University Technical College (UTC) Leeds is a new type of school in the United Kingdom for 14 to 18 year olds. Using Fusion 360 software, UTC Leeds has created a global classroom where students can work alongside industry professionals virtually, via Fusion 360 software’s collaborative features. Students are set challenging briefs designed specially to encourage virtual collaboration within Fusion 360 software. Pedagogically, students practice an iterative design process using 3D printing for its true value, before feeding back into Fusion 360 software’s collaborative environment. This class demonstrates real case studies and presents the pedagogical approach for teaching high-quality digital skills to students. The class creates a foundation for how Fusion 360 software and 3D printing can unite to create a world-class curriculum. Students opting to study at a UTC aspire to work within the engineering sector. The United Kingdom has a shortfall of engineers, with an estimated 1.2 million needed by 2020. This session features Fusion 360.

This course starts with the assumption that many CAD / Building Information Modeling (BIM) managers have little to no direct managerial authority over the staffers they support, yet they're still expected to get results. To make things worse, many times these managers are also engineers, architects, or designers working under severe time constraints while expected to remain billable. This course will present strategies for peer-to-peer interaction with users and project managers that can help you persuade people to comply with key CAD/BIM management directives such as standards, file storage, training, and interdepartmental coordination. If you fit the peer-to-peer CAD/BIM manager profile, you're sure to pick up some solid ideas you can use immediately. And even if you do have full managerial authority, you can still benefit from using some of these collaborative and persuasive strategies. This class is designed for managers of numerous disciplines.

Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the history of the United States. Phase 2, The Western Yard, will include 6.2 million square feet of building space, spanning several residential towers, an office complex, and a school. The problem? It’s being constructed over-top 30 active train tracks, 3 rail tunnels, and major utilities, and alongside viaducts, busy roadways, and one of New York City’s most popular tourist attractions: The Highline. How does a complex network of architecture, engineering, and construction stakeholders ensure that existing conditions are being properly accounted for during design? The solution? Mix 2 tablespoons of laser scans with acres of topographic surveys, old utility maps, and as-builts to create a large-scale, precise, 3D Revit model of the entire site. During this presentation, Timothy O’Connor from Langan will join Kyle Hudson from VIATechnik to discuss the workflows, challenges, and benefits associated with collecting and digitizing this massive amount of infrastructure data.

You think technology is great, but sometimes those you’re training clearly do not. Designed for software trainers and educators, attendees of this workshop will gain insight into pedagogical strategies aimed at helping students navigate the constantly changing—and sometimes frustrating—process of learning software. The presenter will outline teaching approaches that have been shown to increase motivation, including how to help learners bring autonomy, competency, and value to their learning. The presenter will share examples of how to practically integrate innovative teaching practices into both short software workshops and semester-long college courses, as well as provide example handouts aimed at helping students retain information.

This interview-style industry talk will take a deep dive into how Saunders Construction implements and delivers scanning technology. Matt Hamann, integrated services manager at Saunders, will lead us through his real-world experiences with LIDAR (light detection and ranging) workflows and processes. Saunders has been providing and utilizing high-definition laser scanning for the last few years over a wide variety of project types with many different needs. The main distinguishing factor setting Saunders apart in the laser scanning community is the firm's ability to deliver data that is highly valuable and immediately useful to the clients as well as job-site teams. By taking the time to clearly identify the client's goals of the scans, Saunders can formulate a plan and provide a proposal of services to reach the end goal. The end deliverable will be outlined clearly, including point cloud accuracy, training time, and the provision of technical assistance as needed.

In order to meet construction demand, the industry needs more people devoted to technology. How do you become the person in your company who challenges processes, researches new tools, and pushes innovation? Perspectives provided by an industry association, a trade contractor, and a union training center are working together to address this issue.

