The Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) of Victoria, Australia, is delivering a major digital transformation program to manage the transport infrastructure of a state where 6+ million people live. With more than $100 billion in transport infrastructure projects in development through 180+ major projects and with 20,000+ people in jobs, the DTP needed to implement digital engineering standards, processes, and technologies to effectively and securely manage the asset lifecycle from planning to operation and maintenance. This program aims to enhance efficiency through better collaboration and flow of information throughout the project lifecycle. The DTP will present its current digital engineering and digital asset information management initiatives. The session will focus on the road map for streamlining building information modeling (BIM) standards, workflows, and technologies associated with the digital delivery process, and how Autodesk, Esri, and IBM Maximo helped the department better align its processes with technology.

Sydney Metro is Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project. Sydney Metro Northwest, formerly the North West Rail Link, is the first stage of Sydney Metro and will be the first fully-automated metro rail system in Australia. It is on track to open to customers in the first half of 2019. This class will explain the key project goals, design principles, typology and how BIM is helping to achieve this. Autodesk Revit and Navisworks are being used on the project in conjunction with dRofus - the leading data management solution for the global building industry.

Ever wondered how to couple sustainability and technical excellence for infrastructure design? We all know the answer: The earlier we start, the greater impact we can have. But how do we do so with little information? For this challenge, we're developing a new module—Carbon Baseline calculation—for our existing digital solution CARBONTRACKER (Autodesk Platform Services). The added value is clear: Very early in the project, have easy-to-use ratios for assets and inform all stakeholders of their project carbon impact, which leads to optioneering as design evolves. Finally, no other tool is needed for thorough simulations: CARBONTRACKER was developed for detailed design. In our session, you'll discover its use for transport projects within a lifecycle approach, optimization of design time and effort, and decision-making fostering. Sustainability should matter for all project phases. This new module pushes our cultural shift toward sustainability for all, since everybody is part of the sustainable solution!

During this class you will learn about BIM workflow that EGIS has developed for metro & tramway infrastructures & systems. We will show you how the Autodesk tools made it possible to take a step towards the open BIM on the Grand Paris Express automatic metro project, that won the golden BIM award. With the example of Birmingham, we'll demonstrate the convergence between BIM & GIS. This approach helped us to ensure the data continuity, closer collaboration between multidisciplinary & quality throughout the lifecyle of the projects from design to the construction phase while anticipating O&M needs & reducing time.

This class will provide an overview of how Bechtel has used technology to help drive the capital investment project at London Gatwick, which is the world’s busiest single runway airport and the second largest airport in the UK. The discussion will focus on how Autodesk® software has been implemented along with a range of other technologies to deliver a carefully planned, multidisciplinary project, including new terminal buildings, renovations, and infrastructure works. With over 200 projects either in progress or planned, the coordination between the airport authority, Bechtel, and a host of subcontractors is crucial, and it requires intelligent use of standards and collaboration tools. This class will be jointly delivered by Bechtel and Autodesk and will focus on the flow of data from preliminary design through to architecture, engineering, construction, and beyond.

SYSTRA provides consulting services on all the lifecycle of a mass transit and rail infrastructure. Digital transformation of our industry is more and more mature and moving fast. International collaboration on IFCrail or UIC RailTopoModel is clear evidence that we are entering a very exciting period. As an engineering firm dedicated to this market, we address our client needs throughout the life of the rail assets, from transport planning to operations and maintenance. During this class, we will share with you SYSTRA’s vision of this digital transformation and how digital innovation drives our digital strategy, from digital solution for transport planning to digital asset management services. We will focus on Hyperasset, our program to develop in-house solutions to manage the rail assets during the operations and maintenance phase, from the territorial scale down to the catenary object, using all the available technology such as the Forge platform.

Learn how Autodesk Vehicle Tracking can be used in the preliminary design phase of an airport project. Create and then model the movements of both aircraft and ground support vehicles including push-back manoeuvers. But why stop there? It can also be used to model the movements of vehicles inside airport buildings and help to optimize the design and increase safety. Additional transport links can also be designed by using the "Light Rail" module and traffic flow can be improved improved by using the "Roundabout Design" module.

