Learn about PlanGrid’s new suite of features, including BIM (Building Information Modeling), and how they can improve field-office collaboration and boost overall field productivity. See what’s new in 2019 and how you can apply it to help your teams build better together.

Come and see an overview of the trials and tribulations Marek faced when implementing new technology, specifically PlanGrid, into an 80-year-old Division 9 subcontractor. We will discuss our wins and losses, plus the strategies and partnerships that led to the overall success of the project.

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.

Join this interactive session to see Construction Technology in action with a live case study from Righetti Partners. Yvonne Schröder will share her experience implementing a shared technology platform across their business to help drive closer collaboration and strengthen relationships with subcontractors, partners and customers. Aditya will join Yvonne to provide a demonstration of PlanGrid, using real examples to drill into the solution and show the power of construction technology. Attendees will have the opportunity to get hands on experience during the session, which will conclude with a questions and answers session with Aditya and Yvonne.

Learn about PlanGrid’s new suite of features and how they can boost your entire project lifecycle, from the office to the field. See what’s new in 2019 and how you can apply it to help your teams build better together.

Learn about PlanGrid’s new suite of features and how they can boost your entire project lifecycle, from the office to the field. See what’s new in 2019 and how you can apply it to help your teams build better together.

Forma is today being used across a large range of projects globally. This session will demonstrate a number of use cases, including how PlanGrid is helping build and maintain railways, Assemble is being used to quantify materials in dams, BuildingConnected is being used to source subcontractors for road projects, and BIM 360 software is being used to manage complex infrastructure projects. We will also show how Autodesk partners are being used in conjunction with Forma products to help infrastructure asset owners better use the data collected on a project.

Introduced at Autodesk University 2019, Forma brings together the most powerful portfolio of construction management software products in the industry, supporting workflows spanning all phases of construction—from design, to planning, to building, to operations. There is tremendous breadth of supported workflows, depth of capabilities in each of the software products, and connectivity of data between those products. Over the past year, Autodesk has focused on three main areas of advancement with Forma: continuing investment into improving Assemble, BuildingConnected, PlanGrid, and BIM 360 software; delivering more integrations and connectivity between the products; and building a unified platform. This class will show how Forma has advanced over the course of the last 12 months, and we’ll explore the workflows from design through operations that can be supported by the products.

Autodesk is committed to helping the construction industry realize the value of a fully connected digital platform across design, plan, build, and operate phases. Autodesk and Aurigo partnered to develop the most comprehensive set of cloud-based solutions for public and private owners. Aurigo’s integration with Autodesk Forma will provide owners a single technology platform for their entire program-design-plan-build-operate lifecycle. This session will showcase the Masterworks connector to PlanGrid as well as give a sneak peek into the soon-to-be-released product for owners.

Are you burned out by the endless barrage of project emails? Have you spent endless hours looking for one document? How about the frustration of discovering that you’re working on the wrong version? Arcadis has found a solution that resolves these issues in addition to solving a clients’ persistent request for a single “source of truth” in one streamlined technology stack. Before, we needed a combination of PlanGrid, BIM 360 software, and Pype to begin solving these problems—but the lack of a single source of truth was creating a new level of frustration. Well, Autodesk is ready to release a comprehensive solution to all the above challenges. Autodesk has revolutionized project lifecycle delivery, streamlined productivity, and afforded a carbon-footprint-reduction solution for every project with new Forma Build software. Join us as we present how it was done on two projects for the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission’s Toll Collection System Modernization project.

Join us as we have a candid and in-depth discussion about how Clayco, Inc., transitioned to the Autodesk Forma software Forma Build from BIM 360 and PlanGrid. This session will cover in detail the specific areas of our Forma Build implementation, including how we redefined account admin standards on roles and companies, how projects were onboarded to the new platform, and how Clayco, Inc., took a measured approach to its rollout of Forma Build modules. We will provide extensive lessons learned from our adoption, and tips on how we track the effectiveness of our Build rollout. In general, attendees will develop a deeper understanding of how a large design builder develops a framework to carefully scale up its adoption of Forma Build throughout its enterprise. This includes having direct and open feedback channels with key internal stakeholders, being transparent with Autodesk product managers on where improvement is specifically needed, and iteratively refining training content over time.

With Autodesk's acquisition of PlanGrid and release of Autodesk Forma there are several tools that assist in the flow of project information. This class will show various workflows not only with the supported software tools like Revit, Civil 3D, and AutoCAD Plant 3D, but also with approval workflows, RFIs, submittals, ways sheets flow through a project, and ways you can use Autodesk Forma Connect to transfer data across different cloud platforms. This class will inspire you to expand your use of Autodesk Forma.

