PlanGrid’s customer advocates Peter Razavi and Lorrin Blair have worked with hundreds of companies around the country to help implement PlanGrid according to their unique needs. In this session, you’ll learn how different companies have set up and standardized their workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity. Razavi and Blair will discuss real customer stories and lessons learned based on company business model, size, and region.

Construction’s digital future is already here. To avoid falling behind, contractors must navigate new workflows and use new tools, despite a lack of clear standards on data and process. With huge advances in digital design management and an increased need for data access, being able to work effectively across 2D, 3D, and 5D for quantities, costs, and simulations is becoming mandatory. Construction information gathered during preconstruction is vital for minimizing cost overruns and delays when the project execution begins. The key to unlocking that information lies in the estimating process. Accurate and professional estimating makes or breaks projects. This is where the project is understood, risks identified, and decisions made for how it is to be constructed. Seamlessly linking this data across stakeholders and stages for optimized outcome is possible with the right tools. Join this session on how to take advantage of innovative tools to succeed in construction’s digital future—today!

Two years ago, Skanska developed an Asset Management Information Strategy service offering, largely in response to clients and owners starting to ask questions about (and in some cases, requiring deliverables aligned to) achieving day-one operational readiness for their computer-aided facility management (CAFM) and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) technology. In our journey, we’ve encountered an infinite number of client-operational environments, from spreadsheets and email to significant investments in complex CAFM, CMMS, and Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) and Building Management System (BMS) platforms. What we’ve learned is that regardless of the destination facilities management environment, all of these conversations start with developing an information strategy. Join us as we discuss common pitfalls and lessons learned with organizing asset data for the end in mind. Representatives from Skanska and Autodesk, Inc., will explore real-life examples of information strategies for asset management in action. This session features Building Ops, BIM 360 Field, and Revit. AIA Approved

With limited resources and increased pressure to deliver value to clients, general contractors struggle to utilize technology to enhance productivity while maintaining safe worksites. Leading organizations like Skanska are turning to emerging Internet of Things (IoT)-based innovations to solve these challenges. By researching, piloting, and evaluating construction technologies, Skanska is determining better ways to track people and assets in order to build smarter and safer. This presentation will focus on the opportunities, challenges, and proven practices around using IoT and real-time location systems (RTLS) to know which resources are on a jobsite and how they’re interacting with each other. By providing unprecedented real-time visibility into construction operations and safety incidents, software like Spot-r by Triax are helping organizations like Skanska mitigate operational risks and enhance efficiency on the job.

AWS provides the right services you need to build secure, highly available and fault tolerant web applications with zero downtime, allowing you to spend more of your valuable time creating innovative solutions to your business problems. But AWS offers so many services that it can be hard to know where to start. Problem solved! In just 90-minutes, we will walk you through everything you need to know to be able to build your Forge-based web applications with the power of the AWS cloud.

To create and envision tomorrow’s built environment, today’s leaders in the architecture, engineering, and construction space need to look beyond the old ways of thinking. This industry talk focuses on the results-driven but very diverse innovation process as it keeps evolving within a dynamic and vertically integrated environment. In a recent KPMG global construction survey, 83% of senior leaders mentioned the future will be data driven, including routine use of data analytics and predictive modeling for project planning and monitoring. Learn from Clayco and Autodesk about how they partnered to address and solve some of the industry challenges. Bridging the constraints of old business models with an in-depth understanding of the technology promise is the main motivator for the Clayco innovation team. By using the BIM 360 network and a range of predictive technologies such as Smartvid.io, Reconstruct and Construction IQ help find the signal from all the data and help predict and prevent problems.

To maintain competitive advantage, more and more structural engineers are trying to find a way to capitalize on their Building Information Modeling (BIM) data for steel detailing and fabrication. This class will explore how Autodesk Advance Steel is proving to be the missing link that lets structural engineers capitalize on their Revit Structure design models for steel detailing and fabrication. You will also learn how to create automated steel connections on structural members imported from Revit software. You will then learn how to create the automated fabrication and erection drawings and NC files. This class will also show how the bidirectional sync between Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Advance Steel lets you bring any Revit changes into Advance Steel software or validate Advance Steel models in Revit software.

