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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.

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.

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Workshop XR 201: Mastering Collaborative Design Reviews in Virtual Reality

Step beyond the basics and learn how to lead effective, collaborative design reviews in virtual reality (VR) using Autodesk Workshop XR software. In this advanced hands-on lab, you’ll take on the role of session host—managing data sets, guiding stakeholders, and using real-time VR tools to drive better coordination outcomes. You’ll set up a Workshop, facilitate multi-user sessions, and practice in-headset techniques for managing perspective, assigning issues, and highlighting key design elements. Finally, you’ll see how VR issues connect back to Autodesk Forma, Revit, and Navisworks software for a full feedback loop. Leave ready to lead immersive reviews that streamline decisions and align your team.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025

Sustainable Change Through Partnership: Delivering Data-Driven Transformation

Join us to discover how Ramboll, a prominent multidisciplinary engineering firm, formed a partnership with Autodesk to drive sustainable change and Management through innovative solutions, agile methodologies, and a strategy centered around data and an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The "Together for Better Outcomes" initiative demonstrates the integration of Autodesk solutions—such as Autodesk Forma, Civil 3D, Revit, Autodesk Forma, and Datum360—across thousands of projects, ensuring user engagement and optimizing workflows. By employing digital change management principles and agile development methodologies, this strategy has successfully eradicated silos, standardized procedures, and created new revenue streams. Through this framework, Ramboll has developed custom solutions tailored to solve specific pain points in its workflows, enhancing the firm’s overall effectiveness and adaptability. These efforts are enabling Ramboll to deliver its vision of being the “Partner for Sustainable Change.”

44p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

Autodesk Workshop XR 101: Getting Started with Virtual Reality for Immersive Design Reviews

Discover the transformative power of Autodesk Workshop XR software in this introductory hands-on lab designed to revolutionize your design review process. Experience how leading firms like Stantec, TMX Global, and Worley accelerate their projects using this immersive workspace. Equipped with Meta Quest VR headsets, you'll gain an understanding of how to walk through your Autodesk Forma models and use virtual tools to review details with precision—all within an immersive environment. This innovative approach quickly identifies spatial issues often missed on regular screens or with automated clash detection. It efficiently resolves problems, saving time and resources. By the end of the session, you'll understand how Workshop XR can sustainably guide projects from design to construction. We’ll provide everything you need, including laptops and Meta Quest headsets. Just bring your innovative spirit and readiness to explore new dimensions in design review with Autodesk Workshop XR.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

Using Technology and Software to Create More-Sustainable Designs

Sustainability in construction is a complex issue. As the world becomes more environmentally focused, we’re wrestling with how to implement sustainability in practice. There are so many pieces to the sustainability puzzle, and technology like Autodesk's Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Forma software are key pieces. Buro Happold is known for its technology-forward thinking, and has long been working toward an equitable and green recovery, adapting its business to mitigate climate change and the biodiversity crisis. The firm’s vision for the future is for a regenerative ecosystem—both natural and built—that provides suitable habitats for humans and non-humans alike. In this class, we’ll consider how implementing processes, documentation, and software can help support more sustainable and environmentally friendly design, and we’ll share lessons Buro Happold has learned regarding how to effectively use technology to achieve these aims.

Virtual 2021

Conditioned BIM Data Powers Connected Construction

BIM (Building Information Modeling) and virtual design and construction (VDC) managers serve pivotal roles in empowering stakeholders across multiple disciplines and teams to fully maximize the BIM data stored in the model. Design models often lack construction data needed for downstream use, but adding customized information to a conditioned and structured model can result in a model that can be utilized from design to construction to handover. Currently, siloed solutions force teams to maintain multiple sources of truth for project documents at different project phases, resulting in heightened confusion. In this session, we will cover how project teams can incorporate integrated workflows with Assemble software, and get the full benefit of a common data environment (CDE) used by other Autodesk construction solutions, facilitating collaboration between project members to avoid duplication and mistakes.

