, developing a tool that will save time in one area allows us to focus on the higher risk portions to deliver a better project. Join us to discuss how to determine what solutions would work for you – and gain a few lessons learned.

The architecture, engineering, and construction applications in Building Design Suite present a special challenge to your IT infrastructure. As you wrestle with the computational demands of Revit®-based software, as well as AutoCAD®, 3ds Max® Design, Showcase®, and Navisworks® Manage software, you need the right knowledge to make sound investments in your workstation hardware. Get inside the mind of a certifiable hardware geek and understand all of the variables to consider when purchasing new hardware to support the demands of the BIM and 3D products from Autodesk. Fully updated for 2013, this class gives you the scoop on the latest advancements in operating systems, processors, motherboards, and graphics cards. Learn how each part of your system affects your day-to-day workflow and how to optimize each part. Included in this class is an advanced buying guide for building out the best, most cost-efficient workstations without compromising performance.

This class touches on various topics around materials and finishes that are defined for high-quality visualizations and renderings. You learn tips and techniques to define materials in 3ds Max® software by using accurate acquisition techniques while dealing with color calibration issues. Also, we demonstrate the use of procedural textures to introduce subtle, but important variations that bring images to life. Learn how to make wood look like wood, paint look like paint, and so on. No more cartoon looks!

Stuck in the endless cycle of the creating clash reports to share with engineering and design teams with little effect? Are you experiencing current clash detection and BIM management workflow processes to be laborious, ineffective and not delivering the desired results?...then the Clash Management Masterclass is the class for you! Learn from the class speaker how to adapt and innovate your current Navisworks workflow process to generate the necessary information to leverage the power of data analytics dashboarding with Autodesk Forge viewer to help communicate to your project teams. This approach will empower project teams to make better decisions to resolve important clash issues faster and aid the collaboration process between parties more effectively, delivering a high quality coordinated and integrated design. A number of case studies will be provided to showcase the effectiveness of implementing this improved workflow, and learn how to get the job done right first time!

Whether we use a pencil or the latest technology, as digital artists we still need to develop creative to give our clients an advantage over the competition. Clients sell the same product to the same clientele—how do we help them differentiate? We have technology converging in many ways (architectural visualization, video games, real time)—how do we find the best way to make use of this convergence? Ultimately, as a creative agency or architectural visualization firm, we need to look for ways to show off products and environments that are visually more compelling so that they become the catalyst of this differentiation. Products such as 3ds Max software, Maya software, NVIDIA mental ray software, Revit software, AutoCAD software, and new emerging real-time technologies like Showcase software help with this problem, but that’s just the beginning. In this roundtable we will talk about why we follow these trends and where these new technologies will bring us. Is it all a fad? Will we find a real practical use other than entertainment? Will our clients end up showing us the way?

Learn how to transform your architectural designs or digital prototypes into immersive presentations for effective design reviews or convincing sales presentations. This class will cover tips and tricks to help you add realism, creativity, and dynamism to your presentations.

I've taught this class many times, and it's actually up to 82 tips-but 60 in 60 sounds better. This fast-paced class is designed to give productivity tips to help users improve their modeling and documentation speed. Tips range from simple ones, like using the tab key and the chain selects, to more complicated ones, like selective use of the properties in view templates and modeling sloped topography. There's intentionally no use of tools like Dynamo or other plug-ins; this is about being as productive and efficient as possible with the native Revit software. The other benefit of this class is that most people attending Autodesk University will be asked to show what they learned to justify attendance. This handout and the YouTube video that will accompany it will satisfy those queries and provide firms with some tangible productivity increase.

The rebar fabrication industry has seen great progress in the streamlining of the rebar supply chain, from rebar estimating through detailing, fabrication, and installation. We can attribute much of this progress to the software used by rebar detailers and fabricators and to the integration of that software with the fabrication hardware. Still, there is an opportunity for the industry to improve how the rebar design is transformed into the product installed on site. Attendees will learn how to export 3D rebar detailed in Revit Structure Suite software to a leading rebar MIS (management information system) software product: Applied Software Systems (aSa). This process will drive fabrication processes in the shop and field. We will cover many topics, including effective practices for detailing rebar for fabrication, organization of rebar releases in Revit software, the data exportation to and data checking in aSa, and the distribution the 3D rebar data along the supply chain.

Black & Veatch are teamed up with HDR on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility project in the Kansas City area. Combining the right processes with Autodesk technology is delivering unprecedented collaboration, despite each of the design teams having resources scattered around the world. This session will showcase how the project team has used Collaboration for Revit cloud service and BIM 360 Team and Fusion Team (formerly A360 Team), as well as highlight some of the workflows used to promote efficiency in production.

The rebar industry is highly fragmented where the design, detailing, fabrication and installation processes are not as integrated as with other trades such as the structural steel industry. In this presentation, structural engineers and detailers will learn how the industry can transform itself to design and deliver reinforced concrete structures with greater savings and quality to the owner by engaging structural engineers as the bridge between design, fabrication and construction.