Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

Digital Workplaces are evolving—from structured asset handover to real-time operational insight and, insightful operations. In this session, the Tandem team will walk through the next phase of their roadmap, highlighting how Tandem is transforming Digital Workplaces into actionable tools for building owners, operators, and project teams. Learn how recent enhancements are enabling Insightful Operations through curated dashboards, KPI tracking, and system integrations—and what’s coming next to support portfolio-wide optimization. Whether you're delivering a Descriptive Twin or planning for predictive analytics, this session will help you stay ahead of where Digital Workplaces are headed.

Imagine walking a design site before it’s ever built, with grading, buildings, and utilities unfolding around you in full context. Immersive Digital Workplaces make that possible, turning project models into shared experiences that improve communication and bring teams into alignment before construction begins. In this fast-paced, high-level session, three voices from civil design, immersive technology, and construction will share insights from the field. Rather than a technical deep dive, this session offers a big-picture look at how immersive Digital Workplaces are bridging disciplines, reducing errors, and clarifying complex data throughout the project lifecycle. When stakeholders can visualize a design in its environment, they are empowered to make faster, more confident decisions. Join us to explore how immersive workflows support better outcomes from concept through construction.

One of the biggest challenges in is getting disciplines to work together, sharing data and information in real time. Whether technical, organizational, or cultural, silos slow progress, create inefficiencies, and keep teams from reaching their full potential. This panel brings together industry leaders who are actively climbing that mountain. Through candid conversation, they’ll share real-world struggles, setbacks, and the steps they’re taking to reach higher ground. Expect honest insights, bold ideas, and practical strategies to break down barriers, improve communication, and build stronger, more connected teams. If you’re navigating the uphill journey of , this session is your chance to pause, gain perspective, and gather the tools needed to keep moving forward together.

Informed Design is changing how we think about construction by connecting design, fabrication, and performance to deliver smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable outcomes. Built on the principles of outcome-based BIM, it shifts the focus from drawings to results, ensuring what is designed can be accurately fabricated and effectively delivered. This class will explore how tools like Revit and Inventor software enable early coordination and support modular construction, with a focus on prefabricated frames. Whether you’re in design, engineering, or delivery, you’ll learn how Informed Design reduces rework, improves buildability, enhances Sustainable Design, and sets projects up for success. At A.G. Coombs, we’re preparing to apply this approach within a whole-of-life framework, drawing on our downstream expertise to help close the loop between design and long-term performance. Join us to see how Informed Design can add value to your projects now and into the future.

Using Autodesk Fusion software for rapid PCB design, the E-Tech team at Ford Design is creating modular system components to streamline development and reduce wiring complexity. By embracing PCB basics, design rules, and community resources, we're building reusable libraries and integrating program-specific features in our experiential properties around the globe. This approach enables faster prototyping, repeatable builds, and enhanced system continuity—with ESP32-based modules featuring Ethernet for server communication. We're focused on adaptable form factors and making PCB design accessible for makers and rapid iteration.

In this session, we’ll explore Autodesk’s MEP Content Editor, a powerful tool designed to streamline the creation and customization of fabrication components within Revit and AutoCAD workflows. You’ll gain hands-on insights into modifying database-driven parts, adjusting specifications, and optimizing content for enhanced project coordination. We’ll cover best practices for maintaining data consistency, using parametric capabilities, and integrating manufacturer-specific components to ensure accuracy in fabrication modeling. Whether you're a BIM manager, detailer, or engineer, this session will equip you with the skills to efficiently manage and refine MEP fabrication content, improving workflow efficiency and project outcomes.

This award-winning panel is back again with new topics to discuss and insights to share. This year, the panel will comprise a diverse group of CAD managers who are widely respected as leaders in their field. They will focus on connectivity, which can mean many things to a CAD manager. Topics will range from technology and data to the even more challenging human aspects of teams and workflows. Hear their unique perspective and learn about solutions to challenges faced by CAD managers from organizations of all sizes and backgrounds. Join us for a panel discussion that has become an anticipated AU tradition. You won’t want to miss this chance to hear the important lessons learned from decades of experience—from four CAD managers who have been there and done that.

This session will focus on the new interoperability between Factory Design Utilities software and FlexSim, showcasing the access of the Factory Design Utilities library in FlexSim as well as the export of a factory layout from FlexSim to a Factory Design Utilities tool. We’ll also share future development plans for FlexSim and Factory Design Utilities and what Autodesk is doing for the Factory Design Utilities space.

In this session, we’ll explore the development and application of a web-based tool designed to streamline the application of zones into an architectural Revit model. Our application uses the AEC data model and integrates Autodesk Assistant, an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) agent, allowing users to interrogate their models using natural language. By automating these processes, our solution significantly reduces manual effort, while increasing model visibility. We estimate that our solution can save us an average of eight hours per project. Whether you’re interested in streamlining zone assignment or just want to see a cool AI tool, this session has something for you!

