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.

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.

Are you burned out by the endless barrage of project emails? Have you spent endless hours look for one document? How about the frustration of discovering working on the wrong version? Arcadis has found a solution resolving these issues in addition to solving a clients’ persistent request for a single “source of truth” in one streamlined technology stack. Prior to October 202, a combination of PlanGrid, BIM360 and Pype where the technology solutions needed 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 pain points. Autodesk has revolutionized project lifecycle delivery, streamlined productivity, and afforded a carbon footprint reduction solution for every project with the new Autodesk Build. Join us as we present how it was done on 2 project for the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commissions Toll Collection System Modernization project.

For Digital transformation initiated by HQ, in order to make it work at on-site in real projects, we have been working on concrete measures. Understanding the capability of new new technologies, we started closely working with Autodesk to realize "what we really want on-site". When we tried to implement new technologies into the actual workflow, we had faced various obstacles, from very small to huge one, but we had to solve all of them in order to make it truly usable at on-site. After numerous trials and errors, our way of working has changed dramatically by moving all drawings and documents from paper to electronic (Plangrid), data from local to cloud (BIM360), and 2D drawings to 3D models + VR. Work efficiency related to drawings has improved by 30%, and and we are now able to produce valuable outputs to our clients as well. We will talk about the challenges and possibilities for the future from a realistic point of view, because we are the person in charge at on-site.

We all want to shut the door on 2020 and move on quickly, but we cannot learn without reflection. Through the dark cloud of the pandemic arose the bright lights of creativity and innovation that we are using to navigate a path forward. Virtually pull up a chair and join us as we recount the good, the bad, and everything in between. Learn about construction's critical role in the economy, the innovative field hospitals, alternative manufacturing, and the surprising digitization that happened. The host and panelists will review the stories that arose during the pandemic for a retrospective of lessons learned, and illustrate ways construction as an industry can move forward, stronger.

Barton Malow, ranked by ENR in 2019 as one of the 50 largest U.S. contractors, is a general contractor and construction management firm that has been in continuous operation for almost a century. Safety is fundamental to Barton Malow’s mission. Testifying to that commitment, it proudly displays a logo that proclaims: “Build it Safe—No Exceptions.” With an impressive safety record superior to the industry average, Barton Malow continues to maintain an ongoing commitment to safety improvement. In this case-study-format class, you'll hear from Barton Malow's leadership about how they applied BIM 360 software as well as Autodesk partner Smartvid.io to implement a safety program, and how it was adapted for COVID-19. We will show specific examples of AI for computer vision (e.g., social distancing detection), BIM 360 dashboards, and more, including statistical benchmarks for COVID-19 responses across the country.

Construction software tools are better than ever before, and each serves an important role for your company. See what excellent software you can integrate with PlanGrid to ensure that teams in the field have the information they need to build better and share real-time intelligence from the jobsite with decision makers in the office.

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.

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.

Construction is a high-risk low-margin business. General contractors experience fee erosion on countless projects. Documentation errors and coordination gaps lead to change orders and schedule delays. Eighty percent of projects face added costs because of these root causes. Learn from an Autodesk customer, a data scientist, and a subject-matter expert about how Construction IQ software can help you mitigate risk associated with project controls. Understand how to use AI to manage your RFIs by automatically identifying trends that are going to impact your bottom line. Construction IQ uses innovative machine-learning techniques to learn from millions of RFIs, Change Orders, and Design Documents. These models analyze the data on your projects to provide you with actionable insights on the trades, building systems, and upstream processes that need your attention today.

With last year’s acquisition of PlanGrid, there are a lot of questions about when to use PlanGrid and when to use BIM 360 for field collaboration workflows like quality, safety and project management. This class will help to answer those questions and to provide an update on how Autodesk is working towards helping you use the solutions together effectively and efficiently. Discover the strengths of these best in class, easy to use field collaboration solutions and how Autodesk is working towards integrating BIM 360 and PlanGrid to deliver modern field collaboration solutions to the industry.  

With last year’s acquisition of PlanGrid, there are a lot of questions about when to use PlanGrid and when to use BIM 360 for field collaboration workflows like quality, safety and project management. This class will help to answer those questions and to provide an update on how Autodesk is working towards helping you use the solutions together effectively and efficiently.   Discover the strengths of these best in class, easy to use field collaboration solutions and how Autodesk is working towards integrating BIM 360 and PlanGrid to deliver modern field collaboration solutions to the industry.  

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.

Many of the processes we use to manage construction operations are designed around outdated paper-based workflows. Simply digitizing these paper-based processes is not enough to bring the improvements we need to see in the field. The management of plan revisions, information requests, and product submittal data are critical to a successful buildout, but the traditional paper-based processes used to manage them are slow and limit access to information, resulting in delays and rework. PlanGrid reimagines each of these processes by using digital workflows that enable the entire construction team—from the designers, to the project managers, to the on-site tradespeople—to stay up to date. Learn how to use PlanGrid to manage plan revisions, requests for information, and product submittals in a way that’s more productive and more transparent, all while enhancing collaboration and access to information to reduce delays and rework.

Learn the nuts and bolts of PlanGrid—the field’s favorite software that powers more than a million construction projects around the world. PlanGrid Consulting Manager Jessica Pollack has introduced PlanGrid to thousands of people, many of whom had never used mobile apps for construction before. Get an overview of what PlanGrid offers, and learn how to get started, and how to start using it with your teams in the field.

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 Construction Cloud 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.

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.

Clayco has been using BIM 360 Field software for more than 10 years, and in the last few years, the firm has migrated more and more of its projects to the BIM 360 Build platform. Today, 95% of Clayco’s projects are actively using this new platform to exchange design drawings/models and to conduct quality and safety inspections. This class will discuss in detail how Clayco is implementing BIM 360 Build in terms of the current successes, ongoing challenges, and lessons learned over the course of the firm’s adoption. A key part of Clayco’s implementation has been working closely with Autodesk and providing them with feedback on specific BIM 360 Build features, functionality, and end-user workflows and requests. This class will also focus on how Clayco is tracking the effectiveness of its implementation through end-user feedback and quantitative/qualitative metrics using Microsoft Power BI. This session is a follow up to last year’s Autodesk University class ("Bridging the Gap from Office to Field Using BIM 360").

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.

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.