Traditional estimation methods for new build and renovation projects involve hours manually measuring the physical space. If you're lucky, the 2D drawing or a 3D "model fairy” has blessed you with somewhat accurate drawings at best. But, in most situations, we don't hold our breath. Brandt recognized they could divert time spent on multiple site visits to other critical project needs by bringing reality capture to their estimation process. With one Matterport scan, Brandt built a great foundation of project information using the digital twin to collect, document, and record spaces for quick reference to create long-term value for their clients. Learn how Brandt built remote estimation into their projects, saving time and money by reallocating resources to more critical tasks, all while minimizing disruption within their estimating team. The result for Brandt was the same. Accurate and reliable estimates, but in less time without the overhead costs involving multiple site visits.

AutoCAD paves the way for collaboration across people, devices, and platforms that is designed to help decision-makers optimize their workflows. Learn about how you can further enhance and simplify this experience for your teams by leveraging a complete cloud-based document management and common data environment with Autodesk Docs.

SSOE Group leadership panel is open to share their experiences regarding SSOE's technology journey. They will discuss how we employed a flexible formula to balance technology pace with our annual planning needs. We'll reflect on our current state, continuous improvement ideas, business drivers, and embracing new technologies. The panel will talk about the pace of change, the tools and partnerships, and how these bring both opportunities and obstacles to projects and staff. SSOE's strategy for growth, emerging market presence, and efficiency demanded investments in enterprise platforms and people, enabling us to become a more digitally mature organization. We supported the early adoption of Autodesk Construction Cloud that unlocked vast amounts of automation potential and data collection. In less than three years, we autonomously created 3,000 projects just in time for teams to begin working. Our data goals continue to grow as we explore partnerships to build better ways to transform data to users.

The design process has undergone significant changes in the last decade. Building information modeling (BIM) has revolutionized the way professionals design, plan, and manage projects. However, despite the numerous advantages of BIM, there is still untapped potential in the data generated throughout the design process. Analyzing data from Revit software and other sources can help designers make informed decisions about a design, ensuring that it meets the project's goals and objectives. Moreover, data empowers designers to explore more design options, and AI-assisted generative design tools can analyze data and provide optimized solutions. The data is stored in a centralized cloud database that's easily accessible, enabling the designers to quickly access and analyze it, making the design process more efficient. In this class, we'll identify four key phases to successfully capturing design data on projects: connection/integration, data syncing, visualization, and monitoring.

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 Autodesk Docs 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.

By 2030, Norway must reduce CO2-emissions by 55% compared with the reference year of 1990. The current rehabilitation rate in Norway is between 1 and 1.4% of the total building stock, even though research shows that upgrading existing conditions is the fastest way to reduce a buildings footprint on the climate. In a step to reduce emissions, new Norwegian legislation also specifies that all buildings that are planned to be demolished must undergo a reuse mapping assessment. This has fueled a wave of innovation in the AEC sector to meet these governmental demands and promote rehabilitation as the way forward. Nordic Office of Architecture, in collaboration with Tvinn Solutions, is exploring how technology can contribute to the optimalization of rehabilitation project workflows. Several in-house case studies were used to help understand the biggest risks and frustrations associated with rehabilitation projects, develop innovative solutions for minimalizing risk, and to measure results when architects held the ability to incorporate reused elements directly in their native design environment. These solutions were focused around having digitalized the necessary building information early in the design process, semi-automatizing the modelling and data management of the existing conditions, digital workflows for the integration of donor and closed market reuse and on the reduction of construction waste through design.

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Owner requirements are becoming more demanding. Designs are becoming more complex. The shortage of skilled labor continues to grow. And, meanwhile, construction's poor productivity rates fail to improve. How do we respond to this challenging industry landscape? So much of the conversation has revolved around BIM (Building Information Modeling); however, BIM is not the answer. It is, however, the beginning of the answer. In this session, we will explore how BIM, if properly implemented, can become a powerful enabler of efficiently and elegantly executed projects. We will dive into scan-to-BIM workflows, automated field construction, prefabrication, and industrialized construction. By drawing on experience implementing BIM on more than 500-plus projects, we’ll reveal trends and highlight successes and failures, so attendees will leave with a greater understanding of how to make the most of their intelligent models. Get a glimpse into life after BIM.

Digital twins for building owners are emerging tools for facilities management, operations, and maintenance. The large benefits of digital twins to overall businesses beyond traditional practice are just being realized. As an iteration of digital twins from the digital manufacturing, product, and machine space, the current industry definition is this: Digital twins are software representations of assets, and processes that are used to understand, predict, and optimize performance in order to achieve improved business outcomes. Digital twins consist of three components: a data model, a set of analytics or algorithms, and knowledge. This roundtable will be jointly hosted by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (WDPR), Brandon Wlosinski and Autodesk Consulting, and Dorian Chau to explore, define, and understand what digital twins mean for the building industry today. Bob Bray, senior director at ConstrucTwin at Autodesk, will provide his insights to the roundtable, as will other invited enterprise building owners.

Over the last decade the construction industry has been through a rapid pace of change, with the whole supply chain starting to digitize critical processes and workflows alongside the relentless use of emerging technologies across the jobsite. With new technology and innovative practices becoming the norm, what does the future of construction project management—and more importantly, the project manager—look like? This session will explore how digital processes are improving the way we work, walk through the upcoming technologies to be aware of, and examine how you can include these in your company road map to prepare for the future while not neglecting the need to provide scalable solutions to improve business outcomes today.

