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Maximizing Construction IQ and Machine Learning for Predictive Analytics

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Project stakeholders need to understand the state of their projects in a simple and easy-to-consume format. Autodesk Construction Cloud users can maximize the power of Construction IQ software to produce predictive insights and display the project analytics in a powerful but easy-to-understand dashboard with live links to the information. Construction IQ, with the help of machine learning, allows the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams to prioritize issues, and streamline and expedite decision making, thus improving the project delivery outcomes for all stakeholders. This presentation will showcase GHD's use of machine learning within Construction IQ to surface the data on safety and quality, enabling the resolution of issues before they become critical on site. Through this session, you'll better understand how to implement Construction IQ on your project today, gaining insights into projects that otherwise wouldn't be possible.

Key Learnings

  • Learn about the project types for which the Construction IQ and machine learning can be used.
  • Learn how to access machine-learning-based risk analytics for quality and safety data of your project.
  • Learn how to customize dashboards using additional Construction IQ cards.
  • Learn how to create and share with project teams custom dashboards with Construction IQ cards.

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  • Avatar for Deepak Maini
    Deepak Maini
    Deepak is a multiple award-winning International Speaker and a Top-selling author. Based in Sydney, Australia, he is a qualified Mechanical Engineer and has helped implement construction technologies in projects ranging from a few million to several billion dollars. His books on the technologies used in the building construction industry, such as Autodesk Navisworks and Autodesk Advance Steel, are top sellers in their categories and are used by dozens of universities worldwide. Currently, Deepak works as the Principal Business Consultant with Autodesk, helping customers streamline and optimize the use of technology in their projects.
  • Steven Bloomer
    Steven Bloomer, a regional BIM Lead and GHD Associate based in the vibrant city of Brisbane, Australia. Steven is recognized as an ISO 19650 certificated BIM professional with over 18 years of experience delivering complex projects using predominately Autodesk applications and other associated BIM-enabled software. With a diverse portfolio spanning various continents, Steven's experience includes roads, rail, bridges, stadia, healthcare, high-rise, retail and residential projects. Steven's global influence has been unmistakable from beginning his career in the United Kingdom to delivering mega projects in the Middle East, South America, and Australia. Day to day, Steven is responsible for a team of highly motivated BIM project delivery professionals at GHD. Steven's commitment to driving progress in the BIM community includes being an active member of the Autodesk Feedback and User Research communities, including attending "Inside the Factory for Revit”.
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DEEPAK MAINI: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you guys are. Thanks for joining us in this AU 2023 class about maximizing Construction IQ and machine learning for predictive analytics. A quick introduction about myself. My name is Deepak Maini based out of Sydney, Australia. I'm a principal business consultant with Autodesk. With over 24 years experience in the industry, I've helped our customers implement technology on projects ranging from a few million to several billion dollars.

It's my 12th year as an AU speaker and also eighth year as an AU mentor. I'm also a guest lecturer at various universities locally within Australia and overseas. Written a few books on some design and construction software such as Advanced Steel, Navisworks, and so on. And this is my aim. Next, I want to introduce my colleague and good friend Steven Bloomer. Steven?

STEVEN BLOOMER: Thank you, Deepak. My name is Steven Bloomer. And I'm a regional BIM lead at GHD. Our background is building engineering but, most recently I've been leading major infrastructure projects. Day to day, I lead a highly motivated team of BIM professionals. I'm ISO 19650 management professional and currently pursuing my master's in BIM and integrated project delivery at Bond University. Thanks, Deepak.

DEEPAK MAINI: Brilliant, Steve. Now before I start this class, I want to say a massive, massive thank you to a few people. Speakers such as Steve and myself, we can come in here and just present without any worry in the world because of all the hard work that these people put in the background, including our recording partner Mediasite. Thanks, everyone, for giving us this opportunity and making it so much easier for us.

All right. These are the learning objectives of this class. And this is the description. I'm sure you've gone through this when you signed up for this class.