Have you ever said to yourself, “We pay for modern software tools, CAD managers, IT, hardware, implementation,and training, but I can’t help feeling we aren’t getting all the productivity we should have.”? In my experience, most senior management staffs have thought this at some point—but why? In this class, we’ll explore the role senior management can play in making new tools perform through motivation, CAD management intervention, implementing mission goals, customer interaction, and expectation management. Along the way, we’ll explore the key failure modes that impede technology productivity that CAD managers and users often miss. These include poor user psychology, contractual barriers, negative peer pressure, and lack of mission focus. Make no mistake, senior management really does have a role in rolling out new software technology, and this session will help you understand that role better so you can get the most from your software environment.

Many CAD and Building Information Modeling (BIM) managers have little to no direct managerial authority over the staffers they support, yet they're still expected to get results. To make things worse, many times these managers are also engineers, architects, or designers working under severe time constraints while expected to remain billable. This discussion will focus on strategies for peer-to-peer interaction with users and project managers that can help you persuade people to comply with key CAD/BIM management directives like standards, file storage, training, and interdepartmental coordination. If you fit the peer-to-peer CAD/BIM-manager profile you're sure to pick up some solid ideas you can use immediately. And even if you do have full managerial authority, you can still benefit from using some of these collaborative and persuasive strategies. This class is designed for managers of multiple disciplines.

The 65,000-square-meter (70,000-square-foot) offices of Ilot Fontenoy-Ségur (IFS)—located in the heart of Paris’s 7th arrondissement near the Eiffel Tower—is a major renovation project for the French government. The client’s most notable requirement is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) model with facility-management capabilities. Our team at VINCI Construction France is currently in charge of BIM management for this project, which includes providing Revit software templates for architecture, structure, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) to all stakeholders. We also ensure the training of all the project members involved and the review of all models according to a predefined BIM-guideline set up in partnership with the facility manager (data codification, levels of details, and information). In addition to Revit software, we also used Revit software’s API and BIMLink to quickly implement information. All the 3D models are used during the current construction phase for 3D coordination, quantity takeoffs, drawings, and on-site communication with our building workers.

You may have at times said to yourself, “We pay for modern software tools, hardware, implementation, and training, but I can’t help feeling that we aren’t getting all the productivity we should have.” In this session we’ll ponder why some companies succeed with new software while others flounder, and we’ll explore the key role the CAD/Building Information Modeling (BIM) manager can play in achieving the success that leads to high productivity. We’ll cover defining your CAD tools and finding technology accelerators, and we’ll also look at test piloting, training ladder methodologies, project management-based tool analysis, and the profound impact of mission management when implementing software. If you are responsible for CAD/BIM management, training, or project execution using CAD tools, you won’t want to miss this session.

This roundtable session is a follow-up discussion to CR2789: Visual Planning: BIM for Safety. The session briefly covers the highlights of the lecture and poses some specific questions to the group about how the concept could be used in innovative ways. The session takes the form of a brainstorming session and value analysis exercise. The floor is open for all ideas, and attendees receive aggregated notes and thoughts from the session as a takeaway. Not everyone is aware of all associated risks and hazards involved with complicated construction operations, even the professionals who perform those tasks every day. Special training is required before commencing this type of challenging and potentially dangerous work. This is where BIM aids in communication and training in a safe environment. BIM safety models can present both correct and incorrect practices side-by-side for comparison.

Small firms are often left behind when it comes to technology and training. From a small-firm perspective, this class explores the implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, including 3D scanning, ReCap software, Revit software, Navisworks software, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This class will attempt to define workflow processes that work in a smaller firm and that will not overwhelm users. We will define level of development (LOD) levels and differences in BIM practices from traditional construction documentation practices. We will discuss how to get staff on board with BIM technology changes and how to define your company’s BIM mission statement by using real-world examples and case studies.

3D printing has the ability to empower clinicians. This class will focus on the benefits of using or starting a hospital-based 3D design and printing program to help design new training models and assist with improving patient care. This session features Fusion 360.

