The United Nation predicts that the world’s population will grow from 7.5 billion today to nearly 10 billion by 2050. To keep up with this population growth, urban areas will need to construct on average more than 13,000 commercial buildings daily. In this context, it is important to consider the impact that buildings will have on climate change, and the depletion of natural resources. It’s been estimated that building construction projects contribute 40% of the waste in landfills, and that buildings produce one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, use 25% of global water, and use 40% of global energy. The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry must fundamentally rethink how it designs, constructs, and operates the built environment for the world to meet its climate change reduction goals. Join us for this lively and inspiring panel discussion with key industry leaders to explore how the structural and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) engineering industries can help address the climate crisis.

GDF SUEZ Energy Romania specializes in providing natural gas to over 1.3 million consumers, all through an immense and intricate pipeline network covering 16,000 kilometers. In 2007, GDF Romania embarked on creating a new and more efficient network for the natural gas pipeline. Initiated from scratch and managed with the company’s internal resources and equipment, the collection of field data related to the pipeline distribution would take two years to complete and would be contained within a single, centralized database. The team made extensive use of AutoCAD Map 3D Enterprise software (formerly Topobase™) in regional offices, created a web platform on Autodesk® Infrastructure Map Server to share the information across the company (more than 600 users), and worked closely with Autodesk Consulting to create the best and safest asset management system possible. This class will help you to better understand the challenges and the key factors of this successful implementation.

Real estate and infrastructure are facing high pressure to reduce CO2 and waste. This class will demonstrate how to digitize existing real estate or infrastructure portfolios with a focus on decarbonization and reuse of material. The class will cover how to find out the CO2 footprint of a current portfolio, how to capture material, and how to use it as a material mine and bring it into a circle, as natural resources like sand and water are limited and shrinking drastically. The class will present a real example involving the Swiss Army based on other examples of relevant real estate owners in Switzerland. Digital twins are crucial in this context to the very precise and reliable capture and analysis of the data, and they help accelerate decisions and implementation, accelerate time to market, and ultimately lead to even more revenue for the owners. Technology showcased will be Revit software, Autodesk Tandem, InfraWorks software, and Autodesk Construction Cloud.

Our planet is facing the biggest challenges seen in humanity’s lifetime: The environment at risk and being destroyed by humans, the acceleration of city growth, and the population acceleration in the megacities of tomorrow. The building industry consumes a large part of our natural resources. There's a big demand for houses and infrastructures to welcome these future populations, and buildings are generating a large portion of the carbon footprint on our planet. How can we overcome all these challenges and make a better world for our children and our children's children? Digital and BIM (Building Information Modeling) is certainly one of the best ways to bring some concrete and very pragmatic answers. In this class, you'll see how Autodesk's BIM and digital software are helping shape the beautiful world of tomorrow. Through very concrete examples and solutions, you'll see that sustainability is not a dream anymore.

Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals need interoperability between their BIM (Building Information Modeling) and geographic information system (GIS) tools to solve, plan, design, construct, and manage projects in a sustainable and resilient manner. They need tools to optimize materials use, energy use, human resources, and the long-term impact on the natural world. Connecting Esri’s GIS solutions with civil and building BIM improves coordination and efficiency. Enabling data to flow between these GIS and BIM solutions enables a more sustainable and resilient world. This session will discuss and demonstrate how location intelligence helps built and natural environments to thrive. Customer examples will be presented with an emphasis on sustainability topics highlighting Civil 3D software, InfraWorks software, and Revit software combined with Esri ArcGIS. The moderator of this session will facilitate a series of five-minute presentations by multiple customers using Autodesk and Esri software to produce work that addresses these topics. This session will include a moderated panel discussion.

In the heart of innovation, nestled within the esteemed halls of the Technical University of Munich, stands TUM Boring—Innovation in Tunneling e.V.—a beacon of progress. Comprising 50 students, this initiative embodies a collective dream of crafting the future. Their ambition? Challenging the conventional paradigms of today's mobility infrastructure through a reduction in tunnelling cost. Embracing this challenge, the student team from Munich built the world's fastest tunnel-boring machine, earning them first place twice in Elon Musk's prestigious Not-a-Boring Competition. Hosted by The Boring Company, this event challenged teams globally to demonstrate their prowess in drilling a tunnel both swiftly and precisely—30 meters in length and 50 centimeters in width. Journey with us as we recount a tale of audacity and resilience—from the project's humble beginnings in July 2020 to winning the competition twice. Uncover how a team of students spent 40 days tirelessly working on their machine on a ranch in Texas, encountering and solving unconventional challenges every day, to prepare for the competition. Within this narrative, uncover the spirit of 50 passionate students who, disobeyed conventions forged ahead, won competitions, and redefined what is possible in the realm of tunnel boring.

