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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Design, Build, Experience: Immersive Digital Workplaces (REPEAT)
Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.
23p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Twinning TISR: A “Hot” Take on Sustainable Environmental Restoration Using Digital Prototypings
Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.
2p
Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Structural Design to Fabrication with AEC Collection—Part II
This class is the next level up from the “Structural Design to Fabrication: Revit and Advance Steel—Buddies for Life” class at Autodesk University 2020. Once you have designed, simulated, and generated the fabrication drawings, the next step is making them available to the field teams. On top of that, tracking the changes and ensuring the site teams have access to the latest documentation is one of the main challenges. This class will focus on the various office-to-field workflows you can use to share the latest and greatest structural BIM (Building Information Modeling) data and fabrication drawings with the extended teams in the field. You will learn about the Forma Data Management workflows that come in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection that you can use to share and compare different versions of structural BIM data and fabrication drawings for effective decision-making processes in the field. This class will also cover the process of creating and managing issues related to structural field workflows.
Industry Talk / Virtual 2021
How to Troubleshoot Any Technology
Have you ever noticed how some people can break anything? Unfortunately, there's a lot fewer who seem to be able to fix anything. It's not luck. The fixers just think differently about problems. But there’s often a method to their madness. What seems like voodoo magic is really a variety of techniques and skills and thinking processes that can be learned. You might not ever be as good as that office "expert,” but you can get better. You can learn how.
New Orleans 2022
Big Innovyze for Small Town in Brazil

The rupture of the dam in Ayrton Senna Park in Brazil impaired one of the few tourist attractions in a small town in the Brazilian countryside, generating significant social and environmental impact. Schettini Engenharia understood that for this atypical situation, it would be necessary to bring together some strategic partners to develop the entire building information modeling (BIM) solution with the help of geographic information system (GIS) solutions, starting the first smart-city project in the region. Using Autodesk and Innovyze solutions, the firm aimed to adopt sustainable practices in its proposal, mitigating part of the damage caused by the rupture of this dam, and bringing safety and better quality of life to this community. In this challenging dam case study, you’ll learn the workflow between the following tools: ReCap software, Civil 3D software, Revit software, Forma Data Management software, Navisworks software, Unity, InfoDrainage, and InfoWorks ICM.

Instructional Demo / Virtual 2021
Revit for Rebar: Why BIM Is Better for Concrete
CAD has helped grow the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry far beyond manually produced paper drawings, empowering us to produce more complex, more accurate designs. Today, the AEC industry continues to face new challenges, including financial constraints that increase pressure to deliver projects more quickly and accurately. As a result, AEC firms are evolving their technology once again. In recent years, the move from CAD to Building Information Modeling (BIM) has accelerated as BIM workflows have proven to deliver many benefits over CAD. With the rise of BIM, many new capabilities for reinforced concrete design and rebar detailing have been introduced in BIM authoring tools. When using Revit for rebar design and detailing, every structural member can be modeled, documented, tracked, and controlled, and design changes can be coordinated easily and managed accurately. Don't wait to move to BIM—the right time is NOW.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Validation of DfMA and Data Platform in Data Strategy Beyond BIM and Its Future
Daiwa House has achieved early adoption of building information modeling (BIM) in the design phase, adopted Forma Data Management as its standard common data environment (CDE), obtained ISO 19650 certification, and is currently pursuing a CDP strategy. Toward further growth and innovation beyond BIM, we've launched the "Data-Centric Project" with Autodesk this year, focusing on a data strategy. We've defined a DDP (DfMA data platform), prepared a KoP (kit of parts) using DfMA methodology, and verified its effectiveness in real projects to address social issues such as construction waste and decrease of skilled workers. As data strategy has become essential, along with the verification of the effectiveness of the DfMA methodology in actual projects, we'll present the overall concept of the data-centered project, and discuss how DfMA and data strategy are related to each other and to the realization of the digital construction industry.
