DLR Group anticipates that more than 80% of its workforce will need upskilling in the next two years. Sound familiar? During this session, DLR Group will present its approach to learning and development, featuring a comprehensive skills matrix that aligns skill levels—both technical and other critical ones—with specific tasks and functions performed. DLR Group will illustrate its journey that began four years ago with new-hire skill assessments and evolved into a program that ensures all employees, regardless of their roles or departments, possess essential skills and customized career paths. Learn how DLR Group used Power BI, along with learning management tools such as Pinnacle Series and KnowledgeSmart by Eagle Point Software, to build a program that supports its key focus areas and future business needs. Leave with ways you can help your firm facilitate mentorship opportunities, identify potential software cost savings, improve talent recruitment, and impact overall employee satisfaction.

Discover the essentials of design visualization in our AU class. Learn how to effectively use 3ds Max software for modeling, Arnold for rendering, and Moxion for collaborative workflows. Gain practical skills to create visually striking designs efficiently and accurately.

Storytelling has been present within architecture as long as the domain itself has existed. Initially, it was done with hand representations of volumes and narratives told over the sheets of paper. As the technology progresses, new ways of telling stories emerge: Renderings became easier and cheaper, causing their function to evolve. Industry saw a shift from only using them for end results (artifacts) to real-time renderings focused on driving communication and decision making. Now, with the democratization of AI, we are facing new possibilities: Visualization for ideation, but also for even faster creation of realistic outputs. This opens the doors for more-effective, data-driven storytelling throughout the design stages. In this live demonstration of the Veras extension within Autodesk Forma and Revit software, we'll show you how to easily create stunning visualizations and convert them to create compelling, data-driven storyboards throughout design stages using Autodesk Forma.

Informed Design for Revit software is a powerful tool that empowers designers to create high-quality, manufacturable designs with increased efficiency and accuracy. By using customizable building product templates, designers can seamlessly incorporate manufacturing-level detail into their Revit design files. The ability to tailor these templates to align with specific building requirements ensures compliance with manufacturers' specifications, reducing project risk and preventing errors. This class will provide an in-depth exploration of how to use Informed Design for Revit to maximize design certainty, minimize rework, and streamline project execution. By using Informed Design for Inventor software, building product manufacturers create and share customizable reusable products with constraints. Participants will learn how to explore, customize, and incorporate these manufacturable building product templates into their designs within Revit for enhanced accuracy.

In this class, a panel of Autodesk experts will share productivity tips and tricks, and answer audience questions about real-time challenges. Attend this class for expert AutoCAD advice. The class will start with a brief presentation to introduce the support organization, the speakers, and the current customer support options. This is a real-time question-and-answer session, so please come prepared with questions about AutoCAD software. A computer will be in the class running AutoCAD 2025 software for attendees who need to demonstrate their issues. Panel experts will include members of the Technical Support, Quality Assurance, and Licensing teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative design (GD) are transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction industry toward a more efficient design process. But is the built environment in danger of losing social and equity values as a result? The powerful combination of GD and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has the potential to assist architects in improving building functionality and sustainability, enhancing value for architects, developers, and residents. However, ethical and social sustainability values may be overlooked if the metrics of the GD and GAI are not instructed to identify and prioritize them. This class will combine findings from a multidisciplinary research project from Carnegie Mellon University, and real-life architectural projects by HED. Learn how to prioritize important equity and social sustainability values in human-in-the-loop AI powered design frameworks, making ethical and socio-sustainable design decisions measurable and transparent to all stakeholders, for a more equitable and resilient built environment.

This case study explores how digital transformation happens, starting from the traditional design process and moving to Autodesk Construction Cloud using building information modeling (BIM) tools. It also identifies challenges, the importance of education and training, and the short-term and long-term benefits. The major challenge is the lack of capacity and capability, lack of a common platform, absence of standardization, inconsistencies in workflow and processes, and loss of information. We initiated the transformation by redefining the workflow processes, bringing Autodesk Construction Cloud, standardizing design language and deliverables, creating libraries, and training. This increased adaptation, leading to an increase in efficiency of model development, peer review, design collaboration, design management, and approval by all stakeholders. We were also able to define roles and responsibilities, ensure version control across all stakeholders, and review clash detection, thus improving on-time efficiency, accuracy, and quality of the deliverables by sharing information and collaborating.