Get an overview of the newest addition to the BIM 360 product family and how it will help you publish, manage, review, markup and approve all your project plans, models and documents across the entire project team. When designers, engineers, subcontractors, general contractors and owners get on the same page, construction happens faster, profits rise and outcomes improve

This presentation will look in detail at how a complex large-scale residential building can be delivered using Revit, with an understanding of overall modelling strategy, data management, and drawing output workflow. The Circus West project represents that first phase of the Battersea Power Station masterplan, and comprises of 752 apartments over 17 storeys, above a mixed-use podium. The building has a 350-metre-long footprint which wraps around the Power Station building, and is articulated as 2 stacked tapering glazed ribbons. In response to the original client brief, the building has a large number of residential typologies, with a mix of 1, 2, and 3-bedroom apartments, townhouses, and penthouses. The project was transitioned into Revit in 2013, with the intention to build a model for the output of GA plan scale construction drawings, scheduling and coordination with the structures and M&E consultant team. The project was not only the largest residential scheme that the practice had delivered to date, but also the first to be produced using Revit, and as a result, initial strategies had to be quickly developed and implemented in order to construct the model. The design work was split between the practiceÍs 2 offices, with the interior fit out of the residential element development by the Manchester office team, and Shell, Core and Podium developed by the London office team. The development of the interior fit out packages for the residential element proved to be the most challenging area of the project to set up in Revit, due to the large quantity of apartment types (over 200 unique layouts). In order to minimise file sizes, and repetition of modelling, a systems of nested Revit models and arrangement files had to be set up to enable drawing sheet output. The level of detail in the apartment models required careful consideration to strike a balance between information required for outputs and minimal file sizes. As part of this, a strategy for the use of families for complex interior fit out elements the within apartment models was developed. Following the BPS project, there are many lessons learnt that can be applied to future large residential Revit projects. This includes developing a strategy for how a project with numerous apartment types can be broken down into manageable elements, with an allowance for flexibility in the set up as the project progresses.

Every stakeholder has different requirements for information which can cause a model to be too heavy or too light for others, and in the worst case scenarios require each stakeholder to remodel from scratch to fit their own needs. Ideally, we should strive to work off the same model to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the design/build/maintain process. This panel will include an Owner, Architect, Contractor, and Engineer and will handle topics such as when and why we use generic or branded families in our designs and the value/pitfalls of doing so. Best practices will be shared and we will discuss ideas on how we might approach this in the future.

This session will be a look at the inner workings of Fusion 360 software from 2 of the people who helped build it. Jeff Strater (developer, architect), and Phil Eichmiller (quality engineer, tester) will demonstrate and discuss the core principles and technology at the core of Fusion 360 software’s modeling, sketch, and assembly compute engines. Focusing on performance and stability, this is a class for CAD aficionados interested in a deep understanding of the inner workings of Fusion 360 and how those are best used in modeling and assembly workflows. We'll show you how Fusion 360 is best used for productivity, and for top-down, bottom-up, and streamlined product design workflows.

Is your company “old school” and resistant to change? We feel your pain. We live your nightmare. Impacting culture change is difficult, stressful, and at times hopeless, and if it’s not addressed, it can cause a dire situation. This class will dive into the processes, technology, and teamwork that went into taking a company that was resistant to change, to a company that embraces technology implementation and utilization. This is a story of a construction company stuck in its ways, and it tells how the implementation of BIM 360 Docs software, BIM 360 Glue software, and BIM 360 Build software changed the way we build projects, exchange information, collaborate, and establish more-efficient processes.

Only a few years ago, we saw the introduction of new technologies such as 3D parametric and intelligent bidirectional design tools. Now we are trying to retrofit them to serve our ability to design and deliver products in ways that are very complex. We've heard a lot about the trends and tools, but we have spent little time addressing the impact on the people in our organizations. We can teach skill sets, but shifting people's approach to design, collaboration, and build among themselves, their consultants, and clients through technology is now an urgent issue that may decide between the success and failure of our financial investments. In this roundtable session, we look at the key variables that keep our staff from embracing this new way of doing business. We provoke the legal, financial, cultural and technological aspects of our transformation, only to realize that we have years of processes to undo to make our new approach worth investing in.

