This roundtable discussion is designed to bring to the table those like-minded individuals who have the following in common: A desire to share their experiences based on a successful deployment of Building Design Suite workflows that take full advantage of the range of product solutions available in the suite. The roundtable explores past and existing project-based solutions and best practices while looking to use the range of products in Building Design Suite in a successful project workflow. The discussion also looks at technical problems that were encountered during this process and explores suggestions on how to resolve them. The concluding part of this roundtable addresses the lessons learned and looks to exchange a set of practical hints and tips that can assists the group in achieving a highly productive workflow.

How does the cloud help your firm grow and reach global scale securely? In this session, we will share the various ways in which building design and construction professionals can use Revit on Amazon Web Services through Project Skyscraper, Hosted Trials, and Virtualized Deployments. We will also give you a sneak peek at the new Revit LT Software as a Service Beta.

In a fast-paced design-build environment, the ability to streamline and accelerate processes necessary for optimized project delivery is directly proportional to the ability to minimize information loss. Using real-life examples, we will demonstrate how complex projects and their demanding schedules be improved from the use of Autodesk Building Design Suite. The class will cover a Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow from the very beginning of the design and construction process. We will discuss how early decisions have a lasting impact on the building’s performance and lifecycle cost, explore the process of program development and client engagement using advanced visualization techniques, and finally, delve into the process of document production and coordination. This BIM-enabled workflow determines a team’s ability to collaborate and deliver a product that will exceed the client’s expectations.

In this class, students will learn the basics of machine learning and how they can apply it to building design and construction. First, we'll talk about the history of machine learning and how it has been used in literature and the building industry. Then, we'll talk about some easy-to-use machine learning algorithms and try to implement them in Dynamo Studio software. This class does not require any prerequisite knowledge or skills.

The roundtable discussion is designed to bring to the table like-minded individuals who have a desire to share their experiences toward achieving a fully collaborative Building Information Modeling (BIM) to facilities management (FM) workflow using Building Design Suite software and BIM 360 Cloud software Solutions. The primary intent is to explore well-documented, coordinated, and collaborative workflows using Revit software and Navisworks software with BIM 360 Field software, BIM 360 Glue software, and BIM 360 Plan software. The roundtable is set to review present and future project-based solutions and BIM workflows toward a highly efficient project delivery. We will address the key benefits of collaborative BIM and look to exchange a set of practical hints and tips to assist the roundtable group in gaining crucial insight into the BIM process using Autodesk, Inc., cloud technology. The concluding part of this roundtable will cover potential hurdles encountered in the process and possible solutions that will contribute toward delivering a successful project.

Autodesk, Inc.’s, Project Scorch enables fire and smoke Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation within your buildings’ designs. In this class we’ll cover the full process, including importing your designs, creating burners and sprinklers, working with materials, and interpreting local and cloud-based analysis results—all to enable you to utilize the power of simulation within your design process. We will cover how understanding heat, smoke, and particle movement can help you in the design process, and how you can integrate simulation into the process. We will also cover some best practices and helpful tips to help you get the most out of Project Scorch, as well as demonstrate several examples to help understand key concepts.

This class is designed for CAD managers, structural engineers, and designers who struggle with finding out the best workflow in their company for designing building structures from preliminary phase to fabrication. Find out how the leading products in the Autodesk Building Design Suite fit into your current company workflow and design process. Learn how to use Autodesk® Revit® software as your main CAD platform and how to integrate and simulate your model with Autodesk® Robot® Structural Analysis software, using advanced techniques for analytical models. See how Revit can add more value in making fabrication drawings. This class will also emphasize the importance of Autodesk 360 applications and services in your design process: save time with preliminary analysis of your model and visualize and share your intelligent models using the cloud. We will wrap up by presenting i-Theses® applications: extensions for Revit and integration of an intelligent model into i-Theses® FloorOffice to make fabrication drawings of precast floors.

You know how to render, but sometimes you don’t get the results you want. Are you missing that final touch? How helpful would it be if you could change materials and lighting of your rendering without rendering it again? This class will walk you through the process of visualizing architecture inside Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013—a process that includes linking and opening Autodesk® Revit® and AutoCAD® software models into Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software, generating renderings and render elements inside 3ds Max Design and combining these render elements into 3ds Max Composite 2013 software so you can have full control of your rendering post-production phase. Learn tips and tricks to reduce the rendering time and get the best results.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are bringing disruption across industries, changing the way we create images, text, and code. Within architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), these tools will transform the design and construction process. Professionals in AEC must stay informed of this fast-moving technology to remain competitive and aware of the innovative design-and-make software. TileGPT is an LLM-powered prototype developed within Autodesk Research to generate optimized designs using intuitive and flexible text-based input. This session will cover the technical capabilities of this generative AI system, which uses optimization to enable rapid design exploration. It presents example use cases within AEC design, including performance-driven generation of building massing, site design, facade layouts, and more. With generative AI, Autodesk Research is expanding what's possible within design tools, and showcasing new design experiences that are fast, intuitive, and accessible.

