What are the developments of smart cities, and how can they begin to change the way we deliver our buildings and infrastructure assets? This session will introduce and give an overview of the importance of smart cities. Smart-city technologies are beginning to populate the construction industry and provide solutions for government and city councils around the world. By providing a consistent methodology using governing standards, smart-city agendas can be defined. There are a variety of technology startups focused on developing solutions to enable a smart-city agenda. This session will give examples of these innovative companies and detail how they use different technologies to support how our cities are changing with increases in population.

Can BIM underpin a smart future for predictive maintenance post occupancy? The recent advent of live, online collaborative databases of BIM information, shared in cloud-based services, presents a very real opportunity for us to consider BIM as a key smart system to be designed into a building and residing on a common data network. The purpose is to make smart and automated management decisions about the operation of the building—essentially we’re talking about predictive maintenance.

Learn how Smart Building Operations differ from conventional building operations, and why BIM is essential for Smart Building Operations. This session will discuss the future of the Smart Building industry, the technical and business challenges, and how Eutech have used Autodesk Forge and Autodesk BIM360 to create a comprehensive Smart Building Management application.

Southern California Edison uses Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler software in their operations center to manage smart meters. This class will show and tell how utilities can integrate Autodesk visualization tools with their smart meter systems to effectively manage smart meters in their network. You will learn how you can use Infrastructure Modeler to visualize various meter events and to empower operations personnel to direct work in finding resolutions to issues.

One of the biggest challenges with technological advancement is bringing improvements and maintaining the identity of cities. With microchips being treated as commodities, you can connect any and all assets from cities to a smart database. Learn in this class how InfraWorks software works as an interactive map, replicable to any and every city that seeks to manage its municipality more efficiently and intelligently.

Today, there are more than 16 billion active wireless-connected devices, and that number will more than double and exceed 40 billion by 2020, according to ABI Research. With more and more smart things surrounding us in smart homes, offices, streets, and cities, can our 2D and 3D design also become smarter and connected? Can our design data become a smart living thing that connects to the physical world, monitors and interacts with the surrounding environment, and helps deliver performance visibility toward predictive maintenance and reduced downtime? The answer is yes! In this class we will explore new ways of building “smart connected” design and demonstrate how you can connect your design with physical microcontrollers and communicate with sensors in real time. We will also show you how to turn your design into an interaction-on-demand system that enables anyone to interact with any device at any time, all with the power of Autodesk 360 web service and Internet of Things (IoT).

This session will cover a case study of BIM (Building Information Modeling) implementation for a complex urban project designed as a smart city. The 126-hectare project is called Garonne Eiffel, and sits in a large development area in Bordeaux, France. The heart of Garonne Eiffel is the Belvedere subdistrict, a 12-hectare (30 acre) area. BIM has been implemented on the Belvedere project, which is the first key step for a future smart city. We will present the project with its specific challenges (urban density, collaboration, technical complexity). We will discuss the BIM strategy applied, including good and not so good aspects. We will describe the workflows created with the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to show how InfraWorks software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, and Navisworks software are key tools to urban design. We’ll show how we used InfraWorks to assemble Civil 3D modelization for the Belvedere project: buildings, roads, trees, and street equipment. And, we’ll show how Dynamo helped us improve our productivity.

With the advent of the smart grid, it is even more important to have accurate and timely data. In this class, we will talk about right-of-way data capture and 3D street-level data capture. We will cover ground penetrating radar (GPR) , which enables you to access and understand underground utilities, to mitigate the risk of digging up or damaging someone else’s utilities, and to better coordinate across multiple organizations for projects such as road widening or overhead-to-underground. We will discuss smarter LiDAR, including processing of all types of LiDAR data from airborne, low-altitude corridor, mobile, and static sources. The class will cover ways to reduce the time needed to create current, accurate documentation of a proposed site and to maintain data of real-time existing conditions, reducing undocumented objects or changes from the original project scope. Finally, we will cover data maintenance, including refresh options and integration to maximize benefit of data and software investment.