This masterclass will cover how to link PlanGrid with next-generation BIM 360 Docs software by utilizing the power of data collection through BIM 360 workflows and PlanGrid field reports. The speaker will be able to demonstrate the added benefit of being able to maximize data for trend analysis via Microsoft Power Bi and automatic modeling by integrating the output with Dynamo software. We will cover basic principles of PlanGrid and usability for the average user, alongside best practices, work-arounds, shortcuts, limitations, and benefits. We will explore an array of case studies, giving live project application examples and how they’ve integrated with external tools, such as What3Words.

We’ve been working on concrete measures to make HQ-initiated digital transformation work on site in real projects. Understanding the capability of new technologies, we’ve started working closely with Autodesk to realize what we really want on site. When we tried to implement new technologies into the actual workflow, we faced various obstacles, both small and large. But we had to solve all of them. After numerous trials and errors, we’ve dramatically changed our way of working by moving all drawings and documents from paper to electronic (PlanGrid), moving data from local to cloud (BIM 360), and transforming 2D drawings into 3D models and virtual reality (VR). Our work efficiency related to drawings has improved by 30%, and we’re now also able to produce valuable outputs for our clients. We’ll talk about the challenges and possibilities for the future from a realistic point of view, because we are the people in charge at the site.

This session is a follow-up of the class presented last year about the “Virtual construction site management with advanced workflow in BIM360” (CS468465). We will describe the improvements made this year through the adoption of the Build module including the PlanGrid Build mobile app for field workers. We’ve been widely extending the use of Forma with digitalization of other construction processes in addition of those already implemented. We are focusing our attention on setting up a workflow for safety and environmental check in the work site.Using Forge and Forma Connect, we are developing integration with other company database and Legacy IT systems, to avoid data redundancy and to build up integrated dashboards. In upcoming years we will be able to manage and improve the construction process of linear infrastructure projects with ConstructionCloud in order to improve data quality, reduce costs and time by 60%, reduce wastefulness and promote sustainability

PlanGrid became an Autodesk company in 2018, and provides a browser- and app-based tool to work with smart drawings during the construction phase of a project. Setting up a project and linking drawings to the project is a simple process and lets you take advantage of mobile technology on the construction site. AutoCAD guru and LinkedIn learning [in]structor Shaun Bryant (CadJedi) will show you how to prepare an AutoCAD 2D drawing project, with associated drawings for use in PlanGrid. He’ll take you through the necessary housekeeping required in AutoCAD, demonstrate how to add the drawings to the PlanGrid project, and show you the associated benefits PlanGrid provides when on-site.

Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) is the gold standard for planning and executing capital construction projects and has been proven to deliver superior results in safety, schedule, and budget. This discussion involves a case study of how an EPC provider, APTIM, implemented AWP practices, selected software packages to support workflows, and leveraged internal stakeholders to drive adoption. The pace of key workflows such as workface planning and creation of installation work packages was immediately accelerated by the use of a platform of point solutions which includes iConstruct and BIM 360 for work packaging and the use of PlanGrid to visualize the work packages and drawings in the field. The involvement of stakeholders such as middle management and project foremen is highlighted as a key success factor. The combination of process, software, and motivated project staff resulted in a 50% improvement in the “time on tools” as measured by an independent audit conducted by ConstructX.

Businesses waste more than trees when they rely on paper documentation to do work. They waste money. They waste time. They invite liability. Every day, businesses in our industry continue to place valuable information that can protect them on paper in the trailer, where it can get lost or damaged, or be inaccessible when needed. If you’ve ever struggled to put together a complete record drawing set or fished through boxes of loose papers for a safety document, you know how frustrating it can be to do your job with antiquated processes. In this class, we’ll show you how to get set up with a program that will help you digitize your field support and safety efforts and bring these processes into the 21st century, using advanced workflows in PlanGrid that go beyond what you can learn from the PlanGrid trainers themselves.

Attendees will learn about the real issues involved with rolling new technology out to field teams. We’ll cover the overall view of technology within field operations staff. We’ll go over a brief history of mobile technology, where we’ve come from, and where we’ll be going in the next 10 years. We will present a use case at Hudson yard where we rolled out PlanGrid in the field, and we’ll go over why it worked, what struggles we had, and what major lessons we learned. And we will cover how to develop a technology implantation plan and conduct a tech rollout.