How are you connecting your teams, your workflows, your stakeholders? How are you increasing resilience and sustainability? How are you implementing new technologies—and why? AU 2022 is the place where progress happens. Where the future is reimagined. Where professionals from across industries share valuable insights, lessons learned, and visions of a new possible. And this year, we’re back in person with a new look in a new city—New Orleans, LA. READ MORE >

More than six billion people around the world are expected to live in cities by 2050. To meet that growing need, we need to build a staggering number of buildings—as many as 13,000 a day by some estimates. And we’ll need to create denser and more complex designs, too—and create them in a sustainable way. READ MORE >

There is the physical world and the digital world. They’re not the same, but they inform each other—and the lines between them are blurring. In architecture and manufacturing, we first create digital models to make real buildings and products. And data from physical buildings and products can inform digital models, which in turn will inform the design of future buildings and products. READ MORE >

BIM was born nearly 50 years ago, with an article by Charles M. Eastman, “The Use of Computers Instead of Drawings in Building Design,” published in the AIA Journal. During the years that followed, researchers and technologists increasingly recognized the potential of BIM to revolutionize the design and build industry. As our computers have become more powerful and digital tools have become more sophisticated, we’re now realizing that there’s another area where BIM and data can make a huge difference—one that has received far less attention: maintenance and operations. READ MORE >

Heirloom Carbon Technologies, an Autodesk Foundation impact investment recipient, is a start-up bringing to market a cost-effective, scalable direct air capture carbon dioxide removal solution. Technology has brought us many benefits, but in some cases significant negative impacts as well—for people and our planet. From carbon-based fuels driving climate change to industrial waste hurting the health of individuals and the broader ecosystem, various technologies can be seen as a root cause of some of the biggest global problems we face today. READ MORE >