4p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Autodesk Tools Customization Aids BIM Implementation in Sanitation Company
Brazil has undergone significant legislative changes in recent years and has the bold, yet necessary, goal to universalize water and sewage services by 2033. That challenge has driven building information modeling (BIM) implementation in sanitation companies, which encouraged the Brazilian company SANEAGO to use and customize Forma Data Management and the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection tools for its context. Similar to other sanitation concessionaires, SANEAGO currently deals with large project volume, developed by several different design companies, for the 226 municipalities it operates. This makes document management, standardization, collaboration, project analysis, and project design quite challenging. In this talk, we'll discuss the CAD-BIM transition, covering not only software usage, but also company diagnosis, policies, and project standards establishment, which involves changes in the design processes and in the organizational culture as a whole, in order to raise BIM maturity within the company and its entire ecosystem.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2023
Practical Application of InfraWorks for Bridge Modelling and Design
In this class, you'll learn from a bridge engineer who successfully designed almost 40 bridges using the InfraWorks-centered bridge modeling workflow. You'll see an overview of the workflow and get advice on how to implement it efficiently for a real-world project. Following an overview of the workflow that includes road modeling in Civil 3D software, bridge setup in InfraWorks software, preparation of parametric bridge parts in Inventor software, and production of drawings via Revit software, this class will teach you how to prepare a virtual environment in InfraWorks for ease of workability and sharing of data sources via Forma Data Management. You'll learn how to exchange the road models between InfraWorks and Civil 3D, including modification of road assemblies for bridge modeling in InfraWorks. This class will demonstrate modeling of individual bridge parts, such as abutments in Inventor or Revit. You'll see the preparation of drawings in Revit and related fine-tuning of the bridge model in InfraWorks.
29p
33p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
Get Your Head in the Cloud: Latest Interoperability Updates for Revit, Autodesk Forma, Forma Data Management, and More
Exchanging project data between applications is a favorite problem in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC): Offices need to manage the risk involved in undersharing and oversharing. Collaborators need to understand if they're working on the same version of a project. And data formats must be compatible. While desktop software systems are the powerhouses driving design and engineering workflows, teams need to communicate beyond their desks, often through distributed cloud interfaces that change rapidly. The software development teams for Revit software, Autodesk Forma, and Forma Data Management have created multiple ways to address interoperability problems, and have had hundreds of hours of conversations with project clients and AEC professionals about what does and doesn't work. The most-promising methods include rapidly evolving cloud applications that change and improve constantly. This class will summarize these findings, identify the most-recent tools available to solve interoperability challenges, and look down the road to emerging methods for teams to share data.
Hands-on Lab / San Diego 2024
Cloud Coordination Model with Changes Awareness in Revit
Unleash the power of Revit software's Coordination Model Changes! Say goodbye to the tedium of manually tracking overlapping elements across disciplines, and welcome a sleek, cloud-based solution. This innovative tool instantly identifies modifications, additions, or deletions right in your Revit canvas/views. Experience effortless change detection with intuitive highlighting, clear object hierarchies, and filters tailored to your interests. Embrace the future of project management where your focus remains where it should be—on your design, not on tracking changes.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Data Exchange Customer Spotlight: Interoperability in Action
Data Exchange has launched an Open Ecosystem of Connectors that enable interoperability between the myriad of apps you use every day. Imagine packaging a subset of your model in Revit software—and shipping it through Forma Data Management software to a colleague in another firm who uses Rhino software! Well, that's possible with Data Exchange. But Revit and Rhino are just the first two connectors we've launched—there are connectors for Inventor, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Tekla, Power BI, and many more! In this class, we'll provide an overview of Data Exchange capabilities today, and in the future. We'll explore case studies of how lighthouse customers are using this new cloud capability. And we'll talk about tips and tricks to get you started quickly! You'll hear directly from customers about workflow solutions for coordination, data validation, automation, and even native element creation. We'll quantify the steps reduced from preexisting workflows when customers move away from files toward a data-focused future.
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Revit: Tracking Changes in Linked Cloud Coordination Models
Embrace the enhanced capabilities of Revit software's Coordination Model Changes option. This session, designed for engineers and architects, will offer a technical demonstration of a powerful feature in Revit that allows seamless tracking and viewing of modified elements. Say goodbye to manually tracking changes across disciplines and welcome this cloud-linked solution. Instantly identify modifications, additions, or deletions within your Revit views. Streamline your workflow with intuitive highlighting, clear object hierarchies, and handy filters. Focus on your design while the feature handles the change detection. Join us for an in-depth exploration of this innovative tool, shaping the future of project management in the technical sphere.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Evolving Digital Design-Build for the Next Generation
To address construction challenges, Kajima Corporation has implemented "Proactive Design," an innovative approach integrating detailed construction knowledge from the earliest design stages. This method fundamentally prevents issues related to quality, inconsistencies, cost overruns, and rework. For instance, after Phase 1, condensation issues arose only on the north façade, despite identical floor plans. In Phase 2, we used its integrated design-build capabilities to resolve this issue through early-stage simulations. A LOD 500 model is prepared at the commencement of construction, enabling BIM-based inspections 365 days earlier than standard, thereby mitigating postconstruction risks. During construction, Digital Prototypings ensure real-time consistency. Furthermore, Kajima promotes modularization at the design stage, involving engineers, subcontractors, and fabricators in a seamless integrated model. This approach aims to elevate industry standards and drive progress toward a sustainable future.
