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Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Configure - Plan - Fabricate -Build | Sustainable Fabrication Workflows for Timber Buildings
Sustainability and cost efficiency for residential building is more important than ever. We will present with our customer Haas an integrated workflow from the configurator, an automated detailed design process in Revit to fabrication and the construction site. This digital process allows prospects to visually configure and calculate any residential or family timber house. These visualization of the customer's request via the house configurator leads to a faster and high-quality discussion with the customer. Seamless transition from configuration to design in Autodesk Revit ensures that no extra detail design work must be carried out manually. That model is transferred into the fabrication process and finally all data is leveraged via BIM360/ACC BUILD on construction sites for project and quality management and daily logs.
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
2022 Workflow for Revit, Inventor, Advance Steel, and Robot Structural Analysis Professional on Forma

In this 60-minute session, you’ll learn about effective Revit, Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, Inventor, and Dynamo workflows. You’ll learn how to link a Revit structural model to Robot Structural Analysis Professional for structural steel code check and optimization. You’ll also learn how to control the models using Dynamo. This class will cover how to set up and use Forma to share Revit, Robot Structural Analysis Professional, Advance Steel, and Inventor models. We’ll also cover working with the 2022 workflow between the manufacturing industry and construction industries through Inventor and Revit Interoperability.

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
ACC Roadmap Workshop: Model Management
The life of a model begins in design, or even in early concept stages, but it extends throughout the project lifecycle. It takes on new shape and functions. It's enriched as it progresses from one team to the next. And it acts as a living representation of the project long after handover. Join us as we discuss ways to break traditional silos between teams and use Autodesk's design and construction solutions to author, prepare, and use models. This interactive workshop presented by our product development team will focus on what's to come in Forma and beyond.
Meetup / Nashville 2025
Low Impact, High Tech: Sustainable Design Solutions in the Age of AI Meetup

Join professionals from across industries for an engaging networking experience passionate about driving sustainable outcomes in the age of AI. Whether you're working on carbon analysis, sustainable design and manufacturing, preserving biodiversity, or water stewardship, this is your chance to connect with peers and explore the strategies and technologies changing the way we create a more sustainable future.

We’ll start with a brief welcome and a few conversation starters, like how Autodesk tools help you design more, guess less, and stay friends with the planet today. We’ll explore how the advent of AI is impacting your Sustainable Design strategies as both a challenge and a catalyst (because Sustainable Design, like AI, isn’t always straightforward). Whether you're here to exchange ideas, discover solutions, or build new connections, this meetup is designed to spark meaningful dialogue and collaboration.

New Orleans 2022
Why 360 Cameras Are Becoming the Standard for Site Documentation
In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into how cameras can instantaneously make an impact at the project level or at the organizational level. We’ll explore how we can begin to use photos not just as a reference tool, but as a collaboration, scheduling, and risk management tool.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Reinventing Autodesk® Revit®: Concept to Fabrication
Learn to take your conceptual designs beyond the marketing image through to fabrication. This class describes the solution that we implemented for one of our clients recently where we took an Autodesk Revit conceptual mass to fabrication using Autodesk® Inventor® software. The class will demonstrate the workflow developed to take us from the design brief (a marketing image and five sections), into the conceptual massing environment in Revit software. Here we defined, panelized, and optimized the façade design before coordinating with the proposed steelwork design. This coordinated design was then taken into Inventor to create the fabrication detail necessary for automated fabrication and delivery to site. The final stage of this workflow saw the panels transferred back into Revit to coordinate and design the final supporting bracketry. This class showcases the workflow from Revit to Inventor and back again and highlights the benefits of adaptive components and massing tools to realize your designs.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Using Autodesk® Mudbox® As a Creative Design Tool
Autodesk Mudbox software is a creative design tool that combines free-form expression with ease of use to support the fast creation of initial design concepts. By using Mudbox early in the ideation phase, designers can explore more options, and then reuse and refine their design concepts within Autodesk® Alias®. Designers can become productive with a few days of training, even if they lack extensive prior experience.
Panel / Virtual 2021
Optimizing Your Business Around Industrialized Construction

The construction industry is changing. Skilled labor is in short supply and increasingly hard to find. Contractors are becoming more specialized. Productivity across the entire process has become a larger focus. One’s carbon footprint is being factored into operational strategy. And by 2050, we’ll have 2.5 billion more people living in cities. 
 
These trends call for a new way of designing and building — to help make increasingly complex projects, less complex and shift the industry from a “project” mindset to a “product” mindset. This shift will help make the architectural design process more efficient, allow subcontractors to you start fabrication faster, respond to bids sooner, spend less time creating manufacturing related digital documentation, and standardize/scale their overall ability to produce predicable work. 
 
