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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.
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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.
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Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Tips and Tricks for Efficient Real-Time 3D Content Production
Producing 3D content for entertainment games, serious games, or real-time visualizations for single or multiplatform targets such as PC, mobile, web, or XR technologies can be a daunting task. You have to balance high-quality content with various technical limitations. Often this question arises: How exactly can I produce compelling content without making difficult sacrifices that interfere with my artistic intention or significantly degrade the quality of what I’m trying to show? Using 3ds Max software, we will walk through an end-to-end content production process where you’ll learn various tips, tricks, and optimizations that you can easily adopt and perform in your own content production pipelines.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Revolutionizing Water Infrastructure Projects: BIM Collaborative Workflow with Reality Capture and Forma
This case study will explore the transformative impact of integrating Autodesk products into water infrastructure projects. We’ll highlight how operational efficiency is enhanced, collaboration is streamlined, quality control is maintained, and Project Delivery is facilitated throughout the project lifecycle. By using Autodesk Forma (Forma Data Management, Forma Build, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and ReCap software), the case study will demonstrate practical applications in three pivotal phases: design, construction, and operations and maintenance (O&M). Through two real-world examples, you’ll gain insights into how these tools work together to optimize project outcomes and ensure seamless integration across different stages.
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Delivering Megaprojects Without Disruption: Moving from BIM 360 to Forma and Across Oceans for Data Regionalization
Managing data on megaprojects is one of the most complex challenges in construction today. With diverse stakeholders, global teams, and a multitude of tools in use, maintaining access to accurate, real-time data across regions becomes critical. But what happens when a live, ongoing project needs to be migrated—across platforms and geographies—without disrupting progress? In this session, we’ll explore a real-world case where a project team undertook a year-long effort to migrate project data from BIM 360 to Autodesk Forma, and subsequently transitioned the project from the United States to the EU data center to meet data residency and regulatory requirements. We’ll walk through the technical and logistical challenges faced, compare available migration strategies, and showcase how the team used Autodesk Forma Connect to automate much of the process—ensuring continuity, compliance, and collaboration across the board.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
99+ Issues but Collaboration Ain't One
After the fall of Kabul in August 2021, the U.S. military launched Operation Allies Welcome to provide housing for 15,000+ Afghan allies in 200+ military barracks in the United States. The program concluded successfully in February 2022, following the departure of the Afghan guests. These bases had been in service for decades, so wear and tear on the barracks was significant and required expedited remediation to return to military service in 2023. This is where APTIM—a global provider of services to the government, commercial, industrial, and energy and utility markets—came in and restored the buildings for use. This presentation highlights how APTIM used the Autodesk Forma platform to win the job and collaborate seamlessly. Through the implementation of Forma Build, SiteSense, and Esri ArcGIS Field Maps, APTIM's multidisciplinary team captured 25,000+ issues, quantified them as recommended repairs in its estimate, and converted those issues into 25,000+ successfully completed work items.
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.
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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.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Autodesk Forma Design Coordination and Scope Management for Contractors

In this session, we'll showcase the workflows we use with the Autodesk Forma platform on large health projects, including a full end-to-end example of how data is used from Model Checker for Revit, Navisworks 2024 with no file management clash runs, and Autodesk Forma issue creation, as well as tracking scope changes in models using Forma Takeoff. As teams work in Revit, data updates are automatically passed to a central database, combined with Autodesk Forma data, and then sent back to Autodesk Forma as additional Insight Dashboards integrated with existing data to simplify and highlight trends in clashes, and scope changes during the tendering and construction phase. We will also present some additional tools we've been using to close resolved clash issues automatically. And we'll show our additional Revit building information modeling (BIM) file which contains zones, levels, and rooms to support tracked changes to scope in takeoff with data trending. Finally, we will present a simple way to extract all parameters using Autodesk Forma asset model extraction for handover.

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 / Las Vegas 2023
Sustainability in Preconstruction: Carbon and Costs in Forma Takeoff using EC3
Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals want to create cost-effective, sustainable projects and are looking for technologies, standards, and processes to help them make trade-offs between financial and environmental costs during design and preconstruction. Forward-looking firms—including Walsh Construction and SNHA (a Woolpert Company)—took part in a pilot to test new integration between Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) and Forma Takeoff, the 2D and 3D quantification solution. Using quantities from Forma Takeoff, EC3 users can review the embodied carbon emissions of proposed building materials. Further, it can connect the quantities and carbon emissions to the International Cost Management Standard (ICMS), a framework that provides mythology for reporting and for classifying project costs and carbon emissions in a structured format. Come see the integration and hear from industry leaders about their sustainability goals as they share feedback and lessons learned.
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.
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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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
An Insight into Mott MacDonald's Partnership with Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Data API and AEC Data Model for Carbon Analysis
Discover how Mott MacDonald used Autodesk’s Sustainable Design Data API to augment the firm’s own internally developed low-carbon product, opening pathways to additional carbon data sets and widening its appeal to clients existing and new. By incorporating the Sustainable Design Data API, Mott MacDonald has been able to make these data sets consistently available across an increased number of platforms, allowing for new carbon insights in products such as Revit Insight and Forma Takeoff software. In addition, the use of the AEC Data Model has enabled a critical link between design data and carbon data, helping to drive more-sustainable design. In this session, we will share key technical lessons learned through our partnership with Autodesk, and detail how we overcame some of the challenges we encountered.
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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Unlock Design Potential Through Quantification: An Architect's Guide to Forma Takeoff
This case study session will explore the benefits of using Forma 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 Forma environment.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
What's New, What's Next in Forma Data Management, Forma Takeoff, and Autodesk BIM Collaborate
Meet with product experts from Autodesk to hear what functionality has recently been released for Forma Data Management, Forma Takeoff, and Autodesk BIM Collaborate, and what features are on the upcoming road map.
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