Facilities operations begin when you’re given the keys to the building. But the success of the team is determined well before that—during design, construction, and turnover—when meaningful data about the building is captured and passed along. Today, most handovers are done manually, leading to massive risk of error and data loss. What’s worse, these data leaks ultimately drive up long-term operations costs. Learn how you can bridge the gaps during handoffs and set up operations teams for success with a living digital history of your building, accessible from anywhere.

Have you seen a facilities management spec? What is a facilities management spec? As a facilities manager, would you like to have a say in what your data deliverable is? As a contractor, would you like to focus your owner on what matters? What if the asset data was collected, organized, and usable before the facility opened? What if the preventative maintenance was scheduled and the maintenance records were accessible on a phone or tablet before day one? Our industry is producing some fantastic data, but owners are often left with none of it or an overwhelming, unusable amount of it. This class will focus on what a facilities team genuinely needs to maintain the building. We’ll give you the questions to ask in order to focus on the data facilities that technicians need, not the data we want to provide them with. We’ll also discuss the processes needed to achieve success.

As a result of population growth in developing countries, informal housing has increased significantly. This affects a series of large-scale issues, such as access to water, electricity, and especially a safe environment. In addition, materials and construction practices used in the construction of informal settlements are not always adequate, leading to unsafe structures that are extremely vulnerable to disasters. Among the possible solutions to this global issue, the more sustainable one is the retrofitting of existing buildings to increase disaster resistance. However, considering the magnitude of potentially dangerous houses, the only cost- and time-efficient method to retrofit would be automation. With this in mind, Build Change has designed a workflow based on BIM (Building Information Modeling) tools that reduces data-collection and design time from days to hours. In this class, we’ll describe the strategies used to automate structural designs using Dynamo in a BIM-oriented environment.

The cost of a project is directly related to the schedule. How many work hours are required for each step? How will design changes and delays impact the cost? Meanwhile, there is continued pressure to consolidate schedules from owners and general contractors. This workshop will explore how estimating and scheduling can be further integrated within your project team to ensure costs are accurate, while capitalizing on the latest 5D BIM, project controls, risk analysis, and CPM methods. Additionally, we will present a case study for logistics tracking using equipment sets on various platforms assisted by Dynamo. We will show design changes in the comparison modes. And we will discuss automated location-based takeoffs and customized reporting templates. Related software involved in this presentation are Revit software, AutoCAD software, Dynamo, BIM 360 Glue software, BIM 360 Field software, Navisworks software, VICO, Assemble Systems, MSP, Primavera `P6, and Rhino.

You bring the construction knowledge, Autodesk brings the technology! In this interactive workshop, you will work with stakeholders across the project lifecycle to address challenges in project delivery. In each 60-minute session, you will tackle a construction challenge on topics that touch diverse aspects of project delivery. Explore how the GC can build productive relationships with architects, conquer the supply chain, build without drawings, or make prefabrication methods prevalent. In this session, you will learn from industry experts already implementing excellence, network with your peers as you build solutions, and connect with Autodesk teams for ongoing research efforts.

Facilitators will include:

- Laurie Spitler, Autodesk

- Josh Bone, Construction Technology Specialist, DEWALT

- G. Andy Leek, CM-BIM, VDC Director, Paric Corporation

- DJ Phipps, Construction Technology Group Manager, XL Construction

- Nathan Wood, Chief Enabling Officer, SpectrumAEC

- Lana Gochenauer, VDC Manager, Lease Crutcher Lewis

- Zach Scheel, P.E., cofounder and CEO, Rhumbix

Assemblies figure prominently in the building of Civil 3D corridors. They provide the basic information that can be used in many ways as your design takes shape. There is the potential for a lot of data, and since wrangling that data later could get confusing, having a strategy to manage the building blocks of corridors can make the long-term maintenance pay off. Save time and effort by using processes that standardize your corridor assemblies.

Creating and customizing families is likely one of the most desired advanced skills in Revit software, and learning the Family Editor can be challenging‚ not only due to the vast amount of knowledge there is to be learned, but also because much of the resources to learn the Family Editor are focused on architectural examples and processes. This lab will provide an introduction into the Family Editor from a structural perspective. While we can apply the fundamental ideas to any discipline, we will structurally focus the examples. This lab will build a different family than we did last time!