In this session, Autodesk's top thought leaders in Industrialized Construction will talk about how to successfully shift a business to align with these new developing industry trends.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Bringing Buildings to Market with Autodesk® Fabrication Software
In this class, Hill will discuss the process of using Autodesk Fabrication software to design, prefabricate, and build mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems; and cover the value of using the estimating module to instantaneously evaluate actual costs and the delta costs of jobsite changes. Hill & Samsung C&T will then discuss the impact Autodesk Fabrication has on changing the traditional bid/build process into a more collaborative and integrated processes. Samsung C&T will then discuss their experience with implementing Autodesk Fabrication Software in the Asia market place, where BIM is now finding its tipping point to enter into the mainstream.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
Architectural Renderings That Inspire Your Clients
How do you tell a story with a rendering? How can a 3D model be transformed into a work of art? Is it the illumination, the camera settings, the props, or the composition that brings a project to life and transforms it from a flat image into an inspiring representation of your architectural project? Whether you are a new AutoCAD® or Autodesk® Revit® software user or a production professional who wants a new angle on your projects, this class will immerse you in the creative and technical architectural visualization possibilities available in Autodesk® Design Suite. By learning basic principles of architectural photography and the qualities of great interior and exterior images, you will gain a fresh perspective for producing renderings that will delight and inspire your clients.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
From Preliminary Design Through Fabrication with Autodesk® Building Design Suite and Autodesk® 360
This class is designed for CAD managers, structural engineers, and designers who struggle with finding out the best workflow in their company for designing building structures from preliminary phase to fabrication. Find out how the leading products in the Forma Building Design Suite fit into your current company workflow and design process. Learn how to use Autodesk® Revit® software as your main CAD platform and how to integrate and simulate your model with Autodesk® Robot® Structural Analysis software, using advanced techniques for analytical models. See how Revit can add more value in making fabrication drawings. This class will also emphasize the importance of Autodesk 360 applications and services in your design process: save time with preliminary analysis of your model and visualize and share your intelligent models using the cloud. We will wrap up by presenting i-Theses® applications: extensions for Revit and integration of an intelligent model into i-Theses® FloorOffice to make fabrication drawings of precast floors.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2012
BIM Challenges and Benefits at a Japanese IPD Practice for a Complex 1,000,000-Square-Foot Hospital Project
This class describes several Building Information Modeling (BIM) challenges that Nikken Sekkei, the largest Japanese design firm, and Takenaka Corporation, one of the top five contractor, design-build companies, faced during their collaboration on a 1,000,000-square-foot BIM hospital project. The class covers three major challenges in the BIM implementation and adoption process between the two companies: how to incorporate the new concept of hospital design with a BIM approach that supports design coordination of the "shell and core" of the hospital plan to reduce RFIs; how to manage all of the designers and drafters who are beginning Autodesk® Revit® software users (no BIM champions) to produce construction documents from design development phase; and how to manage design review communications with the client using visualization technology. The class will cover each of the solutions and their benefits as profitable outputs using Autodesk Revit, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, and Autodesk® Navisworks® software.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
How to Bridge the Gap
As a manufacturer and installer of structural glazing products, custom designed and assembled in an automated factory, Starline Windows is uniquely positioned to work with developers and architects directly within the Revit environment. This creates many advantages and challenges in working across organizations and various internal departments. I have worked extensively with Autodesk and their Partners to implement a design process at Starline Windows that represents our product to the highest level of excellence within our shop drawings, while simultaneously creating machine data files and material managment information. I will share my experience in identifying oportunities for digital transformation and process improvement, and I will speak to implementing change across organizational boundaries. I will discuss how to bridge from a modeling environment to a data centric solution while still maintaining a "data entry once" approach for efficient, agile project delivery.
10p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Constructing Tomorrow: Scaling Up with Industrialized Construction—More Bang for Your Build!
“Industrialized construction” refers to the transformation of traditional construction methods through Manufacturing Processes techniques, prefabrication, and digital technologies. This approach aims to enhance efficiency, scalability, and Sustainable Design in the construction industry. By using digital technologies—including BIM, MID (manufacturing informed design), production design, Automation, Integration, & Customization, and modular construction—industrialized construction streamlines the design-to-construction process, reducing waste, costs, and project timelines. In this session, we’ll explore workflows that seamlessly integrate design, engineering, manufacturing, and construction, fostering collaboration and innovation. All of these workflows for industrialized construction empower stakeholders to build smarter, greener, and more resilient structures, meeting the demands of modern urbanization and environmental challenges.
Panel / Nashville 2025
Driving Project Success: How Bristol-Myers Squibb, Windover Construction, and Thornton Tomasetti Innovate to Deliver Certainty
Delivering today’s high-performance projects requires more than a great design—it requires data-driven decision making and integrated collaboration from day one. In this panel, leaders from Bristol-Myers Squibb (owner), Windover Construction (construction manager), and Thornton Tomasetti (design engineer) will share how aligning goals and innovative solutions early unlocks certainty of outcomes across design, construction, and operations. This session will provide a complete 360-degree view into how owner, contract manager, and design teams collaborate to solve challenges, foster innovation, and deliver successful projects in highly technical and regulated environments. Through real-life case studies—including life sciences, manufacturing, residential, and institutional projects—you’ll learn how BIM workflows, BIM-MEP coordination, artificial intelligence (AI), Digital Prototypings, and constructability strategies drive efficiency, improve compliance, and create lasting value from planning through project delivery.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Checkmate Your Checkpoints with Digital Work Plans