This case study shows how effectively Autodesk Forma software was integrated into the design process of NOVA PROJEKT Architekci sp. z o.o. This integration was intended to make it faster and easier to prepare precise urban analyses in the preliminary phase of architectural projects. This allowed for the analysis of multiple options, which is critical for construction projects subject to local and national laws and located on brownfield sites. The initial presentation will set expectations for Autodesk Forma. A test project revealed obstacles in the form of lack of support for some coordinate systems and DXF™ files. A diagnosis based on experience demonstrated that the analysis results would be only approximate. Autodesk support helped create a data-preparation process using AutoCAD Map 3D software, analysis in Autodesk Forma, and in Revit software. The initial design process has been shortened tenfold, and the results made a convincing case for those deciding whether to launch and approve the project.

In this session, we'll explore creating a custom lifecycle assessment (LCA) pipeline for our international practice's complex needs. We'll tackle the challenges of traditional tools, which often falter in integrating with various project-specific building information modeling (BIM) standards and local requirements, and generally relegate LCA to a terminal project phase rather than using it in the design process. Our motivation to develop our own workflow arose from existing solutions being "black boxes" that fail to accommodate different levels of detail needed for design stages. Our pipeline not only offers flexible calculations, but it also aids in documenting and benchmarking construction systems. This development was achieved through collaboration within our design technologies team and extensive interactions with industry peers, resulting in a scalable, effective tool. Attendees will gain insights from our case studies and learn about our process, which improves efficiency and transparency in environmental assessments.

Architects today are facing mounting pressure to meet sustainability targets from the onset of a project. The increasing recognition of our shared responsibility to the environment and its wellbeing is driving this shift. Unlocking collaboration among project stakeholders is critical in identifying decarbonization strategies, using Insight for Revit software as a cloud-based platform. This hands-on lab session will explore through real case studies how Insight for Revit facilitates the identification of decarbonization pathways and offers a solution that can help decrease total carbon emissions. In this hands-on lab, you'll experience the integration of carbon analysis into the design process, making sustainability a core consideration across all the design stages. By equipping the next generation of architects with invaluable and indispensable skills, you'll use emerging technologies for designing low-carbon buildings, while closing the communication gap with sustainability specialists.

The next generation of Autodesk Insight software provides a simple collaborative workspace for project teams to target, trade off, and track total carbon throughout the design process and building lifecycle using open and extensible data and analysis. In this session, you'll join leaders from Autodesk Product Development and Impact (Sustainability) teams, as well as customers and partners, to learn about new capabilities available today in next-generation Autodesk Insight——and where it's going in the future. This will build upon the product vision and strategy shared in previous AU classes of the same title, and now we'll provide real-world examples to learn from, reuse, and adapt to meet your needs.

Daiwa House has been striving to achieve building information modeling (BIM) mandate in-house since 2017, and it has achieved many results, but not enough to maximize value. In order to create further business value and establish a solid foundation where the company can benefit from future technology innovations, we're evolving our data strategy and working with Autodesk Consulting on the Digital Daiwa House project. To achieve the goal, we're working on implementing a higher level of BIM maturity while increasing the maturity of the data required for construction projects. We're also working on the configurator as a mechanism to convert structured/standardized data into business value. The configurator links data throughout the project lifecycle and enhances the coordination of each stakeholder. In proportion to the maturity of BIM and data, capabilities in the configurator improve. We are aiming to achieve such an evolving configurator.

Looking to implement carbon analysis on your project but not sure how and when to use each product? There's no single tool to solve this problem, but many are working to streamline this process. Learn from global architecture, engineering, and construction firm Arcadis about how to upskill your own company on sustainable design workflows at a firm-wide level, despite real-world constraints such as project budgets and resourcing. We'll help you understand the difference between solutions such as Autodesk Forma software's embodied carbon analysis, Insight software, and One Click LCA so you can walk away with a framework for your own team to apply.

