Search | Autodesk University

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.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Twins on Track: Maximizing the Potential of Digital Rail Asset Management

This session will examine the transformative potential of digital twins in the rail sector, as demonstrated by the Digitale Schiene Deutschland of Deutsche Bahn. Using models enhances AI-driven railway operations, resulting in significant improvements in efficiency and reliability. The use of digital twins in the rail industry is growing globally, with rail systems adopting them to optimize asset management and operational strategies. These systems use building information modeling (BIM) data to facilitate seamless integrations from planning to execution and operations. This presentation will address the issues of data integrity, accessibility, and cross-stakeholders collaboration, with an emphasis on the solutions to enhance the analysis of data and the resilience of systems. This session will also offer insights into future rail advances, with a particular focus on how digital twins can be used in the evolution of railway operations into intelligent, secure, and environmentally conscious systems.

27p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

The Power of Demand-Driven Facility Management with Autodesk Tandem Digital Twin

In today's dynamic business landscape, facility management plays a pivotal role in ensuring operational excellence and cost effectiveness. However, traditional approaches to facility management often fall short in meeting the evolving needs of modern organizations. Enter demand-driven facility management—a shift that prioritizes responsiveness, flexibility, and efficiency. This session will explore the principles and practices of demand-driven facility management, showcasing how organizations can use real-time data, technology, and proactive strategies to optimize their facilities' performances. Participants will explore the key components of demand-driven facility management, including space utilization analytics, energy management, and sustainability initiatives.

Panel / San Diego 2024

From Design and Construction to Operations: The Evolution to Full Digital Handoff

Operations and maintenance costs account for 80% of building expenses. To drive efficiency, operators must bolster their preventive maintenance strategies and optimize workflows—but siloed, incomplete, and inaccurate data can compromise these efforts. This panel presents a promising vision for building and asset operators using recent worktech innovations to ensure a seamless digital handoff from design and construction to operations. By weaving together asset details from the building design phase with real-time performance information, the integration between Autodesk Tandem software and Eptura Asset equips operators with valuable insights to reduce downtime, avoid costly repairs and replacements, and significantly increase productivity. Sharing real-world examples and concrete ways to gain access and visibility to asset data across the full building lifecycle, panelists will explore the tangible benefits of digital twins to ensure better planning, decision making, and cost savings.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Digital Building Logbook: How the AEC Data Model Is Revolutionizing Digital Tracking of Building Information in the EU

One Team leads the development of the Digital Building Logbook (DBL) in the context of Horizon Europe's BuildON project. Serving as a centralized repository, it aids the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry's journey toward climate neutrality and a more circular economy. The DBL captures diverse building data, from general details, administrative records, construction data, and energy performance metrics to operational information and smart building data—collected throughout the building's lifespan. This effort aims to streamline the organization of diverse data types and address challenges related to disconnected data. Using the AEC Data Model API, the DBL will enable efficient data queries and powerful search capabilities to extract rich data from models without the need of authoring tools, effectively mitigating disconnected data issues common in the AEC industry. The DBL enhances user experience by breaking down data for various user personas across the building's lifecycle.

17p

57p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Elevating Digital Twins: From Reality Capture to Intelligent Operations

This session will unveil an innovative approach to creating intelligent models by converging reality capture, IoT integration, and facility operations management within Autodesk Tandem software. We'll demonstrate capturing site progress with 360-degree photo documentation and precisely aligning it with intelligent models created from laser scans in Revit software. You'll see how we've integrated real-time environmental data from IoT sensors via MQTT and consolidated facility management workflows, including people-tracking analytics, on a unified dashboard. By combining these technologies, operations teams gain unprecedented visibility into project status, building performance, and occupant patterns. Explore using this cohesive solution to enhance asset operations, drive sustainability, and create superior user experiences across diverse built environments. Attendees will learn strategies for implementing reality capture, IoT integration, and smart facility management to elevate their building insights.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Transforming Project Execution in the Large HVDC Energy Sector Through the Power of BIM and Digital Twins

We will present a case study that demonstrates how—by following the building information modeling (BIM) process and using the correct processes and tools—we have significantly impacted the HVDC (high-voltage direct current) planning, design, operations, construction, and operations and maintenance phases. Our presentation will address the challenges that the large energy sector industry faces, and provide concrete examples of how BIM has helped us, our partners, customers, and subcontractors overcome them. We'll present impressive statistics and metrics that quantify the remarkable benefits of BIM, such as reducing project costs and rework in construction time through BIM in our power sector projects. We will also show how, by rigidly following the BIM process, we managed to reduce our design errors by 98% from Project A to Project B.