This class will discuss and present the smart way to use Revit software and Dynamo software for underground utilities design. This design process, especially for oil and gas plants, is in a constant state of change; hence, it is necessary to find a way to save hours of tedious work. We can achieve this goal by developing "smart" families able to move and adapt according to calculation, simultaneously respecting design and clients' standards. We can synchronize the families' data with the hydraulic calculation by using Dynamo to connect the calculation report to the model with a simple "run." In this way, the pipes routing gets updated, and with this, all quantities and drawings, reducing considerably the time related to these activities.

This class dives into our cross-divisional project at Autodesk for the making of a SmartBridge inside our Pier9 facility.We'll walk through our case study where we used structural analysis, Eagle, Revit and Forge to design and plan the layout of sensors onto an interior pedestrian footbridge. Using sensors for strain, acceleration, temperature, pressure, humidity, sound and cameras, we created the "nervous system". We then integrated all this live sensor data into Autodesk's cloud environment, and used Forge to bring all the data into one context on top of the BIM.Using data at the centre, we'll show you how we learned from the data to create various machine learning analytics for interacting with people on the bridge. In our class, we'll go over how we applied big data analysis techniques, machine learning, computer vision and visualization in the cloud to make our bridge "smart".(Joint AU/Forge DevCon class).

A city can employ a variety of smart gadgets and consider itself a “smart city.” But to increase efficiency and productivity, a smart city uses data and integrated technologies to improve internal processes—ultimately improving the lives of the citizens and businesses that fill it. With the increasing collaboration between Autodesk and Esri, a city or organization can better use geographic information system (GIS) data throughout the project lifecycle. BIM (Building Information Modeling) and GIS integrations empower users to introduce geographic context within a project to assess the environmental impact, collect and analyze data from the field, and improve communication with stakeholders. This session will show users integrations that can benefit them throughout the engineering process. We’ll demo the connections between Autodesk and Esri, specifically focusing on functions in the planning and design process. We’ll demonstrate specific workflows, showing the business value of integrating engineering workflows with BIM and GIS.

Schneider Electric has become a thought leader in electrical BIM (Building Information Modeling) for residential buildings, office buildings, factories, and data centers. The firm’s strategy was to transform the business strategy and operations to target the market of building owners/operators, planners, and the installation industry with a BIM approach. The new Technopole headquarters in France was built as a LEED-certified building. Several marketing campaigns used it to show the value that BIM creates in electrical. In this session, we will cover the following items: how to adjust the BIM process to your targeted customers with a customer success plan; how to train 2,000 internal employees with an adoption plan; how to scale up visibility with webinars and create 1,000-plus qualified marketing leads; how to get the visibility of 200,000 views in press and social media with a co-marketing campaign; how to get the alignment of two companies with leadership meetings; and how to reduce planning time on electrical floor plans by 50% by using custom application with Revit software.

In the last years the architecture, engineering, and construction industry has adopted Building Information Modeling (BIM) as the main process for coping with project design, but often HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) engineers have faced waste of activities and creation of misleading project expectations. To avoid this, the Danish firm MOE has optimized the HVAC design process. This class will show the benefits of creating MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) models from project kickoff, where MEP geometry and data smartly increases its level of development (LOD) along all project phases, without losing information in phase transitions. It will show how to convert 2D lines into ventilation ducts and heating pipes, including their fittings via the Dynamo extension. It will show that dummy equipment families combined with Dynamo are capable of performing pressure loss and velocity calculations in early phases. It will publish a series of Dynamo nodes for HVAC design—for example, how to hook up open connections virtually via the Revit software API. Calculations are also available in intermediate phases. Moreover, we will show HVAC design quality control via Dynamo and BIM 360. This session features Revit MEP and A360. AIA Approved