Let's face it, emissions from the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry are too high and one of the key issues is there are no agreed-upon processes for measuring embodied carbon. Join this panel discussion to hear a deep dive into how a group of companies conducted a proof of concept (POC) to address this complexity. Under the auspices of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Autodesk and six AEC leading companies—AECOM, Arcadis, Arup, Foster + Partners, Ramboll, and SOM—spent more than six months on this POC. The cohort of building information modeling (BIM) and sustainability experts from the various firms investigated the processes behind translating BIM data into material quantities to measure embodied carbon (EC). The goal: Identify best practices toward establishing industry-wide guidelines for EC analysis to create actionable benchmarks. Join this fascinating technical discussion into how we aligned, agreed on assumptions, and drew conclusions. Hear how these POC insights might help decarbonize the industry from our contributors: Paul Astle (Ramboll), Javier Sanchez Hernandez (AECOM), Laura Gomez Hernandez (AECOM), Caoimhe Loftus (Arcadis), Ian Lumsden (Arup), Blerina Celniku (Foster and Partners), Monica Lucas (Ramboll), Eric Stimmel (SOM), and Mirko Farnetani (SOM).

Are you interested in using building information modeling (BIM) data through dashboards to drive projects forward? In this session, product managers from Data Exchange and Revit software will share how you can unleash your AEC data and connect to Power BI without the use of plug-ins or the need to export data from Revit and other tools. Learn to set up powerful dashboards enabling you to connect data from various models or projects so you can make data-driven decisions for your project and your business. We will invite a customer to share a success story using Power BI, so you have real-world examples of how BIM and dashboards can play together nicely. You'll also learn about the road maps and product strategies for both Data Exchange and Revit when it comes to granular data capabilities.

Architects today face a complex challenge: accurately estimating carbon footprints while exploring a wider and wider variety of forms. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to effectively integrate Autodesk Forma software's carbon analysis tools with Rhino software's modeling capabilities, presenting a novel workflow that allows the evaluation of multiple designs simultaneously. Understand best practices for organizing data in Rhino. Learn methods to quickly incorporate insights from Autodesk Forma back into Rhino for ongoing design iteration. Discover strategies you can use to dramatically reduce the time spent on evaluating carbon impacts, achieving vast efficiency improvements, while maximizing design quality and minimizing environmental impact.

Join us to learn about AutoCAD software's AI features that make your drafting more efficient than ever: Smart Blocks, Markup Import, and Markup Assist. We'll start by covering Markup Import and Markup Assist, the workflow that uses AI to interpret and apply feedback from marked-up PDFs directly into your AutoCAD drawings. You'll learn how Markup Import and Markup Assist can enhance collaboration, drastically reduce the time it takes to incorporate feedback, and reduce errors in your design workflow. Then we'll review Smart Blocks, a suite of AI tools designed to streamline your drafting and drawing cleanup processes. We'll cover Block Placement, Block Replacement, Block Search and Convert, and Object Detection—all of which use AI to help you find, create, and use your blocks. We'll end the session with an opportunity to share ideas on how else AutoCAD might use AI to increase productivity, enhance collaboration, and improve your drafting and documentation workflows.

Data-driven design in architecture has the potential to drastically enhance the quality of projects. It's not solely focused on enhancing the end result; data-driven design also streamlines the architectural process itself. It goes further than just streamlining tasks; it's about improving the quality of living environments and assuring sustainability. In this session, we'll tell the story of the journey involved in designing a residential building. By combining data from various sources, we looked at the most-optimal options for a case we studied in Warsaw, Poland. Among these sources are passive solar design, green roofs, wind analysis, building materials assessment, energy use efficiency, resource conservation, and waste reduction—reducing carbon footprint. Additionally, we incorporated some urban-scale geographic information system (GIS) data. All of that would not be possible without Autodesk Forma software, which played the critical role. For us, the role of an architect will never be the same after this journey.

AutoCAD software unlocks intelligent and connected design collaboration across people, devices, and platforms that will improve design efficiency and ease management of design projects. Learn how you can unlock this experience for you and your team by connecting the best of Autodesk Docs—the cloud-based document management and common data environment—with AutoCAD.

luis vidal + architects is an international studio well-known for leading architectural and environmental innovation, high-quality projects, and excellent user experience. Since 2012, it has transformed its DNA and worldwide offices looking for a cultural and technological accomplishment using building information modeling (BIM) methodology. The main goals have been to eliminate geographical barriers, find a unique method of communication, and share the studio's pioneer ideas about design, multidisciplinary coordination, and sustainability. In this case, study we'll cover how the adoption of BIM 360 Team launched the beginning of a continuous improvement of workflows, until the arrival of a new era of social changes with the launching of Autodesk Construction Cloud with Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro software. We'll highlight the relationship, progress, decisions, health models, revisions, results, and problems found in this virtual environment, where the ethical principles are the same for 500 square meters and 1,200 participants.