I want to start this class with an interesting concept. This is the definition of artificial intelligence. It's the theory and development of computer systems that are able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence such as speech recognition, decision making, and so on. And this is the definition of hallucination. It's an experience involving the apparent perception of something that is not present.

Now you would be wondering, why am I talking about artificial intelligence and hallucination? That's because AI hallucination is not that uncommon. So what is AI hallucination? As per zapier.com, AI hallucination is where AI models generate incorrect information but presents it as if it were a fact. And as per techopedia.com, AI hallucination is where the large language model generates false or misleading information but presents it as a confident response.

So confident response. Makes things up and presents it as a confident response. So why does AI hallucinate? Again, as per zapier.com, it's because of the insufficient, outdated, or low quality training data. A term that we use quite often is overfitting where AI models are trained on limited data. But one of my favorites here is where it says AI hallucination occurs when AI goes off the rails trying to please you. Like seriously, trying to please me? Stop pleasing me and give me the correct information. That's what I want.

Now I'm sure you would have seen some examples of AI hallucinations but I've got a couple of examples here for you. The first one is from New York Times. Now a question was asked of ChatGPT as to when did New York Times first report on artificial intelligence. So ChatGPT came up with this answer about this conference at Dartmouth College on July 10, 1956.

Now did that conference happen? Yes. At this college, there was a conference. But did New York Times actually report on this? The answer is no, they did not. So ChatGPT took some information that was available and then made things up to bring you this information which was actually not right.

Another example-- and this is really funny for me but it may not be funny for the actual lawyer-- where a lawyer actually used ChatGPT to provide some information that he included in his 10 page brief citing more than half a dozen relevant court decisions. There was one little problem though. The problem was that none of those actual court decisions happened. Nobody could find any information about those including the judge himself. So the lawyer actually had to apologize to the court.

And I'm sure you must have seen this image about chihuahua or blueberry muffins. For humans, it's very easy to understand which one's blueberry muffin and which one's chihuahua. But for some of these AI models, it's not easy. And again, as I was telling my friend Steve the other day, if we can't find out the visual difference, I'm pretty sure we can taste the difference. Right, Steve? Not that I would want to ever do that.

All right. So you would be wondering, why am I talking about AI hallucination? That's because it's really important for us in this class. Why is it important? Just hold on to that. We're going to come back to that very soon.

Now let's start some numbers. Let's start talking with some numbers here. According to Construction Dive Report, bad project data cost contractors worldwide in 2020 only over $1.8 trillion. So $1.8 trillion was the cost to the contractors just in 2020 because of bad project data. Out of that, 14% of all rework in construction globally was caused by bad data. Now if you put a dollar value to it, it's close to about $280 billion that the construction industry had to pay because of rework cost because of bad data.

Now these are all scary numbers but the question is, how do I keep on top of my project data and analytics? A phrase that's become very common these days is analysis paralysis. So there's so much information available, there's so much analytics available, but it's not actionable. There's not much we can do other than just by looking at that. But how do we actually make any sense of it? That's where it comes into picture Construction IQ. Construction IQ is for projects hosted on Autodesk Construction Cloud.

So what is Construction IQ? It's a machine learning and artificial intelligence-based capability that delivers risk analysis of quality and safety data from your projects. The key is it applies analytical techniques to help transform the data into simple but actionable insights. So the key here is actionable insights. Now these Construction IQ analytics are displayed particularly for risk, design, quality, and safety features of your project. So in simple terms, Construction IQ is machine learning and artificial based algorithms that review the project data and identify high risk areas of your projects. This then provides actionable insights to help you address those risks before they become a major drama, a major impact on your project.

Now coming back to Construction IQ, it is important for us to note that, currently, Construction IQ machine algorithms are optimized only for commercial, health care, institutional, and residential project types. So when you're setting up your projects, make sure it is one of these four project types. Now if you did not set up your project as one of these four project types at the start, you can always come back and edit it to make sure it's one of these types. I will show you a demonstration of this very soon.

