One of the biggest challenges with technological advancement is bringing improvements and maintaining the identity of cities. With microchips being treated as commodities, you can connect any and all assets from cities to a smart database. Learn in this class how InfraWorks software works as an interactive map, replicable to any and every city that seeks to manage its municipality more efficiently and intelligently.

While the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has grown massively in recent years, too frequently it appears to start from the ground up with the geology and subsurface being ignored. This is a significant omission, as the whole premise of BIM is to reduce costs by reducing risk at the early design stage and throughout the lifetime of the project. This class will look at how the core BIM principles of data sharing, collaboration, and process can be used and applied to the geotechnical process, illustrated with the case study: Silvertown Road Tunnel. It will highlight the use of tools like AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software, together with HoleBASE SI, to enable the combination of information from previous projects together with a wide range of other data sources, maps, drawings, and models. This leads to a better understanding of the site and improved processes to model and visualize geology and subsurface data with the wider team, which will ultimately help to reduce risk and save money. This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D and InfraWorks 360. AIA Approved

Safety is king in construction. Safety is one of the most-common core values of organizations, and one of the least technological markets for software use. If safety is a core value, and technology is something every organization prides itself on, what’s the missing link? The uses of technology in construction often focus on analytics and providing value to the customer. However, employee safety is invaluable, and merging technology and safety is the next step for construction. This industry talk will cover workflows for providing different platforms of safety models to end users as well as internal employee improvement. We’ll provide ideas for building an in-house modeling program for creating safety models that users can easily view in traditional formats, such as web links and videos, as well as full virtual reality (VR) simulations using Revit modeling from your virtual design and construction (VDC) department.

Architects want to move the world, and the civil engineers want to move buildings, but neither can ever seem to agree on anything except for on the fact that they disagree. With little more than a clear path to nowhere, just how does one begin to put a project in its place? This session will focus on achieving the seemingly impossible dream of project data coming together to create a complete model—where it belongs. After discussing the expectations of each platform, we'll achieve this by configuring shared coordinates within Revit software and then matching everything up with the real-world coordinates used by AutoCAD Civil 3D software. With coordinated model locations in place, we will define effective practices for exchanging data between Revit software and AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Harnessing the models created by Revit software and AutoCAD Civil 3D software, we'll develop an existing conditions model and assemble the entire project in the context of its surroundings using InfraWorks software.

In this case study we will present how InfraWorks software has been used to establish a multidisciplinary coordinating model using Infrastructure Design Suite software, and we’ll describe a successful workflow of how to best interact between the different software systems. The project is a complex hydropower scheme that includes a total of 20 kilometers of tunnels, 4 different reservoirs, several dams, creek intakes, and 2 different underground power stations. The lecture will focus on the advantage of using InfraWorks software from the early phase in a project through to the design phase. We will show you how we combined publicly available terrain data with highly detailed aerial laser scanning, aerial imagery, and underwater surveying. We will show our developed workflow between InfraWorks software, Revit software, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and how you can use InfraWorks software to combine geographic information system (GIS) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) in a common 3D model. Using InfraWorks software, large amounts of data was made accessible to Project Team members with standard laptops and workstations.

This class will describe the benefits of dynamic Civil 3D design and living InfraWorks models. You will learn how to easily connect Civil 3D features to an InfraWorks model and publish for collaboration with engineers and stakeholders. As the design is progressing, the visualization updates for easy viewing and discussion. This simple process will impress management and clients alike. This workflow will decrease rounds of incremental edits during the feasibility and options phases of a project. The InfraWorks model makes it very easy to get quick measurements and volumes, and perform analysis. For many companies, it is important to work efficiently, show value in a process, and have ease of operation. Maintaining a living model checks all of those boxes.

Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) enables rapid design and real-time analysis of stormwater management projects in an interactive 3D environment. It uses industry-standard hydrological models to estimate runoff volume, and features tools to design and analyze 9 types of green stormwater infrastructure, including trees. GSI also provides flexibility to meet local stormwater requirements, as well as LEED v4 (SSc4) and LEED 2009 (SSc6.9) certification credits. This session features InfraWorks 360.

