Mike Engel

Mike Engel, a Senior Product Manager with the AEC Platform Team at Autodesk, is dedicated to delivering connected, useful, and open data solutions that revolutionize the AEC industry. His work focuses on enhancing project delivery processes through innovative data sharing, computational design, and collaboration tools. With a robust career spanning two decades in the architectural design and building sectors before joining Autodesk, Mike has consistently sought to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of project delivery. His extensive background and commitment to leveraging advanced technologies is driving progress and innovation within the AEC community.

  • Decentralizing Project Data: How Empowering Collaboration Can Augment Model Data

    Attributing data outside of a model environment The increasing complexity and scale of information required for modern AECO projects presents significant challenges. Traditional methods of consolidating data within a single BIM model, particularly in a solitary Revit file, are becoming increasingly inadequate. Last year, we made significant strides by unlocking element-level data from Revit, making…

    Construction

  • The AEC Data Model API, the Future of AECO Data, Is Now Available in Australia

    The sheer quantity of information and diversity of tools leveraged in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry has exploded. AEC firms’ data storage was six times higher in 2023 than in 2018.* And the information surge only continues to expand. Due to this growth, users are heavily relying on infrastructure to facilitate flexibility…

    Architecture

  • Discover the AEC Data Model: The First Step in Open AEC Data

    For decades, the AEC industry has been bound to file formats as well as unstructured and siloed data — a constraint that has necessitated the creation of time-intensive workarounds and resulted in duplication of data across products and systems. The new AEC Data Model helps to solve this issue by democratizing data access via a…

    Architecture