As we integrate digital exchanges into our daily workflows and delivery processes, we need to maintain a good handle on the data associated with our digital assets and files. By continuously analyzing our models and data, not only are we able to maintain high levels of efficiency and productivity, but we are also ensuring that our models and data are suitable for downstream uses. Dynamo and scripting within Civil 3D software can play a key role in the creation, management, quality control, and delivery processes throughout the design lifecycle. In this session, we'll explore several ways design teams can extract, analyze, and react to the data being mined from our Civil 3D models, and set us up for future success along the way.

Do you spend days or weeks determining a corridor path for your roads and highways projects? Do you spend hours refining your roadway profiles to minimize costs and satisfy sophisticated constraints? Do you spend tons of money on software to help you design your roadways? No more. This class reveals the easy-to-use and cost-saving Corridor Optimization and Profile Optimization features available with Roadway Design for InfraWorks 360 software. We will present the enhancements included in our latest release and explain how to use them to achieve the most effective results for your roads and highways design projects. We'll also teach you tricks for configuring the services to work for mining, roadways, and railway design projects.

As we work through projects, information is constantly being generated. Unfortunately, we almost never get to see it, much less capture and analyze it, thereby missing many opportunities to inform future projects or help with current ones. Buro Happold is a global engineering firm that's decided to tackle this problem at an enterprise level by finding ways to automatically collect, share and analyze this constant stream of project information. We've taken a multi-faceted approach to mining project data for insights by using a mixture of internally developed tools, Revit, BIM Collaborate Pro, ACC and external tools like Power BI and Kinship. This class will cover the methods and strategies that we are using to mine all the data generated daily by each project. We'll look at how the firm is using internal BIM Radar tool with mixture of external tools. We'll also discuss how to integrate new tools into project teams and how to approach enterprise-level adoption and analysis.

As engineers, we solve problems by evaluating inputs, outputs, and boundary conditions. Engineers have attempted to solve problems surrounding the effects of global poverty since it has existed, but often neglect important historical and political inputs. Neglecting these inputs has resulted in growing global inequalities in terms of wealth, human rights, and livelihood. One factor leading to these disparities is how we go about measuring progress toward a more equitable world. How can engineering help effectively measure global inequalities and give justice to vulnerable people who have been and continue to be excluded and exploited, all while bearing the brunt of the ecological impact of climate change? In this class, we will discuss better ways of measuring inequalities, designing for environmental justice, and bringing the industry’s attention to these systemic and historical realities which are often ignored by practitioners.

Managing bulk materials is one of the most important functions for mining companies. The value of the business is dependent on the quantity of minerals in the stockpile. Yet, it is challenging to know the volume at any specific point in time because material is continually being added or subtracted. Companies currently use aerial surveys to do this work. However, due to its expense, it can only be done about one time per month. Alternatively, the companies can utilize ground survey crews or terrestrial scanning. But, the safety issues and the quality of the data are concerns. In this course, we will demonstrate how to use an unmanned aircraft to conduct accurate surveys that can be conducted daily to give managers near real-time information with which to make decisions. We will discuss critical mission workflows, doing photogrammetric processing with Autodesk ReCap 360 and volume calculations with Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D.

You don’t always have control over the software you use, the hardware you get, the drafting and design standards, or the workflow processes in your company; and reducing labor hours sometimes means reducing profit. Sometimes the workflow process, which you have no control over, is causing the very issue you’re meant to fix or work around. In this course, you’ll learn strategies for automation and how to protect your intellectual property so all the code you write belongs to you. Among those strategies for automation, we’ll go over the implementation and maintenance of CAD standards in a nonabrasive manner that your team will easily embrace. We’ll go over how to turn your ideas for improvements into a KPI (key performance indicator)-driven plan for increasing quality, accuracy, and speed while providing increased value-add to all stakeholders. We’ll discuss mentoring and sponsoring. In conclusion, we’ll discuss throttling the pace of expectations.

In this round-table discussion we will briefly give an overview of the Autodesk, Inc., engagement in the various industry consortia and the existing interfaces for the process plant industry and the oil and gas industry. We would like to learn which interfaces and data formats you're using when you exchange PIDs, line lists, bills of materials, 3D piping, steel, and equipment models with all the associated data. Which interface are you using to receive data from FEED (front end engineering design) and to hand over to stress calculation, project management, and procurement system? Which standards are useful, which have obstacles? What can Autodesk and other software vendors do to enable a better collaboration? Which industry activities and standards should we support? Come and let us know.