The engineer's model in Autodesk Revit Structure software is quite valuable when used in construction. This class explores the avenues for using Revit Structure—from traditional architecture and engineering projects to process plant application. We will provide tips and tricks for working with Revit tools that enable construction, including parts, assemblies, rebar, tilt-up, embeds, structural supports, beam pockets, lift drawings, location, cast-in-place, logistics, bracing, and component connections. We will discuss the value of the engineering model and the potential for contractors to use it in planning, sequencing, animation, location, detailed shop drawings, fabrication, and estimation. Discover how construction engineers can take full advantage of the analysis data to assist in temporary load calculations and how engineering and construction firms can partner with each other for mutual benefit.

It seems like architects jumped on board with Revit®-based software from the beginning because it helps them produce more detailed designs and really doesn't add a lot of additional work. However, engineers have traditionally avoided the switch from AutoCAD® to Revit. In this roundtable, we will discuss the benefits of using Revit from both the architectural and engineering point of view. Architects can explain why engineers need to use Revit and engineers can defend sticking with AutoCAD. Construction managers can also weigh in on why it helps when the engineer produces a 3D model.

With Revit software and Advance Steel software, structural engineers have tools available to enable them to take their designs past construction documents and into fabrication and construction. Construction schedules are faster, integrated project delivery is more common, and the Who, How, and When of structural shops drawings and fabrication models are changing. This presentation will show how US-based structural engineers who already create their design models and drawings with Revit software can use this same software to create shops drawings from their fabrication models for rebar, precast, and structural steel, and also create concrete lift drawings. Attendees will learn why these services are offered, how engineers can offer them, and best practices to follow to offer Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based structural shop drawings. This session features Revit Structure and Advance Steel. AIA Approved

In this session, we’ll look at ideal workflows for using Revit software, and how to avoid key time-wasting traps, as discovered the hard way by an experienced Revit software-using mechanical engineer. We’ll examine opportunities for fundamental changes to overall workflow, as well as how to improve current methods. Emerging features such as Insight 360 software are shown as a great opportunity for engineers and architects to collaborate during initial design stages and to calculate heating and cooling loads. You’ll receive advice about how to control level of detail and coordination, particularly at early design stages. We’ll also give some specific technical tips and tricks to help engineers get the most out of their Revit software systems and spaces. This is a follow-up to the 2013 class on improving efficiency by using Revit MEP software for mechanical calculations. This session features Revit MEP. AIA Approved

Sundt Construction faced a difficult site work package that included landfill remediation. During the project pursuit, Sundt defined a new process to generate volumetric comparisons from UAS-captured data; align with the project coordinate system; and produce an engineered report. This reduced the risk of over excavation, enabled everyone on the team to see how earthwork progressed, and captured construction progress in a meaningful way. Calculating quantities in Civil 3D software produced accurate quantities and an intuitive visual, and enabled the flexibility required to track 6 different quantity types. This class will discuss the process used to bring new value through these construction technologies and demonstrate the process of generating the data.

As technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives, it is increasingly necessary that architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals develop industry-specific innovations to improve the workflow that delivers the built environment. Altering your team’s composition will advance the level of technological integration into your practice for decades to come. Adding in-house software engineers and programmers to your team can facilitate a higher level of ideation, innovation, and computational design that transforms the uses of Revit as a software into an enhanced industry platform. This integration comes with hurdles that can be overcome through leadership, energy, and team-wide engagement. This lecture will explore how to solve challenges in the AEC industry by integrating software engineers into your firm’s culture and pushing the way Revit was designed to serve the industry.

Construction and engineering professionals get hands-on training on how to transition from a LOD 300 to LOD 350 model for enhanced construction utilization. This lab and panel discussion demonstrates how to take full advantage of Revit Structure software models using parts and assembly tools, rebar, parameter strategies, and advanced families to extend BIM into construction using Navisworks® Manage software to schedule, estimate, and use the Revit Structure model for shop drawings. We discuss the value of the engineering model and potential for contractors to use it in planning, sequencing, animation, location, detailed shop drawings, fabrication, and estimation. This lab features a Tilt-Up construction project example.

This class will discuss how reality capture BIM (Building Information Modeling) was utilized at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) by multiple architects, engineers, construction managers, construction engineers, and building owners. The class will discuss how the owners and AEC teams worked together to effectively utilize BIM and reality capture data. We’ll explore what various workflows yielded the most success within Revit software, Civil 3D software, ReCap software, and BIM 360 software.

In this class, we will cover how KBR used BIM 360 software, Navisworks software, and iConstruct to facilitate their Advanced Work Packaging process and increased project visibility, construction productivity, quality, and safety on a $500 million industrial construction project on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The Transportation Summit is a gathering of leading industry professionals in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations focused on best practices and technologies. This year’s Transportation Summit will feature AU Speakers and three consecutive Knowledge Sessions where attendees will hear from industry thought leaders and learn about technologies and best practices. Space is limited. Keynote: Ismaeel Barbur, Virgin Hyperloop One Design Automation: Knowledge Session 1: Wouter Bulens, BIM Manager, TUC Rail Jerome Chamfray, Chief Geo-Digital Engineer, Jacobs Thord Backe, Sr. Director, AEC Generative Design, Autodesk Digitizing Construction: Knowledge Session 2: Jamie Waller, Assistant Director of Construction, Region 3, TNDOT Eric E. Cylwik, Virtual Construction Engineer Senior, Sundt Mohammad Al Ktaishat, Digital Project Delivery lead, AECOM Operations and Maintenance: Knowledge Session 3: Takaya Nagai, Manager, Construction Division, East Japan Railway Company Nigel Stroud, Head of Information Management, Heathrow Airport Liam Gallagher, Director of Information Management, Jacobs

"If you want the same result, do the same thing. If you want something different, do something different." These words from the speaker’s leadership hit home when first heard as a young virtual design and construction (VDC) engineer after grinding through the first coordination project. After hitting road blocks with communicating issues in the coordination process, losing information in too many repositories, wasting time running back and forth to the trailer, and not having the data to learn what to do different, the speaker and team have created smarter workflows and processes to better plan, do, check, and perform their efforts.