So you’ve been asked to get the staff trained on new software and/or procedures. Whether you plan to do it in-house or contract it out, careful planning will help ensure that the experience is positive for all parties involved. So where should you begin? Having a clear set of expectations at each stage of the effort is critical to a successful outcome, but having a very clear idea of the desired overall outcome is a great place to start. There are plenty of other considerations: Should you do the training in-house or send your team to an established institution? How about an external consultant? What about training materials and learning content? Should you perform pre-assessments and post-assessments of attendees’ skill level? In this session, we’ll explore all of these issues and questions and more. And at the end, you will have a solid road map that you can adapt to your own situation, giving you the tools and strategies needed to design a successful training delivery system for your organization.

This course will start with the assumption that many CAD / Building Information Modeling (BIM) managers have little to no direct managerial authority over the staffers they support, yet they're still expected to get results. To make things worse, many times these managers are also engineers, architects, or designers working under severe time constraints while expected to remain billable. This course will present strategies for peer-to-peer interaction with users and project managers that can help you persuade people to comply with key CAD/BIM management directives such as standards, file storage, training, and interdepartmental coordination. If you fit the peer-to-peer CAD/BIM manager profile, you're sure to pick up some solid ideas you can use immediately. And even if you do have full managerial authority, you can still benefit from using some of these collaborative and persuasive strategies. This class is designed for managers of numerous disciplines.

Transformation of engineering education has been a recent concern in the education and industry communities, with a call to integrate "science" and "application" through design. With health topping today’s issues, design of medical devices has become a major candidate for design applications to be taught to engineering undergraduates. This class describes the preparation and the delivery of an education module where rigorous subjects such as kinematics and strength of materials are taught in the context of designing medical devices. Autodesk® ForceEffect™ and Autodesk® ForceEffect™ Motion software are used to introduce concepts such as force and moment, and Autodesk® Inventor® Professional software is used to develop, simulate, and manufacture the devices designed by the students. This class covers a general design concept, followed by a case study that details design of a tissue microarrayer. This approach, due to its contextual nature, is also applicable to industry training centers.

There is no better industry sector for achieving operational excellence than downstream oil and gas (refining and chemicals). The myriad of operational challenges these plants face—such as the sheer number of workers, the hazards of the processes, and the high operational costs—makes this industry an ideal test bed for tech innovation. Although many of AutoCAD software’s solutions are perfectly optimized for the construction and design phase of a project in these industries, the challenge in industry is how do owners and operators utilize these complex models, data, and information in the real world? Through this training, the presenter will share what Environmental Intellect (Ei) is doing to merge the construction phase of the project with the operations phase of owner-operator handoff, and how we’re capitalizing on advanced technologies to deliver truly virtual operations for forward-thinking customers in heavy industries.

Learn how to get your team up to speed with the latest technology in construction. Gain insight into problems commonly, or maybe not so commonly, facing BIM (Building Information Modeling) related to construction, such as scope gaps, language barriers, and quality assurance. Learn from our experiences on some of our premier projects, including Little Caesars Arena; Mount Carmel Hospital, Grove City; Aloft Magnificent Mile, Chicago; Oak Park South Boulevard; and Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium. See how capitalizing on software such as Revit software, BIM 360 Glue software, Navisworks software, and BIM 360 Field software can make your life easier in solving some of these problems.

Software asset management is a valuable process for companies of any size. Having the ability to track license ownership and use will better ensure that you’re making the best use of your existing assets and will help you to avoid costly license compliance issues. Drew Jarvis—a Verafirm-certified software asset management professional—will take you through the benefits, best practice, and possible pitfalls of software asset management, along with practical implementation via the use of Network Inventory software. Come to this class and start making use of this powerful business driver in your organization. AIA Approved

Your mindset develops over years of learning and service. Your technical skills are top notch. Your management skills are advanced. Your leadership moves things forward. Want to make an even greater impact? Tech managers (CAD / Building Information Modeling (BIM) / IT) can develop a mindset that perpetuates success. It’s an approach that you take when you enter into planning, preparation, negotiations, or problems. We will look at this topic from the overall vantage point of what your framework should be when you are thinking about tech-management issues. Managing tech goes beyond the technical, people, and project-management skills that you have to get right. It starts with your mindset and ends with you creating an innovative environment for achievement. AIA Approved