Join Phil Northcott of C-Change Labs and Tim Burnham of Autodesk Consulting to explore new free carbon-analysis tools for design and procurement of infrastructure projects like water and transport networks. We’ll explain the climate impact of concrete and steel, discuss key opportunities for low-cost impact reductions, and cover how to communicate options and savings to stakeholders. The talk will include a short demonstration integrating Civil 3D with EC3 on an example of an underground water network. We’ll generate a sustainability report on the civil design, and show how carbon intensity can be built into a public procurement. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers at the end.

Ishimoto Architects and Engineers, founded in 1927, is an architectural design firm with experts in architecture, structure, and MEP. To achieve better architecture, it’s essential to integrate intelligent models across disciplines and adopt a holistic design approach. We use Revit software to create simulation environments and optimize overall designs. Currently, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism is accelerating BIM-based building permit submissions, requiring intelligent models with vast amounts of data. As BIM managers who also practice design, we can immediately address real-world challenges and provide feedback. For mid-sized firms without dedicated BIM teams, this agile approach is a practical way to integrate BIM smoothly. This session will share how our practices have transformed our project processes.

This class shows how extensions to Autodesk Revit Structure software can dramatically speed up creation of precast elements. You will learn how to define families for hollow core slabs with profiles and the strand patterns. These families will be used for automatic dividing of hollow core slabs into producible panels. We will look at assemblies and describe how the same precast elements can be found automatically. The class also covers how to use the split tools in Revit Structure to split the slabs manually. We will go through the automatic creation of shop drawings and data for the production in the precast factory. With the defining of the transport stacks and the production line, we will see the full workflow from design to production for hollow core slabs inside of Revit Structure.

Learn how to use USD across the Maya tool set to help solve the problem of being able to store, edit, and export complex asset data like modeling, materials, lighting, and shading variations in a single USD container. This also allows users to transport and share these data across different software products along various stages of a pipeline non-destructively and without any loss of fidelity. Create, edit, and share complex USD prototypes with multiple variants, purposes, and so on, using only the Maya tool sets. Finally, use the power of Maya Bifrost to procedurally create an entire city of pods from one unique module by creating complex prototypes and USD Point Instancer that can be rendered easily with the Arnold MtoA plug-in.

This class shows how extensions to Revit Structure Suite software can dramatically speed up creation of precast elements. We will look at different precast elements, such as solid and sandwich walls, solid and hollow core slabs, and columns and beams. You will learn how to split walls and floors into producible panels. We will show how to create different connections, such as anchor plates, connection loops, grout tubes, dowels, column shoes, and so on. We will also discuss the automatic creation of reinforcement and the placing of lifting anchors, and we will go through the automatic creation of shop drawings and data for the production in the precast factory. By defining the transport stacks and the production line, we will see the full workflow from design to production of different precast elements inside of Revit Structure Suite software.

This class shows how extensions to Revit Structure software can dramatically speed up creation of precast elements. We show you how to split walls into producible panels with automatic creation of connections such as anchor plates, connection loops, grout tubes and dowels. We look at the Revit parts with the dividing lines and the creation of assemblies and describe how the same precast elements can be found automatically. The class also covers how to use the split tools in Revit Structure to split the walls manually. We see how reinforcement and the lifting anchors are created automatically through predefined rules. We go through the automatic creation of shop drawings and data for the production in the precast factory. With the defining of the transport stacks and the production line, you see the full workflow from design to production for wall panels inside of Revit Structure.

Huge volumes of drinking water are lost to background leakage during distribution. This entails large financial and environmental footprints from extraction, transport, treatment, storage, and pumping. While water models usually simplify leakage to behave as fixed demands, InfoWater Pro software’s new modeling capabilities explicitly incorporate the sensitivity of losses to pressure changes. In this session, we will demonstrate how to easily convert a regular distribution model into one with realistic leakage using a new allocation tool. Both hydraulic and asset pipe information (such as age, number of connections, and material) is used to determine realistic allocations of known leakage amounts per zone to individual elements. Moreover, we will explore how a leakage-aware model can lead to detailed spatiotemporal estimates of water loss under different operating scenarios, and lead to precise quantifications of the economic and hydraulic effects of asset replacement and pressure-control programs.

Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) offers passenger and freight transport solutions, with a focus on Germany. DB Systel GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of DB and the driver of digitalization for all of the Group companies. Digital representation of assets is vital for instant status checks and effective decision making. Currently, BIM offers asset details during projects, yet maintenance data often resides in isolated silos, managed manually. DB’s current focus is breaking down data silos between BIM and maintenance systems using Autodesk Tandem software to enable artificial intelligence (AI)-driven insights in the future. This session will highlight how DB is piloting Autodesk Tandem software to bring together BIM and maintenance data—which are often disconnected. By connecting intelligent models with live maintenance data, DB accelerates knowledge transfer, improves efficiency, and paves the way for AI-driven predictive maintenance. Learn how Deutsche Bahn is using data and Digital Prototypings, and setting the stage for smarter and sustainable railways.

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

Challenging the deconstruction and decontamination of a former industrial site: the refinery of Dunkerque in France. From a huge data sets of 30 000 old plans and a dynamic scan of a 90Ha area, the low LOD Revit models were made manually but also automatically using IA with image recognition. The representations of the contamination and lithology is modelled with voxels and informed using interpolation scripts with Dynamo directly from georeferenced boreholes stored in excel datasheets. The aim of this BIM model is to create scenariis of depollution depending of what is located underground : pipes, concrete and pollutants.

The drones are coming! Are you considering buying one for your firm? It's more involved than just grabbing the top of the line and then hitting the site for a flight. Yes, rules, regulations, and safety standards-our favorite words as Building Information Modeling (BIM) managers. PCL Construction is the first contractor in Canada to have applied for and be granted a Special Flights Operation Certificate (SFOC) and amendment to fly to an altitude of 830' along with a No-Fly Zone (NFZ) on a T1 airport on a weekly basis. These are some of our findings and lessons learned from using these tools on a construction site in a "cooler" climate. What are the possible uses of drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and unmanned aerial systems (UAS)? What does buying a drone/UAV/UAS mean for your company? What are the regulations in Canada with Transport Canada and NavCanada? What is an SFOC or a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM)? What are the regulations in the United States? What is a Part 107, a Waiver, an FAA Certification, and an NFZ? What data can be captured? How can it be processed? We will also cover best practices and processes, along with safety guidelines.

Max Bögl, a German construction and infrastructure company designed a fully automated urban mobility solution: Transport System Bögl (TSB). It is based on magnetic levitation technology and designed to provide a future-proof public transport for densely populated cities. Max Bögl approached Autodesk Consulting to help finding a quick design solution for their urban mobility systems and build 3D visualization models to communicate the proposed tracks more easily and convincingly. One of the key aspects of the whole design is the light-weight construction of elevated tracks, InfraWorks Bridge Design capabilities with its parametric modelling approach was the perfect answer. This class will highlight the main steps of the solution, the creation of the track and 3D visualization models using Inventor and InfraWorks, including animated parts, generated in 3ds Max to better demonstrate the TSB in action.

A modern VFX (visual effects) rendering pipeline is made up of many materials with detailed descriptions called looks. Looks need to be passed across different software products without loss of fidelity. Current workflows involve duplication across complex pipeline tasks that are hard and laborious to maintain. Arnold software lets you author asset looks in any supported software and then reuse the same looks in another software using the Arnold data format, which is fully extensible. Arnold furthers this approach by capitalizing on open-source back ends like MaterialX and USD, enabling users to build a very flexible, reusable, and connected pipeline. Arnold users can take advantage of this interoperability right out of the box. The data is always live, enabling users to make alterations (major or minor) at any point in the pipeline. In this talk, you will learn about setting up your pipeline to capitalize on reusability of looks. You will also see examples of taking your asset looks through different software.