This class is a case study on the integration of Revit by a small to mid-sized engineering firm working in building construction. The class will explore the implementation of Revit by delving into a few BIM projects. The study will show that Revit is not restricted to large projects; rather it is well suited to the “everyday” buildings, such as housing, schools, offices, and more. The focus is on experiences the firm had along the way from CAD to BIM such as detailing, coordination, and standardization. Those experiences are lessons that will increase any firm’s proficiency using Revit without sacrificing production. The class will also show the collaboration between architectural and engineering companies on multi-disciplinary Revit projects. In the end, we hope to show architects and engineers of any sized company for any sized project how to integrate Revit into project delivery and how new technologies such as Autodesk A360 will further increase the efficiency of the BIM.

Intelligent models are now tangible to every member of the project team, and this has extensive ramifications. Now that project managers, superintendents, virtual design and construction (VDC) engineers, and forepersons are all operating with a BIM (Building Information Modeling) medium, construction can truly move into the information age. By embracing the principles of the last planner system, utilizing the interfaces of VDC, and employing the power of artificial intelligence, Grit Virtual is re-engineering not only how project teams interact with each other, but also how projects are delivered. Co-founder and CEO Chris Callen will introduce the Grit Virtual methodology, explore learned lessons from pilot projects, and share the Grit team's vision for what comes next.

Project management for construction can be very challenging. It involves intensive coordination among teams and stakeholders throughout all project phases, from design review to project delivery. Efficient management of construction documents, such as drawings, designs, issues, RFIs, change orders, etc., is the key for project success. Research has shown that more than 50% of RFIs have a root cause in design issues and documentation error that could be solved by improving design review. In this session, we look at how a data driven approach can help project teams including VDC managers, project engineers, superintendents and project managers stay on top of critical high risk items and take action. We explore how technologies such as Construction IQ can leverage knowledge and past experience gained through mining tons of data and apply that to prioritize issues and RFIs, and group them into actionable categories for faster and more focused processing, with the ultimate goal of mitigating project risks and bettering project performance. Hear from AECOM and Danis Construction how they are connecting design to construction and their use of Construction IQ, and how it turns plain text into insights about project risk and makes the constructability review process and project management easier.

Structural engineers manage design changes and updates on a daily basis. Coordinating models and drawings while maintaining quality is always a challenge—not to mention working remotely or from home. The DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle is an effective approach to managing change during design and construction processes. Linking Revit models with structural analysis tools is one of the biggest benefits and challenges structural engineering teams still encounter. In this class, we will look at best practices for keeping structural models and workflows DRY, including linking models between Revit, Robot Structural Analysis software, and Advance Steel software; managing, coordinating, and sharing models using BIM 360 software; and reviewing construction and fabrication drawings for quality control with BIM 360. Incorporating some of these approaches into your workflows will help you keep up with the pace of change.

Industrialized construction is becoming a household name within the building industry due to its advantages in improving productivity, quality, accuracy, and efficiency. Applying innovative BIM (Building Information Modeling) workflows and using advanced technologies through all stages from design to production has been one of Nordic Office of Architecture’s most important strategies for success in industrialized construction. In this class, you will gain insight into the Scandinavian way of industrialized construction, and see how a cross-disciplinary collaboration with the software development team of Project Frog has enabled new possibilities to aid in design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) and BIM workflows. We will showcase both a large-scale hospital and a smaller-scale set of high-end prefabricated housing. This collaboration reflects on the challenges that architects and engineers have faced in the presence of repeating information, and provides a step-by-step workflow for similar projects (hotels, schools, office buildings, and so on).

In 2015 near real-time construction validation was possible. The hard facts though, were that the procedure complexity required specialist survey and scanning teams and was only of interest to projects totally committed to the philosophy of Digital Engineering. Tier One General Contractors are leading that digital charge. The desire to build it right direct from the model is driving the construction process on £multi-million projects. In 2018 our customers now have access to a solution for near-real-time construction validation utilising a combination of hardware and software, enabling site engineers and not specialist survey and scanning crews to complete day-to-day validation tasks in a third of the time previously required. Huge time and cost savings result. Costly mistakes and project hold-ups are avoided.

This session will share a recent project that incorporates custom families into an early design project. The families have engineering built into them such that they essentially design themselves once placed in the project. Then, with changes to particular items in the project, the families update their designs in real-time, and the model then updates as well. In addition, the elements are scheduled, with approximated construction cost. This model was created for a client to use as a tool for making design decisions. This client builds a great deal of similar structures and wanted a way to visualize how various design decisions may affect things like ceiling heights, cost, and so on. This session will show how the custom families were created and how the project was modeled.