So I've also been asked by several customers when we go to our insight module, we have the risk option missing. So if you have the risk option missing, all you need to do is send an email to IQactivations@autodesk.com. Make sure you include your account name and account ID, which can be found here on the Account Admin Settings page.

Now going back to Construction IQ, you would be wondering at the start of this session I mentioned AI hallucinates. So how does Construction IQ mitigate this hallucination risk? Now this is the important bit. Construction IQ and machine learning has been training our AI programs using years of data from a broad set of leading construction firms. Now these are being trained using independent as well as nested AI models.

Now when I say AI models, these are not building information models. These are programs that analyze data sets to find patterns and then provide predictions to you. These are also trained by construction subject matter experts specifically focused using Autodesk data sets and some additional data sets that are provided to us by customers and they have provided us approvals to work with their data sets.

The outputs are reviewed and validated regularly by construction SMEs to ensure that we have got the right information. And if we do not agree with the information, we can always go back and update that. And we can further train the programs. In fact, Steven's going to talk about that very soon as well.

All right. So for the next part of this class, I'm going to hand over to my good friend Steven Bloomer who's going to talk about some GHD case studies. Steven?

STEVEN BLOOMER: Thank you, Deepak, for that in-depth introduction to construction IQ and the power of AI. But how can you use this tool tomorrow? As mentioned, I'm Steven Bloomer. And I've been wrestling with how I can leverage AI on my projects. We all hear about the great benefits AI can bring but where do we start? Who else feels like that? So when I stumbled upon Construction IQ, I knew I'd found that solution. Over the next 10 minutes, I'd like to share with you some real life project examples so you can leverage the same game-changing tools within your Autodesk Construction Cloud.

To give you a bit of context, I work for GHD. We're a global network of multidisciplinary professionals providing our clients with integrated solutions through engineering, environmental, design, and construction expertise. The work I do focuses on transportation, environmental, the water, energy and resource, and built environment engineering. So the two examples I'll be providing today are specific to these sectors but remember these can be utilized by the general contractor and subcontractor markets.

Let me first address the question why. Why do we use Construction IQ on our projects? When I heard about Construction IQ, my first question was, what can Construction IQ do that Power BI dashboards can't do? I imagine you're wondering this as well.

Well, one significant advantage Construction IQ provides over traditional dashboarding-- don't get me wrong. I use Power BI. My colleagues use Power BI. Like most organizations, GHD uses Power BI to showcase a lot of information such as numbers of issues, who they're assigned to, and the priority of those issues. But Construction IQ takes that one step further. It will provide you invaluable insights.

Construction IQ leads your information that your team are putting into issues, RFIs, and forms, and through advanced analytical platform using artificial intelligence and machine learning provides you quick insights into your construction project's performance, risk management, and decision making. It acts as a digital brain, constantly analyzing vast amounts of data your team are pushing to your projects to provide predictive insights that with the likes of traditional dashboarding would not be possible.

So if you're anything like me and don't want to hear about the hypothetical and want to see real life examples, the first case study I'll look at today is how we use Construction IQ in the safety in design process. Before I go into how we use construction IQ in the safety in design process, I'd like to highlight some numbers. Between 2000 and 2002, 44% of all work related fatalities on a construction industry were related to design in Australia. These numbers are Australian but I'll put my money on it they'll be similar around the world.

In Australia, it is compulsory that we carry out safety in design activities on all design projects. These come in many forms depending on the sector you work in. But the outcome should be the same-- to eliminate hazards and risks during the design stage.

Research has shown that fall from heights, struck by objects, electrocution, and caught in or between machines, rotating equipment, or collapsing structures lead to the majority of all fatalities on a construction site. Sometimes these are referred to as a fatal fall so it's critical that we mitigate these during the safety in design activities.