New Orleans 2022

Under the Radar: Complex Tunnel Design in InfraWorks

This session will highlight the latest tunnel-design capabilities in InfraWorks software, and how HNTB is adopting these new tools and workflows to design and document complex underground tunnels for clients. See how Autodesk has been working with HNTB to advance InfraWorks software’s latest features in the tunnel-design process, and learn more about its integrations with Inventor software, Civil 3D software, and Revit software.

New Orleans 2022

Improving Your Design Productivity with the AutoCAD Architecture Toolset

A recent study designed by Autodesk and commissioned by an independent consultant showed that the AutoCAD Architecture toolset provided a 61% overall productivity gain throughout the time taken to accomplish specific tasks in basic AutoCAD software. If you’re an architect, drafter, or facility designer and you'd like to boost your productivity, improve your design output, and maximize your AutoCAD investment, this class is for you. In this session, we’ll explore how AutoCAD Architecture software’s end-to-end workflows—conceptual design, space planning, design, documentation, and cloud collaboration workflows using Forma Data Management—can enable architects and drafters to transition from AutoCAD to AutoCAD Architecture by maximizing the software’s 3D capabilities to increase efficiency, reduce rework, improve collaboration, and achieve better design output.

New Orleans 2022

Pivoting AutoCAD to Support the Hybrid Workforce

The past few years have flipped the workforce on its head. Are you working in the office, at home, or remotely? How about your co-workers? How about working with customers? How are you integrating the ever-changing supplier channel? Autodesk has positioned AutoCAD software to support this new situation. Let's explore working on the desktop, from a browser, and on your smart device. We'll dive into how to securely share designs with others and then collaborate smartly. Markups? No problem—trace, annotate, callout, and add revision clouds. Let's create a single source of truth, collaborate, iterate, and make the project deadline.

New Orleans 2022

The Return of the Superb Guide to Easy Revit

The Superb Team is back! Join us in this much-awaited sequel to the Autodesk University 2021 top-rated session where—during a fast-paced, lively conversation (spiced with still more true war stories!)—we’ll continue to answer the question: Can you push the capabilities of Revit software (versions forevermore, especially 2023) to the max? Our answer still is: Of course you can! With the help of more of our favorite workflows, shortcuts, tips and tricks, plug-ins, and resources, you’ll gain the know how to enhance deliverables and dial up your productivity. What else will you get from this session? You’ll hear answers to user questions from last year. You’ll gain the ability to pick and choose the best among the multiple ways Revit offers to achieve an objective. Above all, our additional tricks for resolving curve balls in model, view, family, and annotation management and creation will help you be fearless in the face of Revit.

New Orleans 2022

Autodesk Forge Data APIs: Standardized Granular Data Extraction to Reduce Code Base

For several years, Stantec has maintained a software stack used to extract data from Revit software for various purposes. Most recently, this was in support of a benchmarking effort to collect standardized, normalized data from our models for reporting and analysis by project type and sector. In this scenario, users must “submit” their data after they have a QA check. Autodesk Data Exchange and APIs present a method to standardize the data extraction process and give control to the end user in regards to what data is exported for downstream use. This process removes the compute from the local desktop and reduces the complexity of the internal code base. Using Microsoft Azure as a data pipeline, we move the data traffic off the corporate network (LAN, WAN, VPN, and ISP). This class will discuss our development of a solution that maximizes the Autodesk Forge Data APIs. In addition to benchmarking, we’ll touch on some of the other areas where we have experimented with the tooling, including as part of our digital twin project.

Industry Talk / Virtual 2021

How to Troubleshoot Any Technology

Have you ever noticed how some people can break anything? Unfortunately, there's a lot fewer who seem to be able to fix anything. It's not luck. The fixers just think differently about problems. But there’s often a method to their madness. What seems like voodoo magic is really a variety of techniques and skills and thinking processes that can be learned. You might not ever be as good as that office "expert,” but you can get better. You can learn how.

