Following the success of Ivana’s AU2021 Top Rated Construction Session, we'll dig deeper into the implementation of Autodesk Construction Cloud across a large business. With ACC/Unified starting to get real traction, we'll look into the benefits of using it. Tools like ACC/BIM 360 and Assemble enabled us at Mace to improve collaboration and coordination in the office, manage quality in the field better, analyze data and get quick material take-offs to support design changes and our Net Zero Carbon initiatives. As we've seen massive improvements in the way we analyze and access data, this session will help you to standardize your projects and set up an effective reporting system from Day 1. Still not convinced you'll be able to implement ACC in your company? We'll talk about winning people over and enabling them to succeed. Going through our latest and greatest case studies will help you to push the boundaries of ambition by driving innovation and the use of technology every day.

Find out advantages of new Autodesk's generative techniques have over well-known optimization methods. This will be explained using 2 next-generation technologies: Generative Modeling and Generative Design. The session will give you a solid understanding in differences and how to apply the two techniques. You will learn how to verify results in simulation environment of Fusion 360 and Inventor Nastran, how to interpret safety factor and vonMises stress values. Safely removing a significant amount of material without fear of structural failure is not easy, but you will see how to do it easily and safely. You will learn how to using Fusion 360 to increase product development agility and optimize the design to manufacturing process. Generative Design capabilities are in Fusion 360 and Inventor. It is possible to verify one design in different Autodesk softwares thanks to cloud collaboration. You will have opportunity to get your questions directly to the people creating new features.

Do you want to learn how assemblies with lots of moving parts behave when they undergo a high speed impact (aka crash) ? Autodesk's powerful explicit solver is the tool for you. The solver allows you to investigate real-world crashes. You will see a bus crashing into a road barrier, and the collapse of a concrete block on a construction crane. You will discover how it works under the hood based on these two real accidents. Learn how large models crash and deform in real life and how to choose the correct values for many parameters. Event simulation is available in Fusion 360 and Inventor Nastran. Both uses new solvers: ED (explicit dynamic) and QS (quasi static). It is possible to verify one design in different Autodesk software thanks to their cloud collaboration. The session will give you a solid understanding how event simulation solver works. You will have opportunity to get your questions answered and to provide feedback directly to the people creating new features.

Learn from the Product Managers how the Autodesk and Esri partnership is advancing design and GIS collaboration that benefits the AEC and Owner Operators. The intersection of BIM, CAD, and GIS provides incredible insights to enhance project delivery at every level. The functionality between Autodesk and Esri desktops, and collaborative web applications like ArcGIS GeoBIM are improving workflows and transparency for project teams. The improvements in direct support for RVT, DWG, and IFC in ArcGIS Pro, and support for hosted GIS feature service in Civil3D, Infraworks, Map3D, and AutoCAD help bring together design and GIS data. The direct cloud connection between the Autodesk Construction Cloud and ArcGIS Online/Enterprise offers exponential benefits to help manage the project content for stakeholders. The ability to publish Autodesk data directly to ArcGIS Online/Enterprise for use in shared web and field applications expands the value of the data far beyond the design professionals.

This class aims to show the implementation of a powerful Common Data Environment, using ACC & BIM360 platforms combined with an application developed in Forge, for the management of hospital project data. With the Grand Paris North Hospital project, intended to be the largest hospital in Paris, France, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Brunet Saunier Architecture, we will explain the implementation of data workflows in order to build optimized circuits to involve all project stakeholders, planners, owner, users, architects and all engineers’ firms with Collaborate Pro and Docs (design collaboration, model coordination and issues management) More than 100 people! We will show how a connected Forge application will collect data from ACC in order to push automation processes in data analysis and deliverables creation. We will do a live demonstration of this real Forge-based BIM Data Checker enabling data processes throughout the project life cycle, from plan to operation.

If the metaverse is ever to realize its potential, it must be open. Content creation must be accessible, and the content itself must be portable across different devices and contexts from eCommerce to multi-user gaming to real-time collaboration. In short, the metaverse needs open standards. No one company will own the metaverse – and no one SDO will define its underlying standards. In this session, Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group, will explore the constellation of open standards, open source software projects, and organizations who are currently working to evolve formats and standards for 3D content creation to support metaverse applications. He’ll discuss how these organizations are working to identify and address barriers and gaps in standards, tooling, and resources; how collaboration across organizations is evolving; and how companies and individuals can get involved.