3ds Max Design rendering and animation software is extremely powerful. It can also be intimidating and overwhelming for the novice or casual user. This class will show you the specific workflows and tools you need to quickly and effectively create still images and animated sequences for visualizing building projects. We will cover specific settings to control both interior and exterior lighting (including night scenes), and easy yet effective methods to create animated walk-through sequences of a building. Stop getting lost in the miasma of tools that are unnecessary for building animation, and stop going down blind alleys. This class will focus strictly on the tools that you need to do your job.

Technology innovation has continually disrupted the way buildings are designed and constructed. This presentation will introduce you to the next era of technological disruption where physical things are now deeply connected by bringing cloud, social and mobile technology to bear. Autodesk is the only solutions provider in the AEC Industry that offers a truly connected model based workflow so that our customers can imagine, design and create a better world

Every project carries both a financial cost and carbon footprint. The decisions made during the initial phases of a project hold the most-significant influence on these factors. New trends and compliance and legal requirements also make it necessary to assess climate impact at an early phase of a project. The traditional way of counting everything together at the end of the project is no longer enough. So how can you make good decisions before you have the full picture? How can you weigh the impact of different options before all the design work is complete? This is best done by thinking in a new way about sustainability, data, and how to engage the customer. Sweco's new tool—Carbon Cost Compass (C3)—helps projects to clarify these issues and provide a sound basis for the client to achieve a good result.

Recent news of artificial intelligence (AI) advances have us all wondering how our professions will change. Committed to driving future-ready innovation, WSP Digital Solutions engaged with Autodesk Research to explore the potential of AI-assisted automated structural design after seeing a prototype at Autodesk University 2019. In this class, you'll see how we worked together to understand the technology's promise and how to use it effectively. We'll describe the possible benefits we identified, from more-meaningful, agile engagements with architects in early design phases through assistive technology that automates away tedious tasks and helps explore more options ("rapid optioneering"), to surfacing sustainability trade-offs when most impactful decisions can be made. We'll also address the fears around this digital transformation. Finally, we will share how our unique collaboration came to be, and how you too can engage with Autodesk to prepare for and shape the future of work and the world of tomorrow.

This session begins with participants embarking on a concise yet enlightening journey through the evolution of CAD, culminating in the present day. The discussion will cover the advantages and challenges faced by today's designers and engineers before exploring Autodesks' end-to-end solutions which have been developed to help balance time and resources, and mitigate the chaos, by providing a logical and structured approach to specific design and engineering workflows such as Renovation & Adaptive Reuse, Embodied & Operational Carbon Management, and Site Feasibility Studies etc.

In this class, we will dive into the concepts and practices we used to bring the most to the deliverable for the owner through use of Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage, Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, AutoCAD® MEP, AutoCAD®, and Autodesk® Inventor® software. We will show you how to work towards bringing only value-added work to a project by eliminating non-value-adding steps while also working towards better quality assurance and quality control by modularizing the construction process where it has proven possible through studies using the design suite.

Discover decarbonization design strategies for building design, as well as a data-informed workflow for implementing these strategies to decarbonize the training Revit House. We’ll use Revit software, the Revit One Click plug-in, and One Click LCA to show you how to extract and manage quantitative and material data to measure the embodied carbon emissions associated with the design of the Revit House. After examining the results, and discovering the carbon hotspots, we’ll decide on appropriate decarbonization strategies, aiming for a 40% reduction in line with the World Green Building Council goal. We’ll then apply those strategies to the Revit House. Integration between Revit and One Click LCA has streamlined the data-informed workflow and provides carbon data when the designer needs it. The designer can use this data to make design decisions and subsequently deliver measurably lower carbon buildings.

As demand for high performance buildings increases, more sophisticated techniques are needed to ensure a balance between energy efficiency and occupant comfort. Innovative ventilation and energy management approaches require an understanding of airflow patterns and the influence of heat gains or losses. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) enables detailed modeling of these physics yet has historically been too difficult to use early in a project cycle during conceptual design and design development. Over the past 10 years simulation technologies have evolved to become faster, more user-friendly, and more accurate. Autodesk® Simulation CFD 360 is a proven cloud-based tool for examining how air is delivered to and exhausted from a space and the impact of thermal loads. This class will introduce you to CFD workflows and show you how to take full advantage of Simulation CFD 360 for rapid ventilation analysis.

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.

Join us for an exploration and discussion of how to use the FormIt mobile app to help capture building design concepts digitally—anytime and any place. In this session you can speak to FormIt app experts while learning about the latest features and functionality.