As a family-owned and managed, medium-sized construction company, Grimm GmbH wanted to digitalize all their running corporate processes. Therefore, they decided to develope a collaboration platform called "Zapper". This online solution, based on Autodesk Forge technology, allows the connection of deep Autodesk Revit knowledge with standardized ERP-Systems like Microsoft Dynamics 365. The Zapper app supports the whole company’s infrastructure in a smart way. This solution allows management, project partners, all employees and clients to collaborate simply and with high efficiency. To enhance customer experience, a mobile app for clients was developed as part of the project. Customers can easily access all the current project data, at any time. In this class, you will learn how Grimm use their BIM models for planning, calculating, tendering and visualizing. Grimm contracted the internal start-up Sumoo and the software company ioLabs for the development of the Zapper app.

This session will focus on optimizing corridor modeling using custom subassemblies. The speaker will reveal how a single subassembly can be applied to different solutions in a variety of situations. We will discuss modeling peculiarities in rocky terrain (rock cut). The speaker will explain how to use Civil 3D software in early bridge designing and model coordination. You learn to make fast and efficient combinations of element classifications system with a Civil 3D model.

Discover how Fusion Production software (a cloud-based tool for scheduling, tracking, and machine monitoring) works as part of a wider Autodesk manufacturing ecosystem and can give contract manufacturers and job shops a digital workflow to begin smart manufacturing. Establishing a connected network of processes within a job shop not only gives an overview of performance data, but also can be shared in upstream processes to unify the disciplines of design and manufacturing. We will demonstrate a workflow starting in CAD, moving to CAM, and ending with production management within Fusion Production. This will involve showing how we create and populate digital work instructions for process definition, conduct production tracking and quality assurance, and perform CNC machine monitoring. Finally, we will see how production data can be fed back into design and manufacturing teams to identify underperforming processes and make informed decisions to improve the return on existing assets.

As campus managers and cities look to embrace the Internet of Things, many are finding that while they have lots of data, managing this data so it can be used in a meaningful way is proving more difficult. Our session will explore how BIM can be used as a vehicle by campus managers and cities to capture, store, and disseminate multiple levels of data (e.g., building, social, environmental, government, economic) as well as generate additional benefits. We will look at how a 3D model can be created in Revit / InfraWorks and populated with data from many sources (e.g., sensors, real-time traffic information, social forums etc.) which can then be accessed by managers, governments, and citizens using tablets, apps, dashboards, and software such as BIM 360 Field. We will also discuss the benefits that can be generated including better decision making, easier benchmarking, improved performance, greater connectivity, and enhanced community engagement.

As cities around the world look to embrace the internet of things, many are finding that while they have lots of data, managing this data so it can be used in a meaningful way, is proving more difficult. Our session will explore how BIM can be used as a vehicle by cities to capture, store and disseminate multiple levels of data e.g. building, social, environmental, government, economic; as well as generate additional benefits for the city as a whole.

We will look at how a 3D model can be created in REVIT/Infraworks and populated with data from many sources e.g. sensors, real time traffic information, social forums etc., which can then be accessed by governments and citizens using tablets, apps and dashboards and software such as BIM360Field. We will also discuss the benefits that can be generated including better decision making, easier benchmarking, improved city performance, greater connectivity and enhanced community engagement.

In this class, you will learn how to view your designs in-place using Augmented Reality on DAQRI smart devices. We will see how data created in any application (Revit, Inventor, Fusion, etc.) can be brought into DAQRI devices a using visualization pipeline that prepares the content for live viewing in Unity based applications. Since CAD models are typically heavy and difficult to visualize on wearable devices, we will explore ways to optimize the content for best viewing performance. We will also look at configuration steps to align model edges with the real world building or machinery. You will learn how existing content in BIM 360 can be shown live in Augmented Reality on DAQRI devices to increase productivity and reduce errors associated with design interpretation. Finally, we will demonstrate how IoT enabled asset data can be shown in Augmented Reality. The material in this class is designed to complement your existing design visualization workflows.