In 2018 SYSTRA has launched a R&D program called DEV4BIM to take benefit of the BIM data created on our projects and move towards a data centric engineering approach. This strategy has been intimately linked to autodesk strategy and promises to develop an open platform more data centric giving us the possibility to develop our own digital solutions that could be integrated in efficient digital engineering processes. This class will first showcase the key results of these 4 years of R&D and the impact on our BIM program. We will also share our lessons learnt on Autodesk journey towards this platform as a service approach. The 2nd part of the class will give insight on our digital twin innovation strategy and our expectations towards Autodesk to help us ensure effective WLC data continuity . Indeed, we are convinced that efficient collaboration with Editors is key to develop Digital twin solutions & services to develop sustainable asset management of Railway infrastructures.

Building projects are already realized with the innovative Autodesk Construction Cloud, a data and collaboration platform enabling different planning disciplines and teams to work together in a common data environment. In a factory planning project those planning disciplines are enhanced with teams needing to integrate complex production lines, conveyor systems, steel structure and even logistics equipment. Hidden behind firewalls, software installed and running on-premise forces teams to handle time consuming & inefficient data exchange, disconnected collaboration tracking processes and inadequate viewing & reviewing tasks. This class demonstrates how Autodesk’s cloud services make it possible to efficiently exchange data between on-premise systems and cloud solutions (off-premise). We showcase and provide a best practice approach, how to set up a model coordination space in BIM Collaborate Pro to manage a holistic factory model, its clashes & issues and its review tasks.

A Prominent Federal Agency is renovating, preserving, and expanding two adjacent large historic buildings at the same time. The joint venture FORTUS assembled a 200-person, 23-consultant design team for this project. The team went on to develop 40+ Revit models totaling over 15 GB with an additional 4,295 scans of point cloud data. To facilitate such a large endeavor, FORTUS employed common best practices of Revit and BIM 360. In this class we will discuss the best practices that held up, expose the ones that struggled, and reveal newly discovered ones. The best practices we will cover focus on project setup, collaboration and communication standards, dividing up models and teams, alternate design options, point clouds, building orientation, BIM 360 Model Coordination, and QA\QC tools.

The class will encompass creating a Design technology vision and mission for a firm. We will focus on elements and processes of implementing and executing firm wide Digital execution plan, The class will encompass building the standards at program and project level. The path to a successful Design leadership lies in meticulous planning and diligent execution of Digital Standards. Establishing the baselines for milestones and ensuring the plan has agile and resilient pivot modules to adapt. The class will show the process to build accountability matrix and building Key performance Indicators (KPI's) to ensure streamlined program and project delivery. The class will highlight the development of quarterly goals and monitoring and tracking of goals. Successful leadership is to build and foster an environment of successful Innovation. This class will be a great opportunity for budding Design Technologists to gain insight and holistic overview of implementing the vision " The Right Way".

In this session, you will learn how implementing real-time rendering with Enscape will speed up your daily design workflow and help improve communication with all stakeholders. From sun studies in the early stages of design to rapid iteration and improved collaboration within your BIM project, see how it’s done with Enscape. You will also experience the quick and easy V-Ray workflow to create photorealistic renderings in Revit, get a glimpse into our future development plans for Enscape and V-Ray, and get a sneak peek at V-Ray 6 for Revit.

The D&M market presents numerous challenges and opportunities, we increasingly see data integration as a key factor in the evolution of digital maturation. Talking about Vault, Fusion Team or Fusion Manage without thinking about how your customer's entire chain benefits are often vague and meaningless. In this session, we will present how the Vault + Fusion Team integration dynamically enables the collaboration of the information released by the Vault with any employee or outsourced company, in addition we will present a practical case of the COPAL client (Colgate Palmolive) that through readings via QRCODE allows any employee or third party to access information relevant to an electrical panel in the Industrial Plant, with the most up-to-date version available on the Fusion Team.

Learn how Nvidia Omniverse can help unlock collaboration and simulation at enterprise scale. Leveraging the full capabilities of GPU computing we will explore various AEC workflows from conceptual design, CFD, Energy Simulations, and IOT leveraging a platform built for AI enhanced full scale data and real time feedback. We will explore workflows that enhance your interactions with the tools you use, not replace them. Leveraging data connection between Revit, 3D studio Max, Maya, and many others.