In a rapidly shifting reality, enhanced control and collaboration are critical to fostering efficient progress. Proficient schedule management helps meet the rigorous demands of project timelines. The integration of digital work plans propels your projects into the realm of new possibilities, providing a clear path toward set milestones and checkpoints. This session will cover how Skanska Sweden, in collaboration with Autodesk, evaluated and embraced the new work-planning features within Forma Build software. We'll focus on how users can ensure answers with just a few clicks by using the Autodesk Forma interoperable environment in conjunction with schedule and production plans. Learn how to exit the maze of phone calls, emails, and complex spreadsheets by joining us to gain valuable insights into our experience with Autodesk's connected schedule capabilities. Shift from siloed work plans to a more streamlined and efficient digital solution.

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New Orleans 2022
Convergence Solutions Harnessing Data, Sustainability and Talent Trends
Join Autodesk's Alex Pena Workflow Analyst, Amy Marks VP of Industrialized Construction, Tiffany Bachmeier Director of Global M&E and Advanced Manufacturing, along with a panel of industry-leading customers in a discussion about convergence. As companies evolve their future states to include outcomes and solutions like Industrialized Construction, IFM, and Digital Twins – we will consider and discuss the future of data, sustainability, and talent for ecosystem transformation. Autodesk is helping you differentiate from the competition by providing thought leadership, consulting, success plans, technical and product adoption support for you as your industries flex in capabilities beyond your primary businesses and harness emerging outcomes, project strategies, and business models.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
A New Hope: Using Autodesk to Improve Collaboration for Alliance and Framework Agreements
Alliances and frameworks are increasingly key procurement vehicles to facilitate large-scale delivery with multiple contractors supporting the delivery of a common goal. We'll discuss how our experience of alliance and framework contracts has been enhanced through using the Forma Build software and the integration possibilities enabled by the open API Forma Build Service. We'll demonstrate how Forma Data Management software enables contractors to share information, capture collaborative lessons learned, and use standardized details—and the program, cost, and quality benefits that this creates for clients. In this talk, we'll discuss transparency between contractors as well as the trust and confidence that Autodesk and OpenSpace can provide to clients. With one eye on the future, we'll also explore the potential game-changing impact that Autodesk Informed Design software could have on contractor collaboration through safe sharing of intellectual property in design.
32p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
A Platform for Success: Streamlining the Design Process and Increasing Industrialization Through Platform Design
Using our Autodesk suite to reshape our design process and owning our IP has enabled sustainable scaling and the delivery of large pipelines of work for central government using off-site construction methods. This success has led to a 300% increase in our manufacturing capacity in the last three years, while maintaining client satisfaction with the quality of our design and project delivery. We'll explain how this has been achieved through repeatable and continuously improved designs, supported by Forma Build and Forma Data Management software. In the second half of this talk, the focus will shift toward the potential of Autodesk Informed Design software and how it can facilitate a platform design through the development of subassemblies, ultimately supporting off-site construction by maximizing productivity and improving quality through increased industrialization.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Field: Using Autodesk Tools for Connected BIM Coordination
At LGES Project Alpha—a large-scale, fast-track battery manufacturing facility—delivering under pressure required tightly connected workflows and real-time data visibility. This case study explores how Revit software, Navisworks software, and Autodesk Forma were integrated to create a connected project ecosystem that supports Digital Prototyping development and field execution. Revit served as the foundation for BIM and Digital Prototyping modeling. Navisworks enabled clash detection and model federation. And Autodesk Forma provided a centralized platform for document control, issue tracking, and field communication. These tools streamlined coordination, accelerated decision making, and reduced rework. This session will highlight workflows that connected architects, engineers, and trade partners—showing how digital coordination created accountability and visibility across all phases. It will also cover lessons learned from managing model updates, subcontractor input, and construction sequencing in megaprojects.
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