The infrastructure design industry has long struggled to minimize environmental impact. Traditional processes cause inefficiencies, hindering early-stage sustainability prioritization. ORIS and Sweco solved this by embedding ORIS's carbon assessment and emissions modeling capabilities into Autodesk Civil 3D software. ORIS's certified calculator streamlines processes, providing comprehensive impact assessments and quantifying embodied carbon emissions for road designs. The innovative plug-in connects drawings to local material sites in ORIS, empowering whole-lifecycle carbon assessments with visualized supply chains. It automates geolocated project generation linked to ORIS's database, identifies quantities per 3D object for bills of materials, and generates accurate carbon footprints based on required materials. Designers can make informed sustainable-sourcing decisions, reducing emissions while promoting local solutions and recycling. This integration solves long-standing sustainability challenges.

A single source of truth is critical for information exchanges in rail and urban large complex projects involving diverse disciplines—from highways, structures, and architecture to dry and wet utilities. It allows enhanced real-time coordination and supports sustainability through carbon tracking. This case study will discuss how SYSTRA adopted this approach for large-scale, industrial, city infrastructure projects spanning more than 45 square kilometers and housing 90,000 people. We'll showcase how this approach empowered global task teams from France, India, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai to transcend geographical barriers, enabling real-time coordination that drove the creation of complex designs. We'll also show how we used in-house tools like eLODY (Model Checker), PABLO (digital twin), and CARBON TRACKER (derived from Autodesk Platform Services) to streamline design delivery, ensuring adherence to ISO 19650 information management standard for superior project outcomes for all stakeholders.

This session will examine the transformative potential of digital twins in the rail sector, as demonstrated by the Digitale Schiene Deutschland of Deutsche Bahn. Using models enhances AI-driven railway operations, resulting in significant improvements in efficiency and reliability. The use of digital twins in the rail industry is growing globally, with rail systems adopting them to optimize asset management and operational strategies. These systems use building information modeling (BIM) data to facilitate seamless integrations from planning to execution and operations. This presentation will address the issues of data integrity, accessibility, and cross-stakeholders collaboration, with an emphasis on the solutions to enhance the analysis of data and the resilience of systems. This session will also offer insights into future rail advances, with a particular focus on how digital twins can be used in the evolution of railway operations into intelligent, secure, and environmentally conscious systems.

Dashboards allow companies to present data in a way that's easy to digest. With a consolidated view of data and insights, they also play a key role in helping to derive actionable insights and tell the right stories to the right stakeholders to propel business performance. Autodesk Construction Cloud provides users with the incredible ability to extract project data and display it on an unlimited number of dashboards, as data visualization is paramount to any business to understand complex data in a very simplistic manner—enabling companies to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics, and make informed decisions leading to enhanced productivity and greater project collaboration. Autodesk Insight software empowers companies to display data generated from a vast number of sources using an unlimited number of dashboards as data visualization becomes the leading source for making informed decisions to enhance productivity.

The building information modeling (BIM) concept of design and delivery is maturing and ever-greater projects are being developed. This trend is especially noticeable in infrastructure projects, where collaboration, automation, and advantages of 3D design play a critical role. This session will introduce you to the SOFiSTiK Bridge + Infrastructure Modeler (SBIM), a well-established application for Revit that helps you create linear structures. We'll present various functionalities together with project examples from industry leaders. We'll also focus on the modeling of reinforcement and prestressing for concrete bridges. Parametric profile-based design is taken to the next level with enriched information for rebars and tendons. It gives you more flexibility and custom levels of parametrization. Everything is controlled and adjusted with user-friendly input. Rebar and tendon annotations, elevation schedules, and other model-based information can be extracted and shared with other stakeholders.

This session will explore the tool for automatic generation of 3D rebar shop drawing utilizing Revit. The tool uses parametric modeling to create complicated rebar shop drawings twice as fast as conventional methods. When applied to a diaphragm wall of the subway project, the tool achieved a labor cost reduction of 150,000 USD. In addition, the speeding up of the shop drawing creation process enabled a more rational design with more detailed design cross-sections, and a 10% reduction in rebar material compared to the initial design. To improve the efficiency of the subsequent rebar processing process, trials are underway to link rebar information in Revit with rebar processing machines. In large-scale infrastructure projects, activities related to reinforcement (such as drawing, fabrication, and assembly) significantly impact the schedules and costs. This tool is expected to contribute to solving human resource issues and to sustainability by reducing material losses.

