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.

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.

Site grading is a complicated task, and users are presented with a number of different options. Corridors are stable but require deep knowledge of the toolset; Grading Objects are easy to use but unstable. Feature Lines are a great option for site grading because they are simple enough to be used effectively by newer users and are very stable. However, poorly drawn Feature Lines leave designers with choppy surface contours, flat spots, and an urge to draw contours manually. In this class, we’ll review the fundamentals of Feature Lines and their interactions with surfaces. Students will be directed in workflows using the right Feature Line editing tool in the right situation. Students will then be shown how to best use the "Relative to Surface" feature (new in version 2018) and other examples of best practices for Feature Lines to optimize their designs. Finally, we’ll cover a workflow for creating dynamic, variable-depth datum surfaces for parking-lot grading.

This class will cover 3D modelling for design intent, design ideation, generative design, simulation, rendering, and CAM workflows. Bruno Pfister contacted CADPRO Systems in 2015 to find out about a product called Fusion 360, wondering if it could help him to develop CAM programs for his brand-new Haas computer numerical control (CNC) machine. His goal was to design and manufacture BMX components for New Zealand's competitive grassroots and professional BMXers. This class tells his story about the development of cranks and chain rings used at various international events including the 2016 BMX World Championships in Columbia.

Based on the successful construction of a sustainable water reuse (purple pipe) project, this class breaks down the steps for managing large diameter (20 inch +) waterlines on major (5+ miles) projects. We show the basics for modeling existing utilities, managing updates to utility models based on test pit data, and pulling from the AutoCAD® Civil 3D® road design toolset to develop waterline models. As we begin to dive into the pressure pipe tools of Civil 3D 2014, we discuss the transition to those new features. Next, we show you how to market the process of design on infrastructure projects, so as to show the 3D elements of what's still delivered as 2D paper plans. With expansive projects, the use of InfraWorks™ software has provided a great set of tools for quickly compiling data from multiple sources into a single location and present visualizations based on active design files to clients and the community.

As a construction company, experienced in the retail sector, we see an important change in the requirements of our customers. They want to see results faster, cheaper, and are more demanding. Sustainability is becoming increasingly important. We make this possible with digitalized and integrated construction processes and intensive collaboration. With the Stamhuis Total Concept we create a convergence between AEC and manufacturing in one company, from concept, design and engineering to manufacturing, pre-assembly, installation, and maintenance. In this lecture we will present how we deal with BIM projects and apply the principles of modularity, interchangeability, and prefabrication throughout the preparation, execution, and production phases with Autodesk Revit, Inventor, and Navisworks. You will understand how we guarantee the purchase orders from our clients by linking the processes to CMMS and ERP software. We will showcase the importance of Autodesk BIM 360 as our central platform for connecting all disciplines, stimulating collaboration and promoting communication. Finally, we will give you some insight on how Generative Design brings the Stamhuis Total Concept to a higher level, by optimizing the conceptual design of our retail projects and by automating time-consuming tasks. Autodesk and Stamhuis acting as an innovator provides unique applications that will be game changers for our industry. We invite everyone to think along with us and build a better world together.

Over the past few years point clouds have gone from novelty to design requirement. During this time many companies have encountered technological limitations due to insufficient hardware and software solutions. Much has changed. The reality computing technology from Autodesk, Inc., is making laser scan data easier and more efficient to use than ever. This class will examine real Autodesk user experiences regarding how these firms are successfully implementing point cloud data for plant design. Gain insight on the software used, the growing pains experienced in introducing new technology, and the workflows adopted to help users get from the field to completed design. This class will also recommend favorable workflows within Plant Design Suite 2015 software. Discover how to achieve typically needed plant deliverables, including catalog piping and structural design, tie-in point extraction, clash reporting, isometrics, and equipment analysis all from native Autodesk point clouds.

In this session, RPS / GMIT present a successful case study of industry and academia collaboration. The market was extremely competitive and required new skills to survive in business. In a rapidly changing industry with government mandates fast approaching, we didn't wait. We recognised the need for a significant step change in our approach to learning and training in order to win new work. We needed to implement a company-wide commitment to change organisational structure, corporate culture, and IT systems. BIM and digital technologies needed to be the new way of working and it was perceived to be too great a change. When RPS recognised the need to develop a strategy to progress BIM in our company, we invested in technology and existing/new staff CPD that would allow us to deliver in this new environment. At the time no flexible BIM programme was available to meet our business needs, the solution was an industry-academia collaboration that improved our staff skills that was required for this step change. This provided new opportunities for staff to win new work internationally.

When adopting new design tools such as Revit software, Inventor software, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software, there are some 'No Go' rules for starting a project: don't start with a large project; don't start with a new client; don't start without proper training. This class will share an insider's view of the lessons learned from a $200 million, 192,000-square-foot, process plant facility expansion project that broke the rules and yet is a success today by any definition. We will explain why the client plans to incorporate Building Information Modeling (BIM) on all future projects. Topics of the class include training strategies, database considerations, data sharing between stakeholders, and data sharing between software platforms. Learn how Navisworks project review software saved the day. See how point clouds and reality computing are incorporated before, during, and after construction.