Sit down with the Inventor product team and discuss your most-pressing issues, concerns, and questions about Inventor. A number of Inventor team members will be available to answer your questions. What are the best practices for maximizing your Inventor use? How are Inventor projects prioritized and chosen for each release? Where is Inventor going in the near future? Model States, BIM workflows, Drawings, Sheet Metal, Autodesk Fusion vs. Inventor—all your favorite topics will be open for discussion.

Get a greater understanding of how businesses can unlock the full potential of Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension Product Lifecycle Management in our immersive hands-on workshop designed for those who are eager to enhance their knowledge of what PLM can offer. This workshop aims to provide you with an in-depth understanding of the powerful Fusion Manage Extension features and tools, enabling you to streamline your workflows and optimize your business processes. In this introduction to Fusion Manage Extension, you’ll gain a comprehensive overview of Fusion Manage Extension and its key functionalities. This workshop is ideal for those who want to learn more about the power of PLM or want to get hands-on with the technology.

Generative design isn’t just a buzzword - it’s a powerful tool that can reshape how we approach projects in Civil 3D. Yet many users are unsure where to begin to implement generative design into their daily workflows. This class will explore how you can implement generative design into various Civil 3D workflows to create smarter, clash-free models, streamline tasks, and unlock better project outcomes. This session will demonstrate various real-world examples of where generative design can be applied, including route optimization & asset placement. You’ll learn how to prepare Dynamo graphs for use in generative design before creating generative design studies, evaluating outcomes and generating geometry in Civil 3D – all with practical real-world examples. Whether you’re looking to reduce risk, lower costs, improve Sustainable Design or simply work smarter, this class will give you the confidence and tools to put generative design to work on your Civil 3D projects.

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.

As land development and civil engineering projects continue to demand greater efficiency and precision, the Civil 3D Grading Optimization tool has emerged as a promising solution for automating and streamlining the grading process. This presentation will offer a practical, hands-on perspective from a daily Civil 3D user actively engaged in site design projects. Drawing from real-world experience, we will explore how the tool integrates into typical design workflows, discuss its strengths in accelerating conceptual grading and balancing earthwork, cover the key benefits it brings in terms of design iteration and visualization, and examine a few limitations. This session aims to provide an honest, experience-based evaluation of Grading Optimization, offering insights for professionals considering its adoption and those looking to enhance their current use of the tool.

This case study demonstrates the benefit of implementing a small 2D domain within an existing 1D InfoWorks ICM model to optimize the size and location of a planned storage facility and reduce overland flooding in a dense suburban neighborhood in the City of Toronto. Recent flooding imagery captured in 2018 and 2020 showed significant flooding in Woodborough Park and visible damage to facilities. The project team planned and designed drainage and storage mitigations by building a small-scale 2D surface model of the park and surrounding catchment area (39 hectares) within the larger 1D InfoWorks ICM model being used to plan and design the Fairbank Storm Trunk Sewer System Project. This approach enabled the designers to optimize the size of the storage facility and realize a 35% reduction in construction costs. We’ll present the approach used to develop the model, and there will be a discussion on what considerations should be given before adopting this approach to ensure the maximum benefit to the project.

Have you ever been doing the same thing repeatedly in AutoCAD software and thought, “Shouldn’t it know what I’m doing by now?” Or maybe you spend too much time drafting and not enough time designing. AutoCAD is the gold standard—but maybe in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) it could be smarter. This is where you come in. The focus of this class is making AutoCAD more powerful. Not more buttons—smarter software. Think of the recent smart blocks, but go beyond that. There’s similar geometry we all draw whether you’re in civil, manufacturing, and so on. We’re forever drawing things parallel, perpendicular, tangent, or concentric. What if AutoCAD picked up on this and started to draw for us? Join us for a discussion with AutoCAD product managers Peter Qian and Can Anbarlilar. We’ll touch on the current progress on this initiative and then move to discussion, with Brian Levendowski mediating. Be a part of shaping the future of AutoCAD!

Implementing color in your drawings is more than just choosing something in an RGB tone. We must understand how Revit software functions at a fairly deep level to know how to control it easily and quickly. This class will look at materials, view and object overrides, and view filters with templates. It'll also branch over into families and edits required in those to support color fill in documentation. Once completed, you'll know the pitfalls of color implementation and how to take control of your model to empower your team to replicate your efforts on any project.

Making spaces accessible for people with sensory sensitivities—high sensitivity, neurodivergence, and histories of trauma—improves productivity, health, and learning outcomes. Understanding the sensory impact of architectural decisions makes a significant impact on long-term building usability. This discussion will explore the many different types of sensory sensitivity, debunk some myths about neurodivergence, and illustrate the benefits of sensory accessibility for all people.