This class will be delivered by Hill Construction, a U.K.-based housebuilder, supported by Topcon Corporation and Autodesk, Inc. Hill Construction will describe its Building Information Modeling (BIM) journey so far, and how the firm has applied BIM 360 tools into its workflows on a complex construction project undertaken by Hill Bespoke in Cambridge, England. The class will cover how using a variety of mass-data capture techniques to gather as-built documentation combined with integrated on-site verification and management has improved efficiencies and reduced errors using innovative new workflows. Hill will describe the impact of these new workflows incorporating software (including BIM 360 Field cloud service, BIM 360 Layout cloud service, BIM 360 Glue cloud service, and BIM 360 Docs cloud service) integrated with Topcon mass-data capture and layout solutions, and the efficiencies gained over traditional methods. We will show content and examples from the historically important housebuilding project combining both complex renovation with new-build processes. This session features BIM 360 Layout, BIM 360 Field, and BIM 360 Glue. AIA Approved

 Making and Learning coupled with academia’s culture of research and development has traditionally been the cornerstone of higher education especially at the graduate level. This tradition is however changing and the culture of innovation is beginning to spread across other levels of education ranging from secondary up through postsecondary. Students and educators empowered with cheaper and easily available digital technologies are inventing new computing solutions for various applications. Autodesk’s recently introduced Forge platform helps students and educators nurture innovative ideas and transform them into real and viable solutions. Forge offers academic entrepreneurs a network of experts, a rich community of practice, software development platform and resources to catalyze innovation.   Join this panel presentation and learn how educators and students have already benefitted from Forge’s features to enable the Future of Making.

Implementing new technologies in your company is always a challenge. Everything from getting approvals, licensing, training, testing and failing are just a part of the process. Once you get it right, then you need to document your findings and train your staff. In this case study you will learn about some of the business and technical challenges of a CFD implementation project in Costa Rica’s largest MEP Design Firm. After a brief introduction to CFD, we will cover how to get support from management, how to get appropriate training, documentation and other resources to help you get started. Finally, we will explore some of the difficulties encountered in implementing CFD and the strategies adopted to overcome them. This class will feature a real world forced ventilation example for basements as a case study.

Design products faster and get better results by learning how Fusion 360 software's modeling tools work under the hood. In this class, we'll describe best practices and advanced features in Fusion 360 software's Model, Patch, and Sculpt toolsets; provide modeling workflow tips and tricks; and explain how to avoid and overcome bad modeling practices. Come and learn how to improve your day-to-day modeling workflows and become an expert in Fusion 360 modeling.

Is your firm, office, or department Building Information Modeling (BIM) compliant? Good question! In this class, we will introduce and embrace the concept of BIM levels. Actually, without a structured method for managing projects, it’s difficult to enhance your BIM maturity. You’ll learn how to integrate BIM process within your organization. There will be a presentation of some standards, requirements, and protocols to set in order to reach BIM level 2, according to our vision of French users. To go further, we will outline full collaboration between all disciplines and Open BIM based on our experience. We will illustrate this class with some French case studies. This BIM-maturity analysis will cover the use of the following software systems: Revit software, Navisworks software, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software. This session features Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

In this interactive session, we will discuss how workflows are evolving with the cloud. We will discuss the difference between workflows that are procedural and those that mirror company processes. We will also discuss how training workflows can become job resource tools and vice versa. This interactive session will explore your custom training options and demonstrate how modern technology provides the opportunity to have the best of all worlds—the unique corporate knowledge of your own subject matter experts and lower cost than that involved in retaining a traditional training firm or funding in-house trainers. This session will show attendees how to improve both training development and effectiveness with just-in-time knowledge capture, course development, and learning options. This enables high-billable-rate professionals (both subject matter experts and their staff) to be project-ready on demand. And that all makes your company more competitive in future project bids.

