The United Kingdom (UK) is experiencing an exponential demand for rail travel, combined with demands from passengers for safer, faster, more reliable trains. The only way to meet this demand today, and for future generations, is to invest heavily in the UK's rail infrastructure. However, in today’s economic climate, rail infrastructure owners have to spend available capital wisely and ensure better outcomes, based on quality design and construction. This class looks at how UK rail infrastructure owners are adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a key enabler to making informed business decisions throughout the life of the asset, based on accurate, complete, and unambiguous information. To achieve this, they are developing standardized processes and providing client leadership for their supply chain to build integrated teams with the capability and capacity to deliver their requirements.

Globally, Architecture, Engineering and Consulting (AEC) firms are being asked to conform to mandates for the use of risk-based triple bottom line (TBL) analysis into design decisions starting in the conceptual planning stage. There is an awareness that infrastructure serves the public good and that lowest cost solutions are not sustainable, resilient, or adding to the quality of life of our society. The objective of infrastructure proponents in imposing TBL mandates is to shift from the lowest cost approach to a highest sustainable return on investment approach. The ability to monetize the public benefits of infrastructure via a triple bottom line economic assessment means that designs can be vetted more quickly, stakeholder push-back is reduced, and there is faster approval for the building of more sustainable and resilient infrastructure. This session will show how an AEC firm is helping a public agency use TBL assessment to calculate public value. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

This session will provide an overview of 2 new Stormwater Modeling Solutions—Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) and AutoCASE software—that will help civil engineers and landscape architects design for the future. For decades cities drained stormwater with sewers, but these systems are fraught with pollution and flooding issues. In response cities have embraced a new “green infrastructure” approach to managing stormwater—partnering with developers to install absorptive rain gardens and green roofs to harvest water, filter pollutants, and provide a host of other social and environmental benefits. Autodesk, Inc., and its partner Impact Infrastructure have introduced these solutions to support this revolution. As green infrastructure is still a relatively new concept, GSI and AutoCASE software eliminate the learning curve by providing an easy way to design these techniques and analyze their benefits. This session features a case study on using GSI and AutoCASE software for the San Francisco Civic Center Historic District.

Construction Cloud is today being used across a large range of projects globally. This session will demonstrate a number of use cases, including how PlanGrid is helping build and maintain railways, Assemble is being used to quantify materials in dams, BuildingConnected is being used to source subcontractors for road projects, and BIM 360 software is being used to manage complex infrastructure projects. We will also show how Autodesk partners are being used in conjunction with Construction Cloud products to help infrastructure asset owners better use the data collected on a project.

Join us for an immersive experience of infrastructure. Better understand the value of 3D modeling and think of new ways you can add value to your business by engaging your senses and experiencing the infrastructure around you. This is a hands-on, mind-engaged activity—from the office to the field, to peer discussions of projects, to model building, to data capturing, to infrastructure experiencing through third-party tools.

This class is all about combining the traditional software tools like AutoCAD Map 3D software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Revit software, Vehicle Tracking software, and Navisworks software with more recent technology like InfraWorks 360 software and ReCap 360 software in order to support the infrastructure construction process. The focus will be mainly on preliminary construction planning and visualization. We will also look at the capabilities of communicating information to the different stakeholders in the project. This session features InfraWorks 360 and AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Information is the most important part of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Come and learn how to add user-defined information to a 3D model, and how to use and manage that information downstream in the processes. We will show how you can add project-specific information to your infrastructure model and how other project stakeholders can use it. You can also share this information with different geographic information system (GIS) systems. Workflow will include AutoCAD Civil 3D software, Navisworks software, and A360 cloud-based collaboration service This session features AutoCAD Civil 3D, A360, and Navisworks Simulate. AIA Approved

Learn how Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler (AIM) software can enhance your transportation workflows during the design execution phase. In Part 1 of this series, we focused on the classic ability of Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler in the conceptual design space, but what about later in the design? This class will show how a well-established AutoCAD® Civil 3D software model can be fed into Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler to communicate the design visually. In addition, we will discuss interoperability options between Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler and other products within Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite, such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. This class will benefit Infrastructure Design Suite users who are interested in getting the most from their suite investment as well as standalone Civil 3D and Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler users who want to know more about how these products can interact.

This class will explain how users in the construction area can capitalize on AutoCAD Civil 3D software to accomplish tasks in order to be compliant with Building Information Modeling (BIM) for infrastructure requirements. We will show how to build and roll out an adoption plan for implementing new tools, processes, and workflow working with Autodesk Enterprise Priority Support.

Learn how Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler (AIM) software can enhance your transportation workflows during the conceptual design phase. Not only can you use Autodesk® Infrastructure Modeler to provide eye-catching conceptual visuals in record time, but also you can feed this conceptual model into AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software to proceed with your design. This class focuses on employing Autodesk at the beginning of a transportation project and the interoperability between Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler and Civil 3D. In addition, interoperability options between Autodesk infrastructure Modeler and other products in Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Ultimate, such as Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software, will be discussed. This class will benefit Infrastructure Design Suite users who are interested in getting the most from their suite investment as well as standalone Civil 3D and Autodesk infrastructure Modeler users who want to know more about how these products can interact.

