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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.

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.

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.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Why the Cloud Is the Perfect Companion for Structural Steel Experts

This class will introduce a wide range of Autodesk cloud-based tools, from quick exchanges with the shared views feature for 3D models and 2D documentation to Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software) for multiteam collaboration. Learn about how connecting workflows, teams, and data can reduce risk, minimize rework, and maximize efficiency when designing and detailing a steel structure.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

BIM Collaborate: Bringing the Distributed Team Together

Autodesk’s cloud-based collaboration services—BIM Collaborate and Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software)—are empowering teams to work within an integrated document management and review solution, providing permission-enriched workflows, and enabling teams to execute projects with unprecedented access and control for team integration. This class will highlight the evolving possibilities of these Autodesk services, all of which can be managed through a web interface and mobile applications. Looking at the functionality of each service module, we will walk through common project workflows and discuss the best approach for migrating your next project to the cloud. We are one of the leading consumers of Autodesk’s Forma services, with more than 3,000 active projects. We will discuss our success and the challenges we encountered along the way.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

From Zero to Build-Ready: How We Automated Project Setup with Autodesk Forma Templates

One click of “Create Project” in Autodesk Forma, and, like magic, folders auto-populate, design workflows activate, and dashboards light up—all before you can even finish brewing your coffee. Join us to unpack how our virtual design and construction (VDC) and design teams built an Autodesk Forma template that cuts setup from weeks to hours. Learn how we preconfigured Modeling rules (clash detection on the cloud!), embedded structured folders, and auto-populated Assets settings. We’ll demo how designers now sync Revit models to Autodesk Forma sheets with one click, while on-site teams track steel installations via prebuilt Assets dashboards with no Python PhD required. “This way, teams can focus on the important aspects of designing,” says our lead design manager. Discover how Autodesk Forma templates auto-invite team members, assign permissions, and deploy build settings, not admin work. This is perfect for general contractors, VDC pros, and design managers expecting to leave with actionable steps to replicate our framework.

27p

38p

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

How Forma Design Collaboration Boosted Our Success During a Global Pandemic

Many ongoing projects were affected during the pandemic, requiring changes to our design teams’ traditional workflows. Keeping all teams connected and motivated while social distancing has been an enormous challenge for our industry. Autodesk Forma has evolved to provide the greatest efficiency for cloud collaboration and team integration. In this class, attendees will learn how to use Revit Cloud Worksharing applying a standardized workflow that’s easy to understand and effective for fast-track projects, including project creation, worksharing process, and publish settings. With this workflow, we’ve been able to reduce communication lags, avoid local server failures, and optimize the sync process of our models by up to 50% compared to the traditional local server workflow.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Site Grading with Corridors: Are We There Yet?

Grading parking lots incorporates complex design concepts and creative use of Civil 3D tools. Feature lines have always been the reliable standard, but recent additions to corridors make their inclusion a must. Through a combination of new features and solid workflows, we can now produce a faster, more dynamic process while still maintaining flexibility. We'll begin this class with a story of how Kimley-Horn and Autodesk collaborated to improve site design by improving how curbs are built using corridors. The ability to now create dozens of baselines and regions in a few clicks (along with other recent new features and conditional subassemblies) makes for a much faster workflow. We'll also give guidance on when to use corridors, feature lines, or both. We believe corridors for parking lot grading has finally arrived! Join John Armendariz and Brian Levendowski, along with Tim Yarris, Civil 3D product manager, to learn about these new tools, and how to apply them to your projects.

13p

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Forma Design Collaboration: ACCelerating Distributed Team Workflows

The cloud-based collaboration services, Autodesk BIM Collaborate & Forma Design Collaboration, are enabling teams to gain efficiencies through an integrated model, document management, and review solution, providing permission-enriched workflows, allowing teams to execute projects with unprecedented efficiency, access, and control for team integration. We will highlight the evolving possibilities provided by these Autodesk services, all managed through a web interface and mobile applications. Looking at the functionality that each service module brings to the project, we will walk through common project workflows and discuss the best approach for migrating your next project to the cloud. As one of the leading consumers of Autodesk Forma services, with over 4,000 active projects, we will share our success and challenges along the way.

12p

New Orleans 2022

Why This Kenya-Based Design and Build Firm Moved to Revit

BuildX Studio designs and builds spaces that promote dignity, health, and environmental comfort in Kenya. Time and cost efficiency are key to keeping up with the pace of rapid development in the region. With the introduction of Revit software, the industry has experienced a digital revolution allowing for multidisciplinary worksharing through central models hosted on an individual firm’s local access networks or through Forma Design Collaboration software. Recently, BuildX conducted a survey to determine whether it should migrate its entire design team from AutoCAD software into Revit. We used two projects for comparison. Through a short time-lapse video, you’ll see firsthand the two-times more efficient process with Revit. A housing project in AutoCAD took 3,115 hours, while a similar project in Revit took just 1,478 hours. Join us to hear about the powerful outcomes BuildX experienced through migrating to Revit, how we upskilled the team, and how your firm can benefit too.

New Orleans 2022

Forma Design Collaboration for Civil 3D

Understand requirements for setting up a Civil 3D project in Forma Design Collaboration, including entitlements, software required, and recommendations for success. We’ll cover project setup and administration, as well as migrating Civil 3D projects to the cloud, checking, and resolving your file dependencies. Lastly, we’ll explore the role of Desktop Connector and the importance of data hygiene.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Buildings and Infrastructure—Together at Last!—With Forma Design Collaboration

Are you interested in using Forma Design Collaboration (formerly BIM 360 Design software) for multidisciplinary projects? This class is for you! Following a quick product overview, we'll dive into a live project for a whirlwind tour. We’ll start in the authoring tools—working with files from Revit software, Civil 3D software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software—and show you how to share those files to the cloud. Next, we'll jump into design collaboration, where each design team will create and share its work packages. We'll then move over to model coordination and review any 3D clashes that have popped up. From there, we’ll visit BIM 360 Docs software and see how all project stakeholders have roles to play in model viewing, sharing, markups, issues, and more. Finally, we'll wrap up our journey in Insight building performance analysis software, where we’ll track the health of our project at a glance. This fast-paced course will help you in your decision about whether to adopt Forma Design Collaboration within your own firm.