So how do we use Construction IQ in the safety in design process? First, we use the model to assist in this process. If you're not using the model for activities such as safety in design or model coordination, I can't recommend it enough. Model coordination will first federate all discipline models into one single view. We typically use this in parallel with design collaboration to ensure that only models suitable for sharing between the design teams are federated and used in the review process.

From here, in a safety in design workshop, we will thoroughly walk through the site in a predetermined method so not to miss any aspect of the design. As we navigate the project, issues are created with an ACC using templated types.

This example, we've identified a safety risk at the end of the egress stair at the end of the platform. Within model coordination, an issue is created. It is important to ensure the correct issue type has been selected because Construction IQ will use the issue type to group these issues. As you complete the issue, a description shall be entered and a root cause assigned. It is recommended that you customize these for your project and organization as at GHD we've taken this one step further by adding likeliness, impact, mitigation, and priority.

From here, once we've carried out the review and identified significant safety issues, this is where the magic happens. Construction IQ will now review your issues, the descriptions you have entered, and the due dates captured. Within the Insights panel, high risk safety issues will be grouped to assist you and your team in the quick resolution of these issues. As previously mentioned, the fatal four make up the majority of all construction fatalities. Construction IQ cards have grouped these particular safety risks along with fire to highlight them for actions by the design team.

Through the use of AI, Construction IQ has identified the risks and hazards within each issue description that you have entered to do the thinking for you. Imagine you're on a project with 100-plus safety issues identified. Where do you start to provide mitigation or potential control measures? If it was me, before I started using Construction IQ, I'll start at issue one and work my way through the list. This is not the most effective solution. Construction IQ allows you to review issues in order of priority to make your life easier and ultimately reduce the risk to your projects.

Now we've carried out the safety in design review using the federated model as a centerpiece for the process, we've created issues in ACC, we've leveraged Construction IQ to provide and prioritize these issues, we reviewed and provided mitigations or potential control measures within ACC, issued comments, what next? Sometimes we need to provide evidence of our safety in design process. Through the use of compiling data connector extracts and exporting issues lists, a report can be automated to meet your organization's requirements.

The second case study I'd like to share today is how we use Construction IQ to facilitate the process of site inspections. In the past, we would travel to a site with a clipboard and complete either paper form or checklist. Photos would be taken. When back in the office, a report would be drafted, photos will be linked, and a report submitted to our clients. As you can imagine, this is a laborious process, time-consuming, and error prone with photos inevitably linked to incorrect sites and noted as different locations.

With the adoption of iPads and forms with Autodesk Construction Cloud Mobile app, this has revolutionized the process. Checklists, daily reports, safety inspections, site walkthroughs, asset assessments, and certification, to name a few, can now be created as forms. I recommend creating templates for your organization to assist in this process.

Using Autodesk Construction Cloud app allows your teams to complete site inspections via the build forms in on site and in an intuitive manner. From within the form on the mobile device, issues, photos, videos, and notes can be added. One example where our teams use forms is for site inspections of clients' assets. We created a form template within ACC with predetermined questions to allow the engineers to answer. In this example, as the engineer is answering the fields by either typing or by the microphone, the fields are completed. It is worth noting these fields can also be dropdowns.

As the inspector answers the questions within the forms, photos and issues can be added to support the findings. If there's a quality concern, safety issue, or design item identified on site, these will be created as ACC issues. These issues are assigned to actual parties and tracked within ACC. Tracking items through ACC allows all parties to contribute to the closeout and resolution. Once the form is completed, the engineer inspecting the site signs the form and submits it through the system.

So you and your team have been to site and completed the inspection via the form, identified issues, and created them on the fly within ACC. What now? Within the insights tool and utilizing Construction IQ cards, quality issues will be grouped based on risk factors. This will allow the design, contractor, and subcontractor teams to action high priority items first, focusing resources on what matters and returning to the other issues later. Through the use of Construction IQ and leveraging the AI capabilities, project teams have a more focused approach to issue resolution.

