There are still obstacles to sustainable design. Construction professionals know they must build faster, more efficiently, and more sustainably to meet global demands. The industry is moving away from waste and inefficiency, and is adopting smarter processes, connected teams, and workflows that ensure the right people have access to the data they need to make timely and confident decisions. That's why we need Revit software as a modeling tool; Autodesk Forma software with its conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics, and design automation to help us to select the most-sustainable options in the early stages of the design process; Autodesk Docs software as our common data environment (CDE) and single source of truth; Design Collaboration to manage the exchange of design data between all project teams; Model Coordination for running efficient model coordination and automatic clash detection; Autodesk Build software for improved project, cost, and safety management; and Autodesk Takeoff software for early quantifications and estimations.

This session will introduce a modern, early-stage, design workflow powered by artificial intelligence (AI), connecting Autodesk Forma, Finch, and Revit software. Learn how site data and massing created in Forma can be used directly in Finch to generate compliant floor plans with AI. As the design evolves, Finch automatically builds a Revit-native model using families and model groups, ready for further development and documentation. We’ll showcase a success story from one of our customers (TBA) highlighting how this workflow reduces manual work, supports more-data-driven decisions, and shortens the path from concept to BIM. Whether you’re an architect working in early-stage design or managing BIM execution, this session will provide a clear, practical view of what a connected workflow looks like and how it can accelerate project delivery.

This class will teach you how to automate decision making by applying predefined business logic and rules to data inside Dynamo software. We’ll demonstrate how to push and pull this data into Autodesk Forma and Revit software to achieve predictable design outcomes that meet your BIM and virtual design and construction (VDC) requirements. Understand how to structure your logic to drive step-by-step configuration processes, delivering building models that precisely match your company’s desired outputs. This class will provide tangible solutions, whether the goal is to rapidly iterate through design options in Forma based on product constraints or to automatically generate precise geometry for construction drawings and fabrication models in Revit based on predefined company standards. By the end of this class, you’ll be equipped with the foundational knowledge and practical insights to begin implementing logic-driven design Automation, Integration, & Customization within your own organizations and see how building configuration is possible.

In this Lab, participants will use Forma to set up their own project and start designing and experimenting! We'll cover how to use our rapid operational energy analysis to see and build intuition on the impact of compactness, orientation, and with a few other basic building parameters on operation energy. We'll dig into our AI-powered operational energy analysis to understand how a building's form and primary materials impact the energy consumption and subsequent carbon. We will look at the tradeoff between these ad other analyses, including sunlight, noise, utci and wind to empower you to balance trade-offs and learn how to design in an informed outcome based way. The built environment isn't optimized for a single objective; you need all of this information in the same place and with Forma you get that all in the browser. We will also showcase how Forma is engineered for collaboration.

With parametric and AI-based tools accelerating design iteration, architects now face a new challenge: Our ability to generate ideas outpaces our capacity to meaningfully analyze them. This session will introduce a novel workflow that bridges Rhino software’s modeling speed with Autodesk Forma software’s cloud-based analysis, automating the process of evaluating design iterations in the background as architects continue modeling. We'll demonstrate how automatically pushing variants from Rhino into Forma allows design alternatives to be analyzed across parameters—and how this approach, combined with AI-assisted sorting and filtering, creates a powerful decision-making framework with the potential to reduce evaluation time from days to hours. Teams can comprehensively organize and explore dozens or even hundreds of design options instead of the typical handful, resulting in an early design process that’s more data-informed while maintaining creative momentum.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers is transforming not only how we work—but what we need to build. As demand for digital infrastructure accelerates, so do the challenges: energy consumption, embodied carbon, land use, and impacts on nature and biodiversity. For architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals, the question is no longer if we build for AI, but how we do it sustainably. In this panel, industry leaders will explore what the AI and data center boom means for Sustainable Design and the built environment. We’ll unpack the real-world pressures facing designers, planners, and builders—and the strategies they’re using to respond with agility and impact. From site selection and carbon-aware design to the role of cloud collaboration with tools like Autodesk Construction Cloud and Autodesk Forma software, this session will spotlight how Sustainable Design and innovation must work hand in hand as we design the digital world’s physical foundation.

This session showcases how Podium is transforming early-stage building design workflows by enabling outcome-based decisions from day one. Attendees will see a demonstration of the Podium platform and it’s integration with Autodesk Forma and Revit. Using the new Podium extension we enable property developers to accelerate pre-concept to schematic design workflows. By embedding supplier-defined product data, cost information, and buildability constraints into the pre-concept and schematic design phases, Podium empowers developers to make faster, more informed decisions—balancing commercial constraints, design, time, Sustainable Design, and constructability. We'll show how Podium's engine enables Industrialized Construction by aligning design intent with DfMA, supplier data, and performance goals for better outcomes. Real-world case studies will illustrate the improvements in speed, cost, Sustainable Design, and standardization.

By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

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.