New Orleans 2022

Big Innovyze for Small Town in Brazil

The rupture of the dam in Ayrton Senna Park in Brazil impaired one of the few tourist attractions in a small town in the Brazilian countryside, generating significant social and environmental impact. Schettini Engenharia understood that for this atypical situation, it would be necessary to bring together some strategic partners to develop the entire building information modeling (BIM) solution with the help of geographic information system (GIS) solutions, starting the first smart-city project in the region. Using Autodesk and Innovyze solutions, the firm aimed to adopt sustainable practices in its proposal, mitigating part of the damage caused by the rupture of this dam, and bringing safety and better quality of life to this community. In this challenging dam case study, you’ll learn the workflow between the following tools: ReCap software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, Forma Data Management software, Navisworks software, Unity, InfoDrainage, and InfoWorks ICM.

New Orleans 2022

Unleash the Power of Design Data with Autodesk Forge API

The Model Properties and Data Exchange APIs are recent additions to Autodesk Forge. They allow us to access design data in a more controlled manner, such as by filtering, searching, and comparing models between versions. Instead of sending the entire model, you can select only the portion that your collaborator needs. Together with the Model Derivative API and the Design Automation API, we now have more options to access design data. However, can you tell which one to use for your specific needs? Do you know differences among those APIs? In this session, we’ll introduce you to the Model Properties and Data Exchange APIs. We’ll then compare various options we have to access design data. We’ll show the examples of use cases, and discuss potential application areas that weren’t possible until now.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Structural Design to Fabrication with AEC Collection—Part II

This class is the next level up from the “Structural Design to Fabrication: Revit and Advance Steel—Buddies for Life” class at Autodesk University 2020. Once you have designed, simulated, and generated the fabrication drawings, the next step is making them available to the field teams. On top of that, tracking the changes and ensuring the site teams have access to the latest documentation is one of the main challenges. This class will focus on the various office-to-field workflows you can use to share the latest and greatest structural BIM (Building Information Modeling) data and fabrication drawings with the extended teams in the field. You will learn about the Forma Data Management workflows that come in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection that you can use to share and compare different versions of structural BIM data and fabrication drawings for effective decision-making processes in the field. This class will also cover the process of creating and managing issues related to structural field workflows.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021

Revit for Rebar: Why BIM Is Better for Concrete

CAD has helped grow the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry far beyond manually produced paper drawings, empowering us to produce more complex, more accurate designs. Today, the AEC industry continues to face new challenges, including financial constraints that increase pressure to deliver projects more quickly and accurately. As a result, AEC firms are evolving their technology once again. In recent years, the move from CAD to Building Information Modeling (BIM) has accelerated as BIM workflows have proven to deliver many benefits over CAD. With the rise of BIM, many new capabilities for reinforced concrete design and rebar detailing have been introduced in BIM authoring tools. When using Revit for rebar design and detailing, every structural member can be modeled, documented, tracked, and controlled, and design changes can be coordinated easily and managed accurately. Don't wait to move to BIM—the right time is NOW.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Validation of DfMA and Data Platform in Data Strategy Beyond BIM and Its Future

Daiwa House has achieved early adoption of building information modeling (BIM) in the design phase, adopted Forma Data Management as its standard common data environment (CDE), obtained ISO 19650 certification, and is currently pursuing a CDP strategy. Toward further growth and innovation beyond BIM, we've launched the "Data-Centric Project" with Autodesk this year, focusing on a data strategy. We've defined a DDP (DfMA data platform), prepared a KoP (kit of parts) using DfMA methodology, and verified its effectiveness in real projects to address social issues such as construction waste and decrease of skilled workers. As data strategy has become essential, along with the verification of the effectiveness of the DfMA methodology in actual projects, we'll present the overall concept of the data-centered project, and discuss how DfMA and data strategy are related to each other and to the realization of the digital construction industry.

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