As I'm sure you appreciate, AI doesn't get it right 100% of the time. And we found this to be the case when using Construction IQ. Sometimes you may need to change the root cause or the risk factor if you don't think Construction IQ has got it right. Remember the algorithm is currently only optimized for commercial, health care, institutional, and residential type projects. This is my experience and I'm sure in time Autodesk will expand the functionality for infrastructure and industrial type projects.

These capabilities have augmented the way we manage our project information. Construction IQ is a tool that, if used by your teams, can provide clarity and increase productivity in what is typically a time consuming process of issue resolution. Leave here today and implement Construction IQ tomorrow and you will gain the same insights not previously possible. I'll now hand back to Deepak to showcase how to set up Construction IQ on your projects. Thank you, Deepak.

DEEPAK MAINI: Thanks, Steve. That was absolutely amazing, really insightful. But I absolutely loved when you said, this is where the magic happens. And I wonder if actually AI does do some kind of magic to provide us all these analytics.

All right. So anyone who's been to any of my sessions in the past would know I love live software demos. Unfortunately, in this case, it's not live so I've got some demos here for you because I like to show how things actually work on the software in the technology. The first one that I've got is setting up the project types.

As Steve and I mentioned at the start, currently the Construction IQ machine learning algorithms are optimized only for commercial, residential, health care, and institutional projects. So when you are setting up your projects, make sure that these are set up to one of these types. If not, you can always go into your project admin settings and you can edit this project type. All you need to do is on the Settings page, click Edit and then you can go into this dropdown list and select one of those project types from here.

So this is really important. Unless you set up these projects as one of the project types we mentioned, the Construction IQ and machine learning analytics will not be displayed. So just be a bit mindful of that. And I totally agree with Steve here. Moving forward, I reckon infrastructure project types would also be included. When, we don't know, but I'm pretty sure they will be.

All right. The next one that I've got for you is Insight Interface. Autodesk Construction Cloud has this module called insight which is where we see all these Construction IQ-powered cards. So from the product picker on the top left, I'm going to go and pick the insight module. And this is where on the left I can see all these different options. Currently, I'm on the My Dashboard page. But the Construction IQ and machine learning analytics are optimized for risk, design quality, and safety. If I go into risk, I can see all these different cards that I've got Construction IQ listed on the bottom left.

These cards will show you all these analytics that are machine learning and artificial intelligence-powered, so such as high risk issues, overdue issues, and so on. All these different types are available based on Construction IQ. Same thing under design. Same thing under quality, so quality risk factors, high risk issues, quality issues, and water risk issues, and so on. Similarly in safety as well, we've got all these Construction IQ-powered cards. So that's the insight module. The key is make sure you have a look at the cards that show Construction IQ on the bottom left.

The next one I've got for you is actionable insights. As I mentioned earlier, analysis paralysis is a phrase that we are hearing a lot more these days because there's so much information available to you. But if that information is not actionable, it's kind of useless. And this is where Construction IQ actually makes all of this information actionable. Fatal four, for example, that Steve mentioned is available on the safety option here under the subcontractor safety risk along with fire. There are some additional safety risk issues listed here as well.

Similarly, if I go under the safety risk factors, I can simply click on these high risk factors here and I can click on any of these issues. As soon as I do that, it opens the issues in a separate tab where I can now start taking actions to resolve those things. Same thing under quality. If I go to these high risk issues here, I can click on any of these issue IDs to look at them and then I can then click on View An Issue on the bottom left to open this issue in the Issues tool so I can start taking actions. This is what I mean by actionable insights. How cool is this?

The next one is adjusting AI data. As Steve mentioned earlier, AI may not get everything right in the first go. And this is where Construction IQ actually provides us opportunity and options to actually train the AI data correctly. So for example, in this case, I'm on the quality option. And if I go under my quality risk factors, it's showing me that these are the 11 high risk issues.