Hansen Yuncken, Australia’s largest private general contractor, was the first in Australia to successfully complete an enterprise implementation of BIM 360 Field software, spanning over 100 projects in a single year. A more strategic and consistent approach has achieved greater returns and assurance through a streamlined system with integration to corporate systems achieving transparency and enterprise analytics. This session will cover best practices and skills learned from Hansen Yuncken’s approach to the implementation of BIM 360 Field software. It will cover techniques and the importance in the development of standardized project templates to support streamlined project establishment and organizational consistency. Learn some of the core concepts within the application that supports user efficiency in the field, along with training strategies to support all user levels. We will provide an introduction on the benefits and efficiencies achieved from enterprise system integration.

The BIM 360 products provide project teams with a range of options for project collaboration that differ from the traditional ways of conducting business and can intimidate new users. This class will focus on the development and advantages of a collaborative learning exercise between industry partners and academic institutions, with the goal of exposing students to real-world collaborative experiences they will face as they begin their careers in the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner-operated (AECO) industry. Learn how industry partners have the opportunity to push the boundaries of their BIM 360 utilization in a no-risk environment, while affording new employees valuable experience. Academics Nathan Blinn and Dr. Raymond Issa-with David Epps, director of construction technology for Winter Construction-will share their experiences with BIM 360 software, while providing a customizable blueprint for the development of your own BIM 360 learning exercise, complete with lessons learned and learning objectives.

Autodesk Buzzsaw cloud-based software provides a flexible means for introducing the power of the cloud into any existing workflow. This class will cover a combination of best practices, useful utilities, learning and training strategies, and ideas to maximize adoption across various disciplines and skill levels. If you have an existing Autodesk Buzzsaw site or you’re interested in taking advantage of the benefits of Autodesk Buzzsaw and its companion programs, this class is for you.

Whether your company has a rich history with Revit software or you've recently decided to take the plunge, developing and maintaining internal training is a tall order. BuroHappold Engineering New York has developed a thorough yet practical internal training program for its offices worldwide and would like to share the outcome of the challenges that were faced along the way. With 90% of the projects in our New York office being Revit-software based, new engineers have a limited amount of time to adjust to the technology and the corresponding company standards. This demand placed an enormous amount of pressure on the Building Information Modeling (BIM) Team to create a training program that was fast, furious, and efficient. You will leave with a clear understanding of the steps necessary for ensuring that engineers are ready to hit the ground running in Revit software projects.

Nine months ago Swinerton Incorporated’s IT Group was primarily focused on making technology tools and services available to our employees from a purely technical perspective. In order to continue our industry-leading position in project execution, we knew that we needed to embed more of our business processes into the delivery of IT services. The traditional understanding of what IT was responsible for delivering was thrown out of the window. We transformed the Information Technology Group to the Business Technology Group, with a significant emphasis on providing business support and training to get the highest return on our technology investments. As one of the most widely used tools on our job sites, BIM 360 Glue software and BIM 360 Field software got immediate attention under this new promotion, support, training, and cost-recovery strategy. From the "Country Club" cost-recovery model to our partnership with our virtual design and construction (VDC) and quality-control managers, learn how Swinerton is assuring our BIM 360 software return on investment.

Join Quentin Contreras (Autodesk) and Scott Hallmark (Applied Software) for a hands-on lab for creating AutoCAD Plant 3D projects in BIM 360 Team and Fusion Team (formerly A360 Team).

Whether your company has a rich history with Building Information Modeling (BIM) or you've recently decided to take the plunge, developing and maintaining internal training is a tall order. BuroHappold Engineering New York has developed a thorough yet practical internal training program for Revit software and Dynamo software for its offices worldwide, and the company would like to share the outcome of the challenges that it faced along the way. With 90% of the projects in the New York office being Revit based, new engineers have a limited amount of time to adjust to the technology and the corresponding company standards. This demand placed an enormous amount of pressure on the firm's BIM team to create a training program that was fast, furious, and efficient. Attendees of this presentation will leave with a clear understanding of the steps necessary for ensuring that engineers are ready to hit the ground running in Revit projects.