The key to mastering Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, Autodesk® Revit® MEP, or Autodesk® Revit® Structure software is the ability to create intelligent, parametric families for your content libraries. It's not as easy as simply building a 3D model. This class will show you how to use the modeling tools in the Revit Family Editor, as well as the process of creating intelligent parameters to properly control family dimensions, behavior, and visibility. Additionally, you will learn how to make sure that your families "play nice" with other elements in your model.

The use of reality capture technology and processes in the AEC industry has transformed the design process for the refurbishment and alterations of existing built assets. What was once the niche undertaking of experienced technology and survey companies working on large projects, has now become the starting point for projects of all sizes undertaken by a wide variety of industry professions. However, the conversion of laser scan data to an existing BIM can still be a time-consuming process. This hands-on session will go through the fundamentals of Scan to BIM in Autodesk Revit along with techniques to supercharge your scan to BIM conversion using the FARO PointSense for Revit plugin. The class will begin with a look at the various laser scan formats available, how these translates to Autodesk Recap and how we can optimise the recap project for better functionality and usability within Autodesk Revit. The PointSense for Revit plugin includes a large array of tools for the semi-automated modelling of building elements from point clouds. Starting with coordinate systems and moving through elements such as walls, columns, beams and pipework, the attendees will have the chance to test the semi-automated modelling capabilities on various sample data sets. Quality assurance within the Scan to BIM process is of critical importance and this class will cover tools that can be used to highlight errors in the scan to model conversion process and methods we can use to record these. We will also look at how these same tools can be used to deform elements such as floors to more accurately reflect the real-world conditions. The aim of the session is for attendees to leave with a better understanding of the potential tools available to them, which could ultimately increase the productivity and quality of existing BIMs created by themselves, their teams, and their companies.

As the horizontal construction world continues to catch up with the all-encompassing contractors, we will once again dive into the use of 3D heavy civil construction models and the workflow associated with them. We will cover the benefits of using a 3D model, starting at the bid and going through construction and lastly as-builts. Shown through the eyes of a contractor, we will share both field and office experiences while displaying project examples. We will discuss creating models for bidding, procuring field data to support 3D models (including unmanned aerial vehicles and laser scanning), using AutoCAD Civil 3D software to build excavation models for quantification and automated machine guidance, modeling to determine means and methods, utilizing the 3D model in the field for stake less layout, and using clash in Navisworks software. We will also cover virtual design coordination with owners and subcontractors, decreased turnaround time on requests for information / change orders, safety benefits, point clouds, and fabrication plans.

Can BIM underpin a smart future for predictive maintenance post occupancy? The recent advent of live, online collaborative databases of BIM information, shared in cloud-based services, presents a very real opportunity for us to consider BIM as a key smart system to be designed into a building and residing on a common data network. The purpose is to make smart and automated management decisions about the operation of the building—essentially we’re talking about predictive maintenance.

Every morning, the PCL Construction team that’s building the 11-acre, 516-room JW Marriott Bonnet Creek hotel in Orlando, Florida, starts with the same routine: reviewing a high-resolution map of the site (captured by one of the firm’s daily drone flights) to effectively plan and coordinate the day’s work. A couple of years ago, using up-to-date drone maps for daily site and logistics planning was unheard of. Now, PCL project teams can’t live without them. This use case is part of a larger trend: drone data, once confined to the VDC team, has become a “must have” resource for entire project teams, owners, and more. In fact, on this JW Marriott project alone, there are more than 50 stakeholders regularly viewing their drone maps and models. In this session, PCL’s JW Marriott project team—Matthew Dodge, project manager; and Kevin Johnson, construction modeling specialist—will share the impact that drone data has had on this project and how other contractors can do the same.

Stretch it, break it, and then redesign and print it. This session will make all your childhood dreams come true. We'll show you the workflow of how to create exceptional elements using the scan-save-style-set-sample-and-show-off method! Sounds simple, right? But so many of us don't tackle 3D printing because we don't know how to prepare files, or we don't have access to high-end 3D printers. The world of 3D printing is limitless, let us show you how we adapted it for our Rat Rod truck. Just one application. Come and see the Revit Rat Rod in the exhibition area, and see our ideas come to life with Revit, 3D printing, and point clouds.

Companies around the world continue to demand unique creative features within the built environment, from architectural sculpture (including custom-carved woodwork, plaster and stone doors, stair railings, columns, archways, and ceilings) right through to the complete immersive fantasy experiences you'll find in casinos, theme parks, and museums. In these cases customers require the appearance of unique handcrafted 'works of art,' while suppliers require the speed, flexibility, and repeatability provided by the latest CAD/CAM tools. In this class you will learn how these come together.

This class covers the implementation of an integrated BIM system inside the Design and Construction Joint Venture (VCGP + ASTALDI) of the Santiago de Chile Airport. On this project, BIM data life cycle starts with model authoring creation using Autodesk Revit and Civil 3D for 354.000 m2 on buildings and 880.000 m2 on infrastructures. Design Review and Constructability Analysis are performed with the support of Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D, Recap, Infraworks, Navisworks and Tekla Structure. Throughout the project, BIM collaboration and coordination are ensured with Autodesk Navisworks. Connection of BIM models with construction planning (Primavera) is done via Synchro software for 4D simulation. At the end of the project, As Built BIM models (LOD 500) are handed over for O&M software (IBM Maximo) link purposes. A particular attention will be brought to the challenges of implementing such process on a large scale project as well as best practices for BIM deliverables to final clients.