Now if I do not agree with the AI program, I can go to this particular issue. It's currently listed as a high risk issue. I can say, no, it actually is a low risk issue. I can also then provide options to the program as to why am I updating the predictions. How cool is this? As soon as I go ahead and save this, issue is now changed to a low risk issue. Similarly, if I go to design, I could do that. Same thing with the risk option.

Currently, I've got these 11 high risk issues under quality risk factors. I could go to any of these issues. Let's say in this case, I'll go and click on this issue ID188. And I can update this risk level here. And similar to what I showed you last time, I can then provide feedback to the program as to why am I updating this risk level. So we are given the opportunity to train the AI program based on our project. How cool is this?

The next one that I've got for you is creating custom dashboards. This is really important for us. Whenever we are working on a complex project, we want all our project stakeholders to actually have a consistent view of our issues and RFIs. This is where I can create custom dashboards.

To do that, on the Insight page, I'll click on Create Dashboard. I'll go ahead and name this to let's say hospital. And now I've got this option called card library where I can go and add cards I want. I'm going to start with the address and the weather cards. I can now drag and drop these cards and place them wherever I want. Next, I want to add some Construction IQ cards. In this case, I'm going to pick these two cards here and simply drag and drop them.

Going back to Card Library, I want some factors-based Construction IQ cards, in this case safety and risk, quality, and so on. Again, I'm going to simply drag and drop them to place them wherever I want, so setting up my dashboard the way I like. And lastly, I want to add few more cards here. First, I'll go and add some high risk safety and quality issue cards. And at the end, I'm going to add the fatal four that Steve mentioned. So all these cards are now added. I can save this dashboard. And it is now listed on my insight module. How cool is this?

Now once I've created these custom dashboards, I want to share these with my project members or extended team members. How do we do that? So this hospital dashboard, I can simply click on Export. And I can share this with a company, a role, or a user. So I can go and pick any of these from here. If I have some external members that are not a part of this project, I can even share these dashboards with them with some message.

The other option I've got is share where I can share this dashboard with all my project members, selected project members, or only me. Again, selected project members could be based on companies, users, roles, whatever I want. In this case, I've selected GHD Company and I'm going to go ahead and say done. All the members of the GHD Company will get a notification that there's a dashboard shared with them. They can simply click on that dashboard and then they can see these dashboards on their insight module as well. How cool is this?

So that's all the demonstrations that I've got for you in this session. I want to start talking about some key takeaways for you. So Steve and I talked about a few different things. But if I have to give you four key takeaways from this session, the first one is Construction IQ and machine learning algorithms are optimized for commercial, health care, institutional, and residential project types. So make sure your project type is set to one of these. As I showed you in the demonstration, if you did not do it while setting up the project, you can always go back and edit it.

The second one is the Construction IQ and machine learning based algorithms are currently optimized for risk, design, quality, and safety features that are listed on the insight module. The next one is Construction IQ has been working really hard in mitigating the hallucination risk by training the AI programs or AI models using years of data from a broad set of leading construction firms. But again, if we do not agree with some of that information, we can always provide feedback to the AI models using the Issues window to change the risk level. So we are also given opportunity to update and train the AI models. Again, how cool is this?

I'm going to end this class with saying artificial intelligence and machine learning are here to stay. But they're not going to take our jobs away. They're going to help us. They're going to support us, supplement us in becoming more efficient in our jobs. A very good example that I have seen is this one here from Impact DE. A really good picture showing Chat GPT is not going to take away your jobs because most of our skills-- not if not most. Majority of our skills are irreplaceable.

And that's all we have in this class. We really, really appreciate you joining us and helping us explain the concept of Construction IQ and machine learning. If you have any questions for Steve or myself, please add them in the comments box which is available on this class page. Steve and I are going to regularly look at the comments. And if there are some questions for us, we'll definitely try to answer them as soon as we can. With this, that's all we have in this session. We really appreciate your time. Steve, any last words?