Discover the transformative power of cloud technologies in the water, building, and infrastructure sectors. To address complex challenges and advanced visualization needs, Arcadis has developed the Asset Generator. This innovative cloud-based tool automates the creation of Revit models, and facilitates master planning in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. Within four months of its release, it has led to 49% time saved on project planning and visualization activities. In this session, we'll explore how integrating Autodesk Platform Services and APIs, Esri's ArcGIS, and Microsoft Azure can improve project workflows and enhance building information modeling (BIM) practices. You'll gain insights into selecting and customizing digital tools to simplify and democratize technology access in industries that may be resistant to digital adoption. Join this class to uncover how embracing these technologies can empower teams, increase efficiency, enhance collaboration, and ultimately revolutionize project design and management.

Explore the dynamic integration of ArcGIS GeoBIM with Autodesk Construction Cloud, a transformative approach enhancing construction workflows through geographic information system (GIS) and building information modeling (BIM). This session will explore how geographical data and the latest intelligent models are synchronized seamlessly, enabling TIN (triangulated irregular network) surface for elevation profiles, and precise long section analyses directly in GIS. Attendees will gain insights into using these integrations for improved project visualization, GIS data integrated with intelligent models, and site management. We'll share tips learned from creating as-built models with go-go points to be added in long section profiles, all managed through Civil 3D enhancements. This hands-on presentation will cover the technicalities of integrating GIS information with construction data, optimizing issue resolution, and facilitating smoother transitions between project stages. It's ideal for lineal construction technology and geographic information systems integration.

Come learn how Civil Engineering firm WSB moved nearly 400 users and over 400 projects from the network to Construction Cloud in one year and ditched the server. We'll cover lessons learned along the way and improving file management techniques. How to manage Desktop Connector and Civil 3D and techniques to reduce file management errors and circular references. Learn how to utilize file naming templates to optimize company file management standards. Dive into the user management system and how to optimize managing users, permissions and project templates. Leveraging Bridge to establish connections across projects and clients utilizing Construction Cloud. We will finish the course with bringing the entire team together, whether they use a CAD platform or not. Learn how to use the review tools, markups and create issues and leverage quality management tools that keep the team communicating and connected. Are you ready to ditch the server and make the move to the cloud?

Bridge design and modeling pose unique challenges that demand innovative solutions. Join us for an insightful workshop where we'll explore how to model complex superstructures in Revit using scalable workflows powered by the Revit API. In the first part, attendees will learn about our bridge department's transition from complex Dynamo workflows to an internal add-in solution, making the modeling process more scalable and user friendly. The second part will feature a hands-on lab, allowing participants to explore the API workflows and create their own superstructures using the some of the tools and plug-ins we've developed.

In this session, we'll explore the intricacies of drainage design workflows for transportation projects, including rail, roads, and highways. Using Autodesk's InfoDrainage and Civil 3D software, we'll present a streamlined workflow that facilitates the interaction and data exchange between both software solutions, with a special emphasis on drainage for transportation-related projects. One of the key learnings will be spotlighting the data exchange and results migration capabilities between civil design software (Civil 3D) and drainage design software (InfoDrainage), without the interjection of spreadsheets. Additionally, we'll highlight InfoDrainage software's machine learning (ML) deluge feature, with emphasis on its potential to expedite the concept and early planning process by rapidly identifying ponding locations on a site. Testing data showed the ML deluge outperforming traditional deluge by identifying ponding on a site in four seconds compared to more than nine minutes.

In this session, we'll walk through an end-to-end cloud-centered workflow on using large point-cloud data for detailed design using ReCap Pro software and the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. We will share simple tools to prepare surfaces, intelligently decimate large point-cloud data, publish to Autodesk Construction Cloud, and collaboratively extract design elements (like curbs, gutters, median, walls, ADA ramps, driveways, and drainage breaklines) and assets via browser and take them into detailed design technology like Civil 3D software to generate highly accurate surface models. Users can also publish the extracted features and assets to ArcGIS to use the information across the organization. This is a workflow the point cloud industry has been wanting for decades!