46p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Advancements for Simulations in Built Environment

Energy efficiency, safety, and technology integration are fundamental aspects in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) design and analysis. Explore how Autodesk and Ansys are advancing innovation in AEC through highly effective tools that streamline the application of powerful modeling and simulation technologies. By integrating AutoCAD and Revit with Ansys's simulation offerings, complex simulations are accelerated and simplified. Advancements in numerical simulation—like graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration and new computational codes—boost computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and electromagnetic (EM) analyses, enabling more-detailed simulations and full-field EM solutions. We'll look at how these integrated solutions improve domain-specific applications, including HVAC system optimization, atmospheric modeling, indoor air-quality assessments, and 5G/6G channel predictions, showcasing the benefits of the Autodesk and Ansys collaboration for accuracy and interoperability in AEC and health and safety.

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Easy BIM Asset Management with Content Catalog

In this case study, we'll follow up on a previous session where we explored the transformative impact that a powerful content management system had on design processes. Our organization has achieved substantial benefits by adopting a cloud-based digital asset management solution: Autodesk Content Catalog—notably, saving thousands of dollars and countless work hours by consolidating our building information modeling (BIM) content into a single centralized repository. During this session, we'll showcase examples of how our chosen platform significantly enhances efficiency and productivity. From content sourcing and approval to seamless distribution for end users, we'll demonstrate the profound impact. Our secret lies in the seamless connection of teams, data, and workflows throughout the entire project lifecycle. Regardless of geographical boundaries, this approach empowers greater creative freedom and design flexibility. The future of design lies in collaboration, and our journey with Autodesk Content Catalog exemplifies this vision.

60p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

A Paradigm Shift in Building Operations : Digital Twin with BIM and AI-based Data Analytics

SAMSUNG C&T uses digital twins to optimize building operations. We have developed a digital twin with BIM and AI in an office building with a total floor area of 100,000 square meters, and we are utilizing it to operate the building. The basic functions are the Energy/Asset/Space Management, and Virtual Tours. In particular, the energy management function monitors building energy usage in real time. And we have developed 10 solutions for energy management that can save energy while maintaining the comfort of occupants in the building. These solutions are derived through AI-based machine learning models and optimization algorithms to provide real-time notifications to building operators for sustainable and optimized building energy management. Therefore, SAMSUNG C&T aims to provide efficient building operation and management services by simultaneously implementing digital spaces, going beyond the role of a construction company that constructs physical spaces.

37p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Integration of BIM and Hydraulic Modeling into a Single Workflow

The development level of hydraulic modeling applications enables their use in various everyday situations in the water industry throughout the entire lifecycle of assets, not only in the design and specification stages. The development of information flows in each phase of asset life enables integration and interoperability between design applications (Civil 3D or InfraWorks software), geographic information systems (ArcGIS), and hydraulic modeling software (InfoWorks WS PRO software). This new dynamic enhances the use of these tools together, extracting the best result as quickly and accurately as possible, both in the design phase and also during operations and maintenance. In this session, we'll go through studies of network pathways, sizing, depth, clash detection, documentation, calibration, operational rules, and more, using the best application for each step with the smoothest interoperability.

30p

Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024

Media and Entertainment Joins Autodesk Platform Services

In this session, we will show the new media and entertainment Autodesk Platform Services-oriented software and give an introduction to how the APIs work. The Autodesk Platform Services Flow Graph Engine API is already in beta, with the Media and Entertainment Data Model coming soon to support the Flow Asset Management tools. This class will focus on those features that will also be included in the digital content creation (DCC) tools, but from an API perspective to show how customers can automate and access the data and functionality in an automated way.

48p

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2017

Citywide Reality Capture for Infrastructure Design Using InfraWorks and AutoCAD Civil 3D

Ever wish you could visualize real-world data without leaving the comfort of your own ofﬁce? Sound too wonderful to be true? Well, it isn't. Sending crews into the ﬁeld to measure and collect information about assets is time consuming and costly. But when you have street-level spherical imagery and colorized LIDAR (light detection and ranging) data at hand, you have the freedom to quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively create photorealistic 3D models for planning, design, emergency and disaster management, regulatory compliance, and asset management. We'll explore the collection process and business implications for street-level reality capture and examine 2 alternatives, such as Google Street View and CycloMedia. We'll also discuss practical workﬂows for municipal governments using this data, including design and visualization, with a focus on water asset management and pavement surface markings. Finally, we'll describe how to effectively integrate these data sources with AutoCAD Civil 3D software and InfraWorks software.

Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023

Should We Choose Forma Build as our Primary CM Platform?

Like most firms, Hazen is at times, unable to dictate which CM platform is used on every project. However, for the last several years we have an internal preferred solution that is not ACC Build. In late 2022 we began pilot testing Forma Build with the goal of the pilot being to determine whether we should begin integrating ACC Build going forward. If yes, should we use Forma Build on certain projects alongside our other platform, or should it replace that platform entirely? What we hope to gain from this pilot is identifying the feature and workflow differences between the two platforms, and whether Forma Build can provide an advantage in transferring our asset-ready intelligent models through construction and as-built into a digital twin / facility management product like Autodesk Tandem. This pilot project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2024, but we wanted to share our experiences so far and provide some insight into our findings.

Roundtable / Las Vegas 2015

Fully Collaborative BIM to FM Workflow with Building Design Suite and BIM 360 Solutions

The roundtable discussion is designed to bring to the table like-minded individuals who have a desire to share their experiences toward achieving a fully collaborative Building Information Modeling (BIM) to facilities management (FM) workflow using Building Design Suite software and BIM 360 Cloud software Solutions. The primary intent is to explore well-documented, coordinated, and collaborative workflows using Revit software and Navisworks software with BIM 360 Field software, BIM 360 Glue software, and BIM 360 Plan software. The roundtable is set to review present and future project-based solutions and BIM workflows toward a highly efficient project delivery. We will address the key benefits of collaborative BIM and look to exchange a set of practical hints and tips to assist the roundtable group in gaining crucial insight into the BIM process using Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology. The concluding part of this roundtable will cover potential hurdles encountered in the process and possible solutions that will contribute toward delivering a successful project.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Streamlining Asset Management in Forma Build: Tracking Managing, and Optimizing Project Assets

Unlock the full potential of the Assets tool in Forma Build to streamline how your team tracks, manages, and optimizes construction project assets across the entire lifecycle. This session dives into practical strategies for organizing asset types, customizing fields, and improving visibility and accountability through status tracking, barcoding, and mobile workflows. Whether you're managing equipment, rooms, or closeout deliverables, you'll learn how to configure Forma Build to fit your asset management needs. To bring it all together, we’ll wrap up with a hands-on treasure hunt challenge using the Forma Build mobile app. Attendees will explore a live project to locate hidden assets placed around the conference—demonstrating just how powerful and fun effective asset management can be.

15p

26p

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024

Megatunnels You've Never Heard Of: Data-Driven Strategies for Infrastructure Owners

Constructing $7 billion megatunnels over a decade, with a century-long maintenance commitment, presents unprecedented challenges for reliability, longevity, and societal impact. Traditional approaches like DBFM procurement and sequential design and construction prove inadequate for such monumental projects. However, the infrastructure owner, Lantis, has been at the forefront of pioneering project delivery and asset management standards. This case study will unveil the results from a pilot partnership with Autodesk and Esri, showcasing the Infrastructure Asset Management 5.0 journey. It will emphasize the transformative role that data accessibility and availability play for all stakeholders. Learn about the benefits of cloud-based collaboration and building information modeling (BIM)—not for only design, but extended into operations. Discover how, amid an ever-changing urban environment and a supply chain of national proportions, owners can use the power of dashboards to strive for zero unplanned infrastructure downtime.

61p

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025

What Would You Do? Simulating Critical Field Choices with Forma Build.

When things go sideways in the field, what would *you* do? In this interactive, hands-on lab, you'll be dropped into 10 high-pressure, real-world field scenarios. Each one will challenge you to make critical decisions using Forma Build software’s interconnected tools. Do you open an Issue or log a Form? Do you link Assets or refer to the latest Sheet set? The choice is yours—and every choice has consequences. Participants will simulate the workflows of real field teams: creating Issues, completing Forms, referencing Sheets, tracking Assets, and seeing how these tools work together to bring clarity and control to field operations. You’ll get to compare your team’s decision path against others and discuss what worked and what didn’t. This won’t be a lecture—it’ll be an immersive simulation that will test your instincts and teach best practices by doing.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025

Cleanup on Aisle 5: Creating and Preparing a Digital Prototyping for Use with Autodesk Tandem

In this session, you’ll learn effective methods for building, refining, and maintaining a Digital Prototyping with Autodesk Tandem software.

26p

1 - 20 of 411 results