STEVEN BLOOMER: I want to say thank you. Thank you, Deepak, for allowing me to co-present alongside you. And thank you for watching today's session.

DEEPAK MAINI: Thanks, Steven. And thanks, everyone. Hope you are enjoying learning using all these class pages. Thank you.

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We use Tealium to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Tealium Privacy Policy
Upsellit
We use Upsellit to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Upsellit Privacy Policy
CJ Affiliates
We use CJ Affiliates to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. CJ Affiliates Privacy Policy
Commission Factory
We use Commission Factory to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Commission Factory Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Strictly Necessary)
We use Google Analytics (Strictly Necessary) to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Google Analytics (Strictly Necessary) Privacy Policy
Typepad Stats
We use Typepad Stats to collect data about your behaviour on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our platform to provide the most relevant content. This allows us to enhance your overall user experience. Typepad Stats Privacy Policy
Geo Targetly
We use Geo Targetly to direct website visitors to the most appropriate web page and/or serve tailored content based on their location. Geo Targetly uses the IP address of a website visitor to determine the approximate location of the visitor’s device. This helps ensure that the visitor views content in their (most likely) local language.Geo Targetly Privacy Policy
SpeedCurve
We use SpeedCurve to monitor and measure the performance of your website experience by measuring web page load times as well as the responsiveness of subsequent elements such as images, scripts, and text.SpeedCurve Privacy Policy
Qualified
Qualified is the Autodesk Live Chat agent platform. This platform provides services to allow our customers to communicate in real-time with Autodesk support. We may collect unique ID for specific browser sessions during a chat. Qualified Privacy Policy

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Google Optimize
We use Google Optimize to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Google Optimize Privacy Policy
ClickTale
We use ClickTale to better understand where you may encounter difficulties with our sites. We use session recording to help us see how you interact with our sites, including any elements on our pages. Your Personally Identifiable Information is masked and is not collected. ClickTale Privacy Policy
OneSignal
We use OneSignal to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by OneSignal. Ads are based on both OneSignal data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that OneSignal has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to OneSignal to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. OneSignal Privacy Policy
Optimizely
We use Optimizely to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Optimizely Privacy Policy
Amplitude
We use Amplitude to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Amplitude Privacy Policy
Snowplow
We use Snowplow to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Snowplow Privacy Policy
UserVoice
We use UserVoice to collect data about your behaviour on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our platform to provide the most relevant content. This allows us to enhance your overall user experience. UserVoice Privacy Policy
Clearbit
Clearbit allows real-time data enrichment to provide a personalized and relevant experience to our customers. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID.Clearbit Privacy Policy
YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing platform which allows users to view and share embedded videos on our websites. YouTube provides viewership metrics on video performance. YouTube Privacy Policy