When a large-scale infrastructure project gets started, you'll need to use tools in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection to work with your data efficiently. The information in this session will reduce the time it takes to process huge files, from processing LiDAR-based surface models in ReCap software to implementing Autodesk Construction Cloud workflows. Speed up open times, improve collaboration, and learn best practices you can use immediately. We'll dive into topics that include: determining when to break up files using Data Shortcuts, managing .mms files for large surface models, using Autodesk Docs software for data management, and adjusting AutoCAD settings for optimal performance.

Don't just analyze your storm pipe networks; design them in one go with Civil 3D and InfoDrainage Ultimate software. Supercharge your workflow using Autodesk Docs software to store rainfall data and other design resources. Exchange data between Civil 3D and InfoDrainage for green infrastructure efficiency. Save time by storing pipe exchange settings and collaborating in the cloud.

From gigaprojects to roads, manufacturing facilities, and everything in between, using technology that serves many diverse markets is no small task. The fun really starts when you add in the opinions of 55,000+ people. We at Jacobs have been rolling out Autodesk Construction Cloud as our common data environment (CDE) across our global business. We've seen some great results and hit plenty of roadblocks, but we're well on our way to establishing a global means of working in Autodesk Construction Cloud that will change the way we deliver projects. We're here to share what we've learned, and lead others down the path of digital transformation. The team members will offer insight into their different experiences of implementing Autodesk Construction Cloud. Each journey has been different, and most are at different stages on their continued journeys. Are you interested in civil? Buildings? Life sciences? ISO 19650? Join us for a panel of Jacobs leaders working to make Autodesk Construction Cloud the company's single source of truth, and see what you can learn from all we've accomplished.

This session begins with participants embarking on a concise yet enlightening journey through the evolution of CAD, culminating in the present day. The discussion will cover the advantages and challenges faced by today's designers and engineers before exploring Autodesks' end-to-end solutions which have been developed to help balance time and resources, and mitigate the chaos, by providing a logical and structured approach to specific design and engineering workflows such as Roads and Highway design, Flood Risk Simulation etc.

Join us for a dynamic and interactive AU 2024 panel discussion, where leading infrastructure experts in geospatial information systems (GIS) will converge to explore the transformative impact that GIS has on built-world projects. This session aims to foster a deep dialogue between our panel of seasoned professionals and the audience. Together, we will navigate the evolving landscape of infrastructure development, focusing on how GIS technologies drive efficiency, sustainability, and innovation in this critical sector. Expect a lively exchange of ideas, experiences, and insights as we collectively tackle the most-pressing topics and challenges facing infrastructure professionals today. Whether you're a project manager, engineer, planner, or GIS specialist, this panel will provide valuable perspectives on using geospatial intelligence for infrastructure excellence.

Discover how VHB, a leading engineering firm, has transformed stormwater management by utilizing InfoDrainage. Attendees will learn how VHB improved their efficiency by transitioning from multiple software solutions to InfoDrainage, a unified and integrated platform. This session will illustrate the pitfalls of designing drainage systems using isolated drainage design tools and spreadsheets, highlighting the associated data loss and their inability to handle complexities. Through a comprehensive case study, attendees will gain insights into how VHB leveraged InfoDrainage to enhance their drainage design workflows and advance sustainable drainage systems. The presentation will explore the technical features of InfoDrainage, highlighting its sophisticated simulation tools powered by the hydrodynamic formulation of the SWMM engine. These tools are designed for accurate representation of the interactions between various drainage objects to tackle the challenges associated with complex sites.

Step into the evolving world of building information modeling (BIM) and digital twins, and learn how to master their application beyond the build phase and into the building operations. Discover how to enhance your building portfolio management with a focus on practical, user-friendly solutions. We'll explore the seamless integration of Autodesk Tandem and Eptura, providing you with the tools to streamline your facility management. You'll learn how to adapt these innovations to your specific operational needs, and gain actionable strategies for effectively using asset and building data across your building portfolio. This session will also provide insights into making these technologies accessible, alongside real-world case studies that illustrate successful applications during various operational stages.

As we focus on digital transformation in finding ways to automate repetitive tasks, this class is perfect for Civil 3D and AutoCAD users who would like to experience and learn how to maximize their use of Dynamo for Civil 3D. In this hands-on lab, we'll provide you with a step-by-step guide on how to create basic Dynamo routines. We'll start with the fundamental nodes and then proceed with understanding how to reuse and manipulate the Dynamo scripts. You'll learn how you can further enhance your skills by using the Dynamo primer samples as a starting point. This session is for beginners and is intended to inspire people who want to innovate a new workflow.