With rising material costs and razor-thin margins, construction takeoff—including accurate material quantification and cost estimates—is essential to starting and executing jobs on budget and on time. Autodesk Takeoff, with centralized 2D and 3D takeoffs, allows estimating teams to update quantities in real time, using the most up-to-date design files. By connecting existing building information modeling (BIM) data, Autodesk Takeoff can reduce takeoff and estimating times by 25% or more, minimize the risk of missed quantities, and guarantee accurate data capture. In this technical instruction, Edwin Bailey (senior preconstruction technology manager at Skanska) will showcase the workflows, techniques, and best practices for using Autodesk Takeoff, with real-world examples from Skanska's Class A Montrose project in Houston, Texas, among other examples.

Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals want to create cost-effective, sustainable projects and are looking for technologies, standards, and processes to help them make trade-offs between financial and environmental costs during design and preconstruction. Forward-looking firms—including Walsh Construction and SNHA (a Woolpert Company)—took part in a pilot to test new integration between Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) and Autodesk Takeoff, the 2D and 3D quantification solution. Using quantities from Autodesk Takeoff, EC3 users can review the embodied carbon emissions of proposed building materials. Further, it can connect the quantities and carbon emissions to the International Cost Management Standard (ICMS), a framework that provides mythology for reporting and for classifying project costs and carbon emissions in a structured format. Come see the integration and hear from industry leaders about their sustainability goals as they share feedback and lessons learned.

The complexity and limited accessibility of MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) data have hindered its broader use. Traditionally confined to users proficient in specialized technology like Revit software, interactive dashboards are now a more intuitive way to consume and use this data. With Autodesk Power BI Data Connector, data from traditional authoring applications can seamlessly integrate into Power BI, providing a consolidated view of key metrics. This class will explore how to create Data Exchanges and use them to build interactive dashboards through practical examples such as the Electrical Systems Dashboard for reviewing calculations, material takeoff across multiple projects analysis using the AEC Data Model API, and a Space Dashboard for senior engineers to assess thermal loads and airflow. By the end of the session, participants will learn to create visually appealing reports and dashboards that offer a single-pane view of critical metrics, KPIs, and trends.

In this session, we'll present the latest status of Autodesk Construction Cloud APIs. We'll discuss the APIs that have recently been added, and we'll explore what we expect to release in the near future.

Join us to learn about our product strategy and upcoming initiatives across features within Autodesk Docs. In this session, we will gather feedback around tools like Sheets, Files, Viewing & Markups, Search, Desktop Connector, Reviews, and Transmittals. ​ This is a unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap and explore any new ideas about the future of Autodesk Docs with our R&D teams.

Join us to learn about our product strategy and all upcoming initiatives across our platform solutions for Insight and Autodesk AI. In this session we will be gathering feedback around tools within Autodesk Construction Cloud like Reports, Data Connector, Dashboards, and Construction IQ as well as learning about new Autodesk AI powered capabilities currently in development. This is a unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap and explore new ideas about the future of our products with our R&D teams.

Join us to learn about our product strategy and all upcoming initiatives across our platform solutions for Admin and Standardization. In this session we will be gathering feedback around tools within Autodesk Construction Cloud like Project Admin, Account Admin, Bridge, Library, Templates as well as the new Data Transition Tool.​ This is a unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap and explore new ideas about the future of our products with our R&D teams. ​

Unleash the power of Autodesk Construction Cloud to revolutionize your structural engineering and design workflows. The architecture, engineering, and construction industry bears a $280 billion annual cost due to ineffective project data and communication. In this session, you will learn to master design changes and manage the intricacies of your designs through diverse design-review workflows in Autodesk Docs software. Discover how to avoid expensive rework by finding model clashes using Autodesk BIM Collaborate software. Witness how Autodesk Takeoff software enhances the quality of your design through an effective model conditioning process. Explore Autodesk Build software to learn how to proficiently manage risk and quality during the construction phase, easily handling RFIs, submittals, photos, and site observations. Join us and step into a future of seamless design and construction management for structural engineering.

Performing quantity takeoff can be a time-consuming and laborious process, but it doesn't have to be. Many in the industry are still using desktop-based 2D takeoff solutions that lack the collaboration, standardization, and transparency that is essential to running a fine-tuned estimating team. Join this session to see how the pre-construction and estimating teams at Barton Malow, Windover Construction, and Huckabee are turning to Autodesk Takeoff—a cloud-based 2D/3D quantification solution—to improve collaboration, increase takeoff accuracy, and reduce takeoff time, ensuring everyone is working off the latest project documents. You'll see how leading general contractors use Autodesk Takeoff to tackle project challenges while quantifying project scope. Join this lively discussion to see real-life case studies and walk away knowing how you too can improve your takeoff processes and say goodbye to tedious, time-consuming workflows.

There are many challenges and conflicting priorities for scaling model-based estimating. This presentation will discuss these challenges and the process Barton Malow Builders implemented to establish a more uniform practice and reliably deliver model-driven quantification for all our projects. We will mention how these methods need to fit with our overall estimating process, and the team adaptation that is needed. We will also cover how other innovations from Autodesk—such as Autodesk Takeoff and Autodesk Construction Cloud capabilities—can influence progress.