The class/presentation will cover a holistic overview of a digital platform that integrates different systems. This Rapid workflow starts with the Optioneering design that sets the base for the Preliminary design, which then combines the Pavement decision tree and its automated design. This workflow reduces the time required for the early design stages, enhances collaboration between different parties and improves the decision making in the early design phases. The benefits for the audience should be the combination of different tools and techniques that need to be used in order to achieve a fully automated and integrated platform. The outcomes will include; how the use of a centralized database will support the data flow, how customized programming scripts will solve any software limitations, the principles of computational design and how you need to approach it for benefiting your design.

InfraWorks isn't just for civil engineers. Architects can benefit from InfraWorks' streamlined interface and easy-to-use tools to plan, analyze, and present a proposed building on a site within the context of the existing surroundings. Learn how to geolocate and import your Revit model to perform sun/shadow studies, create multiple proposals, bookmark views and batch print them (Javascript code included), generate quick and easy fly-over videos, and finish off with an easy way to create & share a VR experience of your proposed building located on the site.3D city models created by CyberCity 3D, an Autodesk AEC Business Partner, will be featured in the presentation.

This class will show you how to take an inanimate object and animate it for placement within InfraWorks software. You will take a model from Trimble 3D Warehouse and bring it into 3ds Max software. You will then animate the object and bring it into your InfraWorks model.

AutoCAD Civil 3D software's Pressure Networks is great out of the box if you use mechanical or push-on fittings, but what if you use welded or other fittings? Not to worry—you can build your own custom parts catalog. Learn how to create the 3D model needed for your custom part, how to export the data, and how to include it in your new catalog using Content Catalog Editor. Once your parts are in your catalog, we will learn how to create the pressure network parts list to create your pressure network. Finally, you will learn how to share your design with stakeholders using InfraWorks 360 software.

Come learn how integrating ArcGIS location data can better support your design workflows.

Dura Vermeer Group NV is a family-owned, Dutch company with more than 160 years of experience in construction, engineering, and services. The group has approximately 2,500 total employees, and approximately 1,200 of those individuals work in the Dura Vermeer Infra division. The Infra division is a multidisciplinary, "one-stop-shop" that seamlessly coordinates knowledge and activities. It works from local operating companies specialised in regional projects, and from specialist teams for large, national projects in the Netherlands. As a result of this BIM adoption, the Infra division slashed tender time by 50% for the tender rail track Geldermalsen, supported by high-quality 3D contextual models with enablement of virtual risk scenario mitigation. 3D modeling products have 75% penetration across the whole organization. The intention is to adopt and drive 3D model usage higher than 80% by 2020. In addition to the planned increase in adoption and usage of 3D modeling products over the next 2 years, Autodesk has “plugged in” the internal specialists who positively influenced the BIM transformation and project performance. The Lingense Alliance—consisting of Dura Vermeer, ProRail, and Mobilis—is the team slated to work on rail track Geldermalsen beginning in 2019. The project includes increasing the track capacity in and around the city of Geldermalsen by constructing a third track, widening the railway bridge, and removing the existing traverse which will come back in the form of a tunnel under the station. In the city of Tricht, 2 ground-level transitions will be removed, and a new peripheral road will be built, which will perform as an underpass. By leveraging the BIM way of working, the project is expected to reach completion by 2021.

The Infrastructure Design Suite 2016 software provides connected Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows between AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks 360 software. BIM workflows help accelerate civil design and minimize revisions between the preliminary and final design. InfraWorks software provides preliminary design tools that help you design in context, such as model builder and corridor optimization help to set up your project quickly. This class will show you how to use tools like Model Builder to develop preliminary design in context. Utilizing the connected workflows, we will open the InfraWorks software model directly in AutoCAD Civil 3D software for more detailed design. We will discuss how to create the AutoCAD Civil 3D models with specific codes so that data imports back to InfraWorks software for visualization.