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Adobe Analytics
We use Adobe Analytics to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Adobe Analytics Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Web Analytics)
We use Google Analytics (Web Analytics) to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Google Analytics (Web Analytics) Privacy Policy
AdWords
We use AdWords to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AdWords. Ads are based on both AdWords data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that AdWords has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AdWords to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. AdWords Privacy Policy
Marketo
We use Marketo to send you more timely and relevant email content. To do this, we collect data about your online behavior and your interaction with the emails we send. Data collected may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, email open rates, links clicked, and others. We may combine this data with data collected from other sources to offer you improved sales or customer service experiences, as well as more relevant content based on advanced analytics processing. Marketo Privacy Policy
Doubleclick
We use Doubleclick to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Doubleclick. Ads are based on both Doubleclick data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Doubleclick has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Doubleclick to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Doubleclick Privacy Policy
HubSpot
We use HubSpot to send you more timely and relevant email content. To do this, we collect data about your online behavior and your interaction with the emails we send. Data collected may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, email open rates, links clicked, and others. HubSpot Privacy Policy
Twitter
We use Twitter to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Twitter. Ads are based on both Twitter data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Twitter has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Twitter to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Twitter Privacy Policy
Facebook
We use Facebook to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Facebook. Ads are based on both Facebook data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Facebook has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Facebook to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Facebook Privacy Policy
LinkedIn
We use LinkedIn to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by LinkedIn. Ads are based on both LinkedIn data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that LinkedIn has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to LinkedIn to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. LinkedIn Privacy Policy
Yahoo! Japan
We use Yahoo! Japan to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Yahoo! Japan. Ads are based on both Yahoo! Japan data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Yahoo! Japan has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Yahoo! Japan to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Yahoo! Japan Privacy Policy
Naver
We use Naver to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Naver. Ads are based on both Naver data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Naver has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Naver to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Naver Privacy Policy
Quantcast
We use Quantcast to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Quantcast. Ads are based on both Quantcast data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Quantcast has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Quantcast to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Quantcast Privacy Policy
Call Tracking
We use Call Tracking to provide customized phone numbers for our campaigns. This gives you faster access to our agents and helps us more accurately evaluate our performance. We may collect data about your behavior on our sites based on the phone number provided. Call Tracking Privacy Policy
Wunderkind
We use Wunderkind to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Wunderkind. Ads are based on both Wunderkind data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Wunderkind has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Wunderkind to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Wunderkind Privacy Policy
ADC Media
We use ADC Media to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by ADC Media. Ads are based on both ADC Media data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that ADC Media has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to ADC Media to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. ADC Media Privacy Policy
AgrantSEM
We use AgrantSEM to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AgrantSEM. Ads are based on both AgrantSEM data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that AgrantSEM has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AgrantSEM to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. AgrantSEM Privacy Policy
Bidtellect
We use Bidtellect to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bidtellect. Ads are based on both Bidtellect data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bidtellect has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bidtellect to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bidtellect Privacy Policy
Bing
We use Bing to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bing. Ads are based on both Bing data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bing has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bing to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bing Privacy Policy
G2Crowd
We use G2Crowd to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by G2Crowd. Ads are based on both G2Crowd data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that G2Crowd has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to G2Crowd to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. G2Crowd Privacy Policy
NMPI Display
We use NMPI Display to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by NMPI Display. Ads are based on both NMPI Display data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that NMPI Display has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to NMPI Display to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. NMPI Display Privacy Policy
VK
We use VK to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by VK. Ads are based on both VK data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that VK has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to VK to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. VK Privacy Policy
Adobe Target
We use Adobe Target to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Adobe Target Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Advertising)
We use Google Analytics (Advertising) to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Google Analytics (Advertising). Ads are based on both Google Analytics (Advertising) data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Google Analytics (Advertising) has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Google Analytics (Advertising) to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Google Analytics (Advertising) Privacy Policy
Trendkite
We use Trendkite to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Trendkite. Ads are based on both Trendkite data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Trendkite has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Trendkite to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Trendkite Privacy Policy
Hotjar
We use Hotjar to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Hotjar. Ads are based on both Hotjar data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Hotjar has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Hotjar to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Hotjar Privacy Policy
6 Sense
We use 6 Sense to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by 6 Sense. Ads are based on both 6 Sense data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that 6 Sense has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to 6 Sense to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. 6 Sense Privacy Policy
Terminus
We use Terminus to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Terminus. Ads are based on both Terminus data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Terminus has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Terminus to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Terminus Privacy Policy
StackAdapt
We use StackAdapt to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by StackAdapt. Ads are based on both StackAdapt data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that StackAdapt has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to StackAdapt to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. StackAdapt Privacy Policy
The Trade Desk
We use The Trade Desk to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by The Trade Desk. Ads are based on both The Trade Desk data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that The Trade Desk has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to The Trade Desk to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. The Trade Desk Privacy Policy
RollWorks
We use RollWorks to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by RollWorks. Ads are based on both RollWorks data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that RollWorks has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to RollWorks to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. RollWorks Privacy Policy

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