45p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Zero Paper, Full Control: Digitalizing Metro Design with Forma Data Management
The entire rail system design process is now managed digitally using Forma Data Management software. Instead of relying on traditional email-based file sharing and approvals, all stakeholders—including the client, consultant, and designer—collaborate in real time on a single digital platform. As a result, delays in approval phases have been significantly reduced, achieving up to 70% savings in paper usage and up to 30% time efficiency in past projects. For upcoming projects, the goal is to implement a fully digital, paperless workflow that boosts Sustainable Design and operational efficiency across the entire design phase.
39p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Data Sludge to Liquid Gold: Transforming the Future of Water Infrastructure Through Digital Prototypings
Water infrastructure owners and operators face poor asset information handover due to system misalignment. Could Automation, Integration, & Customization and integrated data enable Digital Prototypings to support operational efficiency, reduce rework and costs, and improve health and safety (H&S)? Learn how GHD successfully used client-focused data exchange and cloud collaboration during the 40MLD upgrade of Wellington Water Limited’s Te Mārua water treatment plant to ease these struggles. Automating the integration of asset information using Autodesk products enabled delivery of the asset register 12 months early—saving NZ$150,000 and 1,400 hours in asset data management. Combining Esri mobile apps and dashboards enhanced as-built quality and reduced site H&S risks. A proof of concept was developed where GeoBIM and Forma Data Management software were fused to create a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) common data environment (CDE)—the foundation for an operations and maintenance Digital Prototyping. We’ll share valuable lessons on managing evolving data needs and supply chains to demonstrate how connected workflows made Project Delivery more efficient.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Code-Free Magic: Crafting Web Apps with Ease
This class will explore the transformative potential of no-code and low-code platforms, demonstrating various no-code/low-code technologies related to Autodesk products. We’ll showcase practical examples using Data Exchange from Autodesk products like Revit and Civil 3D, as well as Tekla. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how to use the Power BI Connector to visualize and analyze data, providing deeper insights and more-informed decision making. We’ll also demonstrate how to connect everything with a web app built in a low-code environment. By the end of the session, you will have a clear understanding of how these tools can be integrated into your workflows to drive innovation and productivity. Furthermore, we will also take a brief look at how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your applications. This will include a quick overview of how AI can automate tasks and provide predictive insights, giving you a glimpse into the future of AI-driven workflows.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Innovators Stage | Transforming Collaboration and Sustainable Design with XR
Autodesk has been at the forefront of Management in the AEC industry for over a decade, pioneering cloud-connected solutions that enhance global collaboration. As the workforce becomes increasingly distributed, these innovations have set a solid foundation for seamless professional interaction. Now, we are driving the next wave of collaborative transformation by leveraging data on the Autodesk cloud platform to create immersive and intuitive experiences. By connecting data and people from anywhere, we are revolutionizing how work is done, enabling better decisions earlier in the process, and fostering faster, more efficient project completion with less rework. This approach not only saves cost, time, and materials but also paves the way for a sustainable future.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Enterprise-Wide Access to Project Data: An Autodesk Forma and Esri ArcGIS GeoBIM Success Story
Parsons, Autodesk, and Esri partnered to solve a massive challenge: how to organize, index, and expose hundreds of infrastructure projects—encompassing hundreds of thousands of CAD and BIM files—in a single, searchable, map-centered interface. This session will present a real-world case study of how the Parsons, Esri, and Autodesk Consulting teams used ArcGIS GeoBIM and Autodesk Platform Services to create an automated and scalable application that connects project locations with associated design documents, enabling users to search, view, and explore design data spatially. Learn how this solution streamlined access to critical files, broke down data silos, and unlocked new efficiencies across Parsons’ enterprise. Whether you're facing legacy data sprawl or planning your own GIS-BIM integration, this session will offer valuable insights and lessons learned.
32p
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