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.

How do you design a factory while missing key data about the machines you intend to install? How do you ensure a reliable, scalable flow of information across disciplinary boundaries, enabling true, trusted, and fast-paced collaboration? Making the world's greenest batteries on an industrial scale requires a new approach to factory design. Concurrently working on several multibillion-dollar gigafactory projects, Northvolt's central Factory Design Team uses an integrated factory design toolbox with its heart in the Autodesk ecosystem. However, a key component has until recently been missing: efficient, cross-disciplinary, and scalable data management. This session will tell the story of how Northvolt's Factory Design Team has established a dynamic data-management infrastructure, how conventional data silos are torn down, and how true design collaboration between manufacturing design and construction design can be achieved with scalability, modularization, and speed at its core.

Do you want to learn how to use laser scans in Autodesk's Model Coordination? This session will cover how Miron Construction has cut this process down from weeks to a few hours. We've been using laser scans for 10+ years and have recently started performing laser scanning ourselves. Laser scanning takes a lot of time and effort, and we were missing an efficient way to use the scans in Model Coordination. Linking the laser scan into Revit software and modeling over it is not easy and creates a lot of risk when coordinating with those models. If items are modeled inaccurately, all liability falls back on our team, which is something that Miron Construction's virtual construction team wants to avoid. This session will share how we are using PointFuse to elevate our building information modeling (BIM) coordination outcomes in Model Coordination.

Forge enables companies to connect data and processes, build custom integrations, and streamline workflows to extend Autodesk product capabilities. Enterprise customers can elevate the ROI of BIM 360 software to the next level by maximizing Forge web services that come with BIM 360 subscriptions. In this session, AECOM will share innovations and stories about how the firm uses Forge to connect BIM 360 with company-specific project administration workflows in a large enterprise environment, and optimize the design collaboration, review, and submittal processes for project teams. You will get a better understanding of what’s available in and applicable from Forge to BIM 360, and gain inspiration for driving business value with models and data.

Join this captivating case study presentation, challenging traditional design approaches in Civil 3D software. Reimagine site design by using the power and flexibility of corridors applied in nonlinear features such as parking lots. Witness how this out-of-the-box thinking tackles site design challenges, and uses the power of Civil 3D to streamline workflows and enhance design efficiency. Quickly make design changes to your entire design to minimize time spent on rework. Share your corridor models with project teams using the Forma Design Collaborations Model Coordination space, and check for design clashes and reduce errors. Rather than fixating on a singular project, dive into how the corridor workflow itself emerged as the case study, and see examples of its implementation on multiple projects. Witness this testament to the transformative power of learning and experimentation in driving innovation.

Imagine asking your board for one of the largest digital investments to date operating as a leading UK contractor in an industry well known for slow digital uptake. We put forward our business case three years ago predicating a 20% productivity gain. Our deployment of Forma Design Collaboration is one of our most successful digital transformation projects, with 46+ projects and 1,400+ users engaged. A recent study across our multidisciplinary stakeholders comprising of architects, designers, supply chain, and a variety of general contractor staff has shown that 85% of users confirmed improved collaboration across all functions, team members, and functions; 91% of users confirmed improved visibility and understanding of design information; 77% confirmed the technology has improved design productivity and efficiency; and 86% would recommend the use of the tools to others. We will share details on how we built our business case and predictions, and how we delivered on this to create change in the industry.

As a leading engineering firm, VHB aspires to be at the forefront of innovation and technology. We achieve this goal by using Autodesk Forma, a cloud-based storage solution, to improve our design process. Autodesk Forma is not just a tool for construction services, Forma Design Collaboration software in Autodesk Forma can be used to boost Civil 3D and Revit performance by reducing open times, preventing crashes, and maintaining data quality. As the design process grows more complex, it requires continuous collaboration with clients, subconsultants, and stakeholders. Autodesk Forma allows essential parties to access, collaborate, and integrate seamlessly throughout the design process, ultimately enhancing outcomes for our clients. The connected workflow creates a more efficient design process, elevating our projects, especially those with integrated services. Collaboration is vital in our dynamic industry, and this session will illustrate how your design teams can use Autodesk Forma throughout the entire design process to increase efficiencies.

Miron Construction has been using BIM 360 software and the Autodesk Forma platform for several years now, and has gained valuable experience on how best to set up the building information modeling (BIM) coordination process using all the features of Autodesk Forma, Navisworks, and Revit software. We will lay out how using cloud-based workshared models that are bridged to and from multiple sites, Forma Design Collaboration licensing, and controlled scheduled publishing can bring efficiencies to your BIM coordination workflow. We'll also demonstrate the benefits of operating in a high-trust environment where subcontractors and architects work side by side on each other's sites.

Go from plan and design through construction to operations using the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection and Forma Design Collaboration software. This class will walk through a theoretical project touching on several software systems within the AEC Collection, including Civil 3D, InfraWorks, Navisworks, and Revit software. The project will demonstrate the tools, features, and new enhancements within Autodesk Forma. In this session, we will touch on each project phase and how the tools in the AEC Collection and Autodesk Forma can help improve project communication, design reviews, and final delivery.