The Infrastructure Symposium general session includes the welcome address, the highlights on a few key projects, the presentation of the 2014 Excellence in Infrastructure winners, and an overview of the symposium sessions to follow. The symposium provides peer-networking opportunities across owner/operators and the network of engineering, design, and construction firms focused on supporting infrastructure projects and managing asset lifecycles. The Infrastructure Symposium is on Monday.

This lecture will cover the process of creating striking videos designed to communicate complex infrastructure projects within a Building Information Modeling (BIM) pipeline. You will discover how products from Autodesk, Inc., can enable you to deliver detailed technical information to both engineers and non-technical audiences involved in a project. Helicopter video shooting, tracking, and 3D replacement have become essential exercises for achieving this purpose in transportation infrastructure projects such as airports, freeways, and elevated-train systems. We will follow some of these videos from beginning to end, covering topics that include: preproduction tips for shooting video from a helicopter and tracking with the MatchMover application; integration of tracking points and camera in a 3ds Max software environment; BIM pipeline integration with 3ds Max software and Revit software; rigging and animating transport in 3ds Max software; rendering management in the Backburner application; and optimized compositing. Download videos at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/thq3yvdw3119aho/AABlyqsDi9Wz57tZVBIImfnSa

Has your organization fully embraced the BIM revolution and are you realizing the benefits and overcoming the challenges involving BIM for Civil Infrastructure/AEC from planning to design to construction to life-cycle O&M? This roundtable focuses on lessons learned, best practices, and costs-benefits for BIM deployments in Wisconsin for comparative civil infrastructure highway and site civil design and construction projects. Attend this roundtable to interactively discuss and demo the benefits and challenges to get the most out of BIM.

Since 2015 we have been developing our capabilities to use Autodesk technologies to automate the modelling of linear civil infrastructures such as Bridges and Tunnels. These capabilities are now well implemented by most of engineering companies. But what about all the other railway linear infrastructures disciplines such as fencing, hydraulic structures, track, catenary, tunnel MEP elements that requires to be fully integrated in the design… In this class, we will review how we can enhance BIM modeling automation workflows on Revit and Civil 3D for these disciplines. For that we will take the example of Etihad Rail project where SYSTRA has developed a large-scale automation strategy using the in-house solution BIMinOneClick This class is subject to our customer agreement, “Etihad Rail”

The Infrastructure and Projects Authority estimates the next decade will see around ﾣ600 billion of public and private investment in infrastructure, but that it can only be achieved if we significantly change the way we plan, procure and deliver infrastructure. This lunch and learn session will illustrate how Autodesk customers are leveraging leading edge technologies and processes to meet such challenges providing innovative solutions across the project lifecycle.

This class will explain a subset of capabilities that Autodesk cloud services offer to enable collaboration in civil infrastructure projects. Topics that we'll discuss include the presence of mobile devices in our daily lives, and the ways that we can use them in professional environments. Also, we'll explore the available technologies that will let multiple teams work together.

The rail infrastructure industry has large scale challenges: design-integration of many diverse engineering disciplines, asset combinations that bring together the entire BIM lifecycle and projects that have operations running over decades rather than a couple of years. These challenges need more than just one product, they require a platform solution that can grow and evolve over time. In the last decade Autodesk has been investing heavily in improving specific railway infrastructure solutions in combination with a strong platform foundation. This class gives an overview of the entire rail lifecycle and how Autodesk supports its defining processes: measuring and modeling existing situations, feasibility studies, multidisciplinary/integrated design, site execution, project collaboration and hand-over. The class content is based on Autodesk consultancy and product teams rail infrastructure background and partnerships with industry leaders, resulting in a comprehensive rail overview.

In Chicago, infrastructure planning is changing rapidly. In response, WSP USA has developed a 400-square-mile InfraWorks model of Chicago. A powerful and collaborative tool is key to the planning and design of WSP projects. This panel will cover the use of InfraWorks software for projects that include O'Hare International Airport Express Rail Project, Interstate 290 Expressway, Urban River Edge Ideas Lab, and a large land development parcel. We'll examine the assets used in the Chicago model, including highways, roadways, bridges, utilities, airports, transit, and the Chicago River. We'll discuss workflows for civil infrastructure, as well as reality capture versus visualization. Panel presenters will show several examples that touch on some of the best practices, work-arounds, shortcuts, limitations, and advantages of the Chicago Model.

Coordinators of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and CAD from COWI A/S will show how the company has been using InfraWorks 360 software and the cloud to collaborate, and they will show the company's model of the new E16, the single biggest contract for a road project that The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has ever announced. The Infrateam at COWI took a new approach by using InfraWorks 360 software for the main visual model in an infrastructure project. This experience has given the team many valuable benefits, which contributed to optimizing the design. This class's main goal is to share some of the methods that the COWI Teams used. The teams used InfraWorks 360 software in the initial phase of the project and the teams then decided to use the power of the software and the cloud to perfect and convey the design as the project moved on. The process started with importing data in different formats into the model, sketching the road in InfraWorks 360 software to end up with a precise infrastructure design, producing in external software, and then importing into InfraWorks 360 software. This is an infrastructure project in InfraWorks 360 software and the cloud, from start to end—the COWI way.