A case study from The Red Sea Development to share lessons learned from the design, manufacture and assembly of a large complex mass timber structure. In this session, we will demonstrate the best practices from the owner's perspective for defining the BIM requirements and processes to ensure the success of our OSM projects. Imagine 4 timber-framed, double curved, 100-foot span roofs, designed in London, manufactured in Switzerland, shipped to Jeddah, and assembled at a remote site. We'll share our experience of evaluating BIM formats, determining preferred solutions for the interoperability between Revit, Rhino & CadWork, to support the designers, timber manufacturing and contractors to deliver the luxury building. Our teams used BIM360 for the model collaboration for review of design and coordination issues and we learned how to leverage the tools and platform to solve complex challenges, improve our quality control processes and ultimately deliver the project on-site.

Join Adam Glass from Advance2000 and Michael McCaslin from Lanier and Associates, based in New Orleans, as they highlight the benefits, pitfalls and successes firms can experience when partnering with a cloud provider. As the workplace or “Cloud Space '' continues to grow and evolve; Architecture, Engineering, Design and Construction firms are experiencing real tangible benefits. Real-time collaboration, unlimited scalability, global mobility and increased security after migrating to a cloud infrastructure. These case studies will walk you through their migration, struggles, and overall successes with the cloud.

As educators, do you have exciting projects or ideas that you want to reach out to industry for collaboration, mentorship, or support, but you run into barriers or have no ideas how to do it? Vice versa, as an industry person, you wanted to partner with academia to collaborate on your projects, test your products, and recruit a diverse workforce but you are not sure how to do it or do not have an effective approach? This hands-on “workshop” provides a set of best practices based on our successful collaboration. You will work in small groups to brainstorm approaches on how to form productive partnerships. You’ll walk away with an actionable plan to form the industry-academic collaboration/partnership that you can execute when you go home! You will also have the opportunity to network with other professionals.

See how to leverage technology convergence from a Digital Twin over the entire building assets and operations life-cycle. Key topics related to corporate real estate management (CREM) include: • The effects real estate has on all three main financial statements: Cash flow, Income, Balance Sheet • Real estate is one of the largest costs for manufacturing companies outside of material and personnel • CREM influences tactical operational performances such as labor productivity, well-being, satisfaction & motivation and strategic ones such as corporate identity fit • For brownfield projects, the aim is to achieve an optimum of the lowest possible vacancy rate, flexibility and adaptability to changes in the company Technology solutions for CREM are improving Project Collaboration, Energy Consumption, and Space Management. Proven ROI includes: • 10% space reduction entire portfolio, • 18% reduction in non-value adding task in Facility Management • and 3% in construction material cost

As the construction industry continues to benefit from the adoption of digital tools, old-school manual estimating techniques are quickly becoming obsolete. The better way? ProEst, the latest addition to Autodesk Construction Cloud. In this session, we’ll take a closer look at how the advanced automation features of ProEst can improve bidding accuracy, reduce estimating time and increase visibility into key project metrics. We’ll demonstrate how the cloud-based ProEst platform streamlines preconstruction workflows to save time and money—and how your teams can benefit from new levels of connectivity and collaboration.

Our panel of experts in the fields of construction, entertainment, and technology will share their learnings and successes from previous applications of eXtended Reality (AR/VR) and illustrate how these inform future plans to build XR capabilities in Construction and Entertainment industries. With a mix of customers and Autodesk experts, we will focus on how extended reality can fuel collaboration and drive innovative results.

The buzz around AI, VR, and Digital Twins in manufacturing can be overwhelming. In reality, these technologies can add real value to your firm. Even though 73% of manufacturers believe digital technologies will increase ROI, more than half have yet to implement them. Autodesk Foundation and Microdesk Co-Innovation Lab partnered with Pallet Shelter, a rapidly growing startup with a mission to combat homelessness, workforce development and promote sustainable communities. Through this collaboration, Pallet Shelter is strengthening channels of communication & means of storing and sharing data by implementing solutions from the Autodesk Ecosystem. With centrally accessible documentation and built-in business procedures, unifying the firm on a Common Data Environment (CDE) gives key stakeholders insight into the design process. This infrastructure supports the company's rapid and long-term expansion.