How does the world's fifth-largest airport manage its capital improvement program using building information modeling (BIM)? Through various project delivery methods and contracts, the owner mandates the use of Revit software and Autodesk Forma. This panel session will discuss the digital transformation happening within the capital improvement program at an international airport. We’ll cover how owners, contractors, architects, engineers, and trade partners all work together to collaborate with their intelligent models in the cloud. We’ll have an open dialogue about lessons learned and what improvements can be made in the future. We’ll will focus on the use of design models, trade models, coordination models, owner-mandated metadata, and the BIM execution plans.

Multidiscipline collaboration is key when using different tools for each discipline. Forma Design Collaboration software helps different teams that are using different design tools from different locations to coordinate design and engineering work more easily and efficiently. We’ll solve the challenge of combining Revit software for architectural, structural and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) design and AutoCAD Plant 3D software for industrial piping design. We’ll share specific workflows using Autodesk Forma that address both simple sharing needs (for consultants and owners for example) as well as co-authoring controlled and coordinated design.

Traditionally, teams rely on desktop tools for coordination (e.g., model visualization, clash detection, and issue resolution). This often leads to a convoluted process with limited access to information. Today, cloud-based tools like Autodesk Forma or BIM 360 software can be used to streamline coordination during both design and construction—ultimately offering greater transparency and improving collaboration among owners, designers, stakeholders, and construction managers. Using real project examples, we’ll explore how to replicate this workflow in the cloud so teams can run coordination and review clashes directly in Revit software—without exporting files to Navisworks software. We’ll also preview the best Revit settings for publishing, sharing coordinates, and building stories. We’ll demonstrate how to combine and align Revit and CAD files per level. We’ll illustrate how to view assigned issues and make changes in Revit. And we’ll review similar processes in Navisworks for those unable to transition fully to the cloud.

Bravida is a 100-year-old mechanical and electrical installations contractor that has fully embraced building information modeling (BIM) and tools in the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection, along with cloud technologies such as Forma Design Collaboration and Autodesk Forge, to achieve significant cost and time savings for the firm. This includes an ROI of 87% through implementation of Revit software and Dynamo. Digitalization is the future of the building and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) industry, with BIM technology evolving every year. Bravida is innovating by putting design in the center of stakeholder management and enriching it with multidimensional data such as time management, procurement, logistics, cost estimation, and work orders. These are modeled in Autodesk Forge via Forma Design Collaboration along with 3D parametrical BIM that’s empowered using multiple different authoring software within the AEC Collection. This session is good for any BIM enthusiast wanting to see a real-life example of a mature yet humble, sophisticated yet easy way to develop a BIM platform.

What is a single source of truth and why it is important in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry? In this class, we’ll learn the best practices of maximizing Autodesk Forma, Forma Design Collaboration, Revit software, and other various tools to create and maintain a single source. We’ll also go beyond the usual single source of truth implementation by exploring the innovative data-focused approach to ensure data consistency and compliance achieved by combining the cloud, central project requirements repository, model authoring tools, and API automation capabilities. Regardless of whether you’re involved in project planning, execution, monitoring, or closing, you’ll find multiple interesting ideas, workflows, and implementation examples of using the latest technology to enhance your capabilities and achieve success.

Do you want to learn more about how Autodesk Forma helps with building information modeling (BIM) management for the largest airport in Latin America? This class is for you! We'll delve into the implementation process of Autodesk Forma at Jorge Chavez International Airport (Lima, Peru), which is the best airport in the region. This project will contribute to positioning Peru as an important international connection center in South America, promoting the country's development. We'll show you how to use Autodesk Forma in the engineering phase of this project using BIM methodology and cloud collaboration. We'll cover the use of Forma Design Collaboration, Forma Data Management for project model management, and interference detection. Without a doubt, this experience will be a milestone in South America.

luis vidal + architects is an international studio well-known for leading architectural and environmental innovation, high-quality projects, and excellent user experience. Since 2012, it has transformed its DNA and worldwide offices looking for a cultural and technological accomplishment using building information modeling (BIM) methodology. The main goals have been to eliminate geographical barriers, find a unique method of communication, and share the studio's pioneer ideas about design, multidisciplinary coordination, and sustainability. In this case, study we'll cover how the adoption of BIM 360 Team launched the beginning of a continuous improvement of workflows, until the arrival of a new era of social changes with the launching of Autodesk Forma with Forma Design Collaboration software. We'll highlight the relationship, progress, decisions, health models, revisions, results, and problems found in this virtual environment, where the ethical principles are the same for 500 square meters and 1,200 participants.

This course will outline the steps to take your infrastructure project from planning into design, on to construction, and finally to operations. The Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection connected with Autodesk Forma will empower designers, owners, and stakeholders to communicate seamlessly during the entire duration of the project. Key elements include Civil 3D-to-Revit workflows, InfraWorks simulations, bridge workflows, clash detection analysis, and collaboration and model coordination in Autodesk Forma. With Autodesk Forma, we’ll demonstrate how contractors can have access to live design documents and files.

With next generation technology, much of the model coordination process has been transformed through automation and digital collaboration, democratizing the model coordination experience for VDC managers and trade teams. But a truly coordinated experience isn’t possible without connecting all parts of BIM data from design to plan to build. This session will show you how Autodesk is delivering on this new level of connected model coordination and how integrated workflows will deliver best-in-class coordination capabilities.

With more than 100 client implementations—from architects to general contractors and owners to civil—the speaker can answer anything about Forma, Docs, Build, or . Bring on your questions! You’ll get help with work-arounds, new tools, or getting your question in front of Autodesk’s dev teams and product managers.