With a campus in rural Rwanda—more than 100 kilometers from the capital Kigali, half of which is unpaved road—the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) always planned to deploy BIM 360 Ops software to support and sustain facility maintenance functions. A pioneering global health science university, UGHE had proactive facilities maintenance as a top priority when opening their campus in January 2019. In April 2020, our team helped to facilitate the launch of BIM 360 Ops during COVID-19. Working remotely with UGHE’s facilities maintenance team, Skanska uploaded information to support the computerized maintenance management system. Using BIM 360 Ops, UGHE’s staff and outsourced service contractors share maintenance information across the 350,000-square-foot campus for an integrated facilities maintenance system. Attendees will learn best practices for asset and space naming, traditional and alternative strategies for managing preventative maintenance, and ways in which to virtually deploy BIM 360 Ops during COVID-19.

Last year we did a class (“How to Use Fusion 360 and Inventor for Effective Designs”) where we linked Fusion 360 files with Inventor using Desktop Connector. The most requested addition to that was to link those files into Vault software, so this year we’ll go through some of the different configurations for how we can load and manage these Fusion 360 files in Vault. Some of the things we will look at include creating the connection and adding the files, as well as managing the files; and we’ll also discuss version and revisions of the files in Vault.

This masterclass will cover how to link PlanGrid with next-generation BIM 360 Docs software by utilizing the power of data collection through BIM 360 workflows and PlanGrid field reports. The speaker will be able to demonstrate the added benefit of being able to maximize data for trend analysis via Microsoft Power Bi and automatic modeling by integrating the output with Dynamo software. We will cover basic principles of PlanGrid and usability for the average user, alongside best practices, work-arounds, shortcuts, limitations, and benefits. We will explore an array of case studies, giving live project application examples and how they’ve integrated with external tools, such as What3Words.

Have you ever wanted to automate complicated or time-consuming design processes? Maybe you've been intimidated at the idea of learning how to program, or even where to start? In this class, you'll learn how to write your first plug-in for AutoCAD software, using the C# language. If you've already started your programming journey, you'll benefit from learning some coding best practices. Join a two-time Autodesk University Top Speaker for this exciting introduction to programming in AutoCAD.

In this class, we will get in-depth with the Sheet Set Manager and discuss and create sheets and sheet sets. We will learn about custom properties and how to use them to store huge amounts of reusable data. We will learn about sheet views and how to use them to make adding our design details to the plans a breeze. We will discuss how we can use the Sheet Set Manager as a lightweight project explorer to navigate all our projects’ design files. We will discuss and learn about labeling our sheets and sheet views. We will learn how to create blocks with predefined attributes that will fill in data from the sheet set automatically. We will learn how to quickly plot or publish individual or multiple sheets with minimal clicks. Lastly, we will learn how to organize our sheets with subsets or with selection sets to track additional stages in the design or construction processes.

Last year we brought you “Tips, Tricks, and the Future for Forge Model Derivative Services.” We’re bringing even more goodies to this year’s presentation. We will include more details around the Revit flag to generate rooms and spaces for viewing. We will cover how you can use the model derivative data to do model version comparison. Finally, again we will preview some of the coming features in Model Derivative Service, including the improved SVF2 Forge Viewer format.

Looking to better optimize your Autodesk software? In this session, a leading consultancy shares never before seen access to their customized licensing dashboard that you can create for your own users. We have exclusive interviews with industry leaders from top companies, who will opening up about their Flex management for the first time ever. They'll be revealing the key steps they took to successfully implement and maximize Flex so you can start achieving your goals faster. Whether you are new to Flex or looking to level up your Flex management skills, you will not want to miss what our guest speakers have to share. This session was requested by customers just like you. Although Flex, Autodesk's pay-as-you-go option, has helped many of you achieve substantial cost savings in the past couple of years, we realized that we needed to discuss how you can leverage Flex to create value beyond cost savings. Avoid the mistakes by hearing how your peers manage Flex to meet their specific needs. You will leave this session ready to assess how you can tackle your own day to day challenges with Flex. If you previously believed that Flex only benefits teams with occasional users, please join us to find out how Flex can work for you!

Design-and-make projects are complex. They generate tons of files and versions, which leaves Autodesk customers to build bespoke collaboration pipelines to share files that are costly to translate, transfer, and store. These files/versions need to be manually reconciled, which results in loss of time and money. On top of that, files present a threat to our customers' intellectual property since the entire design file needs to be shared with a contractor just to access the relevant subset that the contractor should work on. It's quite apparent that we need better design-make data management. Introducing Autodesk Data Models! By breaking up files into valuable bits of data stored and managed on the Autodesk Data platform, we provide YOU, our valued customer, with a source of truth that you can rely on to build better workflows to achieve your goals. In this panel discussion, we will talk about what Autodesk Data Models are, why they are important, and what value gets unlocked for each industry.

Autodesk Platform Services is the industry-leading design-and-make platform as a service, making available to external developers and businesses the same technology used by Autodesk's SaaS solutions. This class will focus on industry trends, technology insights, and business strategies maximizing Autodesk Platform Services to accelerate the success of your product. This class will help developers, customers, and business partners maximize all the tools and resources that Autodesk provides to make sure that your products that are built on top of Autodesk Platform Services are as successful as possible. These include tools and resources to help you learn and use Autodesk Platform Services. And we'll cover how to improve product awareness, marketing, sales, and more. We'll also include information about industry trends that we are seeing, and we'll look at several case studies to help you see how products in multiple industries have become successful using Autodesk Platform Services.