Explore how Stowe Australia—the country's largest privately owned electrical and communications contractor with 1,600 employees and an annual revenue of approximately $550 million—has revolutionized its operations by adopting Autodesk Construction Cloud. This session will explore the challenges faced when integrating a comprehensive digital solution into a business that has thrived since 1910. We'll discuss our multifaceted strategy to address these challenges, including conducting awareness sessions, holding discovery workshops, implementing tiered training programs, forming a steering committee, and establishing metrics to gauge adoption of Autodesk Construction Cloud. Learn about our decision to choose Autodesk Construction Cloud, the tangible improvements it has brought to our business, and our future goals for using this technology. This presentation will offer attendees a detailed road map of our implementation process, providing actionable insights for businesses aiming to enhance their digital infrastructures.

Step into the forefront of innovation with Autodesk's preconstruction portfolio that spans across quantity takeoff, estimating, bid management, and qualification. Engage directly with our product experts as they discuss recently released functionality across our Autodesk Construction Cloud preconstruction portfolio that helps you focus on winning business, reducing risk, making sustainable choices, and protecting your bottom line. But that's not all. Get an exclusive sneak peek into the upcoming features on the road map. Products covered will include Autodesk BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Autodesk Takeoff, and ProEst software.

There are still obstacles to sustainable design. Construction professionals know they must build faster, more efficiently, and more sustainably to meet global demands. The industry is moving away from waste and inefficiency, and is adopting smarter processes, connected teams, and workflows that ensure the right people have access to the data they need to make timely and confident decisions. That's why we need Revit software as a modeling tool; Autodesk Forma software with its conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics, and design automation to help us to select the most-sustainable options in the early stages of the design process; Autodesk Docs software as our common data environment (CDE) and single source of truth; Design Collaboration to manage the exchange of design data between all project teams; Model Coordination for running efficient model coordination and automatic clash detection; Autodesk Build software for improved project, cost, and safety management; and Autodesk Takeoff software for early quantifications and estimations.

This case study session will explore the benefits of using Autodesk Takeoff software to use quantification data as a design tool throughout the building design process. As architects, we often overlook the importance of quantification and cost during the early phases of design, typically generating an unwelcome dose of reality downstream, leading to rework and intensive design changes. What if we could predict with greater fidelity and confidence the cost of our design in near real time, as we're designing and progressing Revit models. This was exactly our goal with implementing Takeoff. Reviewing case study projects, we'll demonstrate how we were able to bridge the gap between design intent and project budgets—thus, allowing 3D quantification through Takeoff to guide decision making during design, promote model quality throughout production, and rally project stakeholders around the same data within a collaborative Autodesk Construction Cloud environment.

The complexity of bid packages, which combine 3D models and 2D drawings, has estimators worldwide struggling to calculate accurate quantities. The added pressure of receiving updated bid packages has also caused estimators to work long hours and have sleepless nights. The result is either not winning the job or winning with little profit. This is where Autodesk Takeoff software—the cloud-based 2D and 3D QTO tool hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud—is proving to be a game changer. This lab will focus on giving attendees a hands-on experience of the connected takeoff process using the industry-leading automated 3D takeoff capabilities combined with easy-to-use 2D takeoff tools. You'll learn the process of setting up 3D and 2D takeoff types, adding unit cost to takeoff types, performing accurate takeoffs, updating the bid package with the new set of drawings, comparing existing snapshots to active takeoff currently in progress, and then exporting the combined 3D and 2D takeoff inventory.

Meet with product experts from Autodesk to hear what functionality has recently been released for Autodesk Docs, Autodesk Takeoff, and Autodesk BIM Collaborate, and what features are on the upcoming road map.

In this session, we'll showcase the workflows we use with the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform on large health projects, including a full end-to-end example of how data is used from Model Checker for Revit, Navisworks 2024 with no file management clash runs, and Autodesk Construction Cloud issue creation, as well as tracking scope changes in models using Autodesk Takeoff. As teams work in Revit, data updates are automatically passed to a central database, combined with Autodesk Construction Cloud data, and then sent back to Autodesk Construction Cloud as additional Insight Dashboards integrated with existing data to simplify and highlight trends in clashes, and scope changes during the tendering and construction phase. We will also present some additional tools we've been using to close resolved clash issues automatically. And we'll show our additional Revit building information modeling (BIM) file which contains zones, levels, and rooms to support tracked changes to scope in takeoff with data trending. Finally, we will present a simple way to extract all parameters using Autodesk Construction Cloud asset model extraction for handover.

In this class, we'll discuss how Autodesk Construction Cloud can help a project management consultancy be more efficient by tracking project key performance indicators (KPIs) related to schedule and cost control through Autodesk Docs, Autodesk Takeoff, Autodesk Build, and Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect. We'll take a closer look at how users can save time and easily track deliverables into Autodesk Docs and Autodesk Build automatically. By combining Autodesk Construction Cloud (cloud platform) to Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect (ready-to-use integration platform), users can create their own custom applications using "recipes,” and follow the delivered models and drawings. We'll also learn how to track the evolution of design quantity takeoffs based on the Autodesk takeoff to make strategic and efficient business decisions relying on real-time project data. By harnessing the power of Autodesk Construction Cloud connected to Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect, we'll learn how to store the extracted data in an SQL database and automatically connect it to a Power BI dashboard streamlining proficient reporting.

Join us to learn about our product strategy and all upcoming initiatives across our preconstruction solutions: BuildingConnected Pro, Bid Board Pro, TradeTapp, Autodesk Takeoff, and ProEst. This is a unique opportunity to influence the product roadmap and explore new ideas about the future of preconstruction with our R&D teams.