David will share corridor modeling lessons he has learned over the past 8 years thanks to his experiences with training people in AutoCAD Civil 3D software and supporting the integration of AutoCAD Civil 3D software into design processes. This class will take a broad look at the workflows in AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and we will discuss how to optimize them for successful corridor modeling applications. We will provide tips and guidelines for determining how to create assemblies, how to use conditional subassemblies, when to use offset assemblies, and what the competitive advantages are of developing custom subassemblies.

Civil3D training teaches us how to model simple corridors but what happens on real life projects? Those corridors are rarely simple. The aim of this class is to demonstrate some techniques to overcome issues such as irregular curve widening, urban SUDS features such as mini swales and rain gardens and footways/cycleways that vary multiple times throughout the length of the corridor. The class will also demonstrate how large urban piazzas, where there are no corridors, can be modelled while maintaining the surface layer construction. Finally we will look at the workflow for large projects where data must be split up to minimise regions to speed up rebuild times and the use of Navisworks to aggregate the data so that the complexities are visualised and validated and relation to surrounding buildings.

In this interactive lab, we'll learn how to navigate BIM 360 software and become Collaboration for Revit experts. We'll learn how to create collaborative projects, how to invite project contributors, and how to navigate the model in the cloud. Once we create the model, we'll learn how to publish the model for Live Reviews. We'll also review the cloud and mobile capabilities that BIM 360 Team software provides for expanded engagement from all users. We'll also review unique Collaboration for Revit features such as the Communicator, and we'll practice communicating with the project team within Revit software. In addition, we'll review how to effectively manage project contributors versus team members. Finally, we'll review how to troubleshoot with cloud Revit files by reviewing Journal Files. At the end of the class, you will be the new Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 expert. You will be able to host Revit models to the cloud for projects, communicate with the project team effectively, and invite the team to your projects.

Production planning. Last Planner System. Lean construction. These are all popular buzzwords in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry today. If you are not familiar with these and implementing them right now on your projects, this class is a must! This interactive workshop will address the problem of waste in planning and how the Last Planner System improves productivity and schedule reliability. We’ll introduce pull planning: a collaborative scheduling technique that enables teams to develop workflow working backward, thus enabling successor activities to determine what needs to be completed for them to start their work. We’ll put theory into practice in a hands-on, team-based, real-life construction and design simulation to emphasize the importance of pull versus push, reliable flow, and clear subcontractor commitments in the pull-planning process. The class will finish by showing how BIM 360 Plan web service helps the last planner by enabling teams to track task commitments and completion. This session features BIM 360 Plan and BIM 360 Field. AIA Approved

Autodesk Vehicle Tracking is much more than just vehicle swept path analysis. Come join us in this hands-on lab to find out for yourself how Vehicle Tracking in Civil 3D and InfraWorks can improve your project decision making. Vehicle Tracking allows even beginner users to make educated decisions concerning their individual projects. During this lab, we'll explore all the functions of Vehicle Tracking and design the following: starting a project in InfraWorks and then importing it into Vehicle Tracking to design a parking lot ; ensure our project design meets city standards; utilize the Vehicle Tracking information for detailed grading design; create a roundabout within the project; and much, much more. After this hands-on lab, you will have gained new skills that you can take back to the office and show others the many different ways to use Vehicle Tracking software, Civil 3D and InfraWorks. This session features Vehicle Tracking, AutoCAD Civil 3D and InfraWorks

Autodesk, Inc., is dedicated to helping students develop the skills they need to design a better, more sustainable world. Partnering with educators worldwide, we support the educational integration of design thinking to build critical 21st-century skills such as innovation, collaboration, ideation, and iteration—preparing students for their future careers. In this keynote session, you will hear from Dr. Randy Swearer, vice president of education at Autodesk, and discover his vision for future designers. Understand how Autodesk is inspiring creativity and innovation in the next generation, preparing them to design and build a better world. Get inspired, and bring this creative movement back to your academic courses, or as a mentor to students in your area.