This class will explore a large-scale port/transportation project utilizing features in InfraWorks software along with AutoCAD Civil 3D software, AutoCAD software, and AutoCAD Map 3D software. Discover some key techniques to help guide you in transitioning from 2D conceptual planning to 3D and even 4D sequences. This course will cover a wide range of InfraWorks functions, such as creating custom "city furniture" from various sources; creating bridges, roads, and rail; randomizing data objects; running scripts; and, finally, creating project fly-throughs and renderings.

Intended for beginning and intermediate users of InfraWorks software and AutoCAD Civil 3D software, this class will show the civil industry professionals techniques for creating renderings and depicting custom models utilizing multiple Autodesk tools. Using tools provided in Infrastructure Design Suite civil engineering software (AutoCAD Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, Revit software, and 3ds Max software), this class will consist of a live demo showing how to create and use grading, site geometry, and custom FBX models that you can use in your InfraWorks models. This session will feature InfraWorks object data that can be linked to any external open-sourced shared location.

In this lab, we will deep dive into the new Roadway and Bridge design workflows that are enabled by using Autodesk InfraWorks and Autodesk Civil 3D. The high-level workflow consists of creating the design options in InfraWorks, valuing the design (ROI), and bringing the best option into Civil 3D for detailed engineering and documentation, allowing you to save a lot of time and money during the design stage of a project.

Point clouds are an important component in current infrastructure projects, and it is vital to know how to handle them for successful project execution. This class will provide all the necessary information to import, process, and extract information from point cloud data in Autodesk, Inc., architecture, engineering, and construction products. More specifically, this class will teach surface/terrain generation from high-resolution point cloud data in InfraWorks software, and it will demonstrate how to use it in AutoCAD Civil 3D software. The class will also cover how to model city asset features to create a virtual city model, and how to bring those city assets into a design product, such as AutoCAD Civil 3D software, as Coordinate Geometry (COGO) points. This class has no prerequisite. Any knowledge of InfraWorks software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and point clouds will be helpful in understanding the class material. At the end of this class, attendees will be able to use point cloud data with ease and confidence for their modeling and design projects. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Come be one of the first to get a look at Autodesk’s newest urban planning offering - Urban Canvas. Gain valuable knowledge, insight and hands-on experience into this new product, and share your impressions. The design and development team will give a product overview, and Dan Campbell from the City of Vancouver will share his experience with early testing of Urban Canvas. You will have a chance to discuss workflows in the new program and compare it with your experience and expectations. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with Autodesk experts and other urban planners and designers to help shape the future of the product.

SYSTRA expertise in bridge has started developing design capabilities for a High Speed Railway line and for an Elevated Metro line with the system integrated concept of the U-shape viaduct. We are now designing bridge structures for all types of transport modes including long-span bridges such as Chacao bridge in Chile, and road causeways such as The Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Causeway in the gulf of Kuwait. With the US-based company IBT, newly acquired in 2017, SYSTRA has reached in 2018 the 8th rank of the International ENR ranking for bridge engineering.This expertise is strategic to SYSTRA global capacity to deliver mass transit or rail infrastructure worldwide. That's why at the early stage of our BIM deployment we focused in developing internal solutions and design workflows that meet our clients needs and enhance our design efficiency and quality. This class will give you a global view of our internal BIM program for bridge by presenting our design solutions and project applications. The ambition of this program is to increase the efficiency of our engineers and the robustness of our design when creating the bridge assets and is aiming to provide to our client a digital twin of their infrastructure that is fitted for use during operation and maintenance. You will see how our bridge experts have embraced BIM in their design workflows from early stage to construction design using applications such as "BIM in One Click" for linear infrastructures or CABLOA for pre-stressing design.We will also share our feedback on 3D reinforcement design using Revit and its Sofistik plugin for rebar detailing and how to increase the efficiency using design automation. The end of the presentation will be dedicated to looking ahead, exchanging thoughts around application of AI or generative design to bridge, and sharing our initiatives on how to use BIM models for operation and maintenance purposes using our HYPERASSET solution.