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.

How can we coordinate people around the world in a project of 3,250,655 cubic meters, divided into more than 400 multidisciplinary Revit models? This class will show how 3D coordination is possible in an effective way using Collaboration for Revit and BIM 360 Team. The Red Line North Underground project in Doha, Qatar, was started with the use of many different local systems (Revit servers) and a central storage useful for exchanging models and information. The adoption of the BIM 360 platform let us optimize the workflows, saving time and money. With the integrated cooperation and collaboration made possible by the platform, efficiency was maximized, therefore providing a solid base for the decision-making process. Thanks to BIM 360 software, all members of the team could share information and collaborate, regardless of where they were physically located, capitalizing on the contributions, skills, and intuitions of all team members in a smooth and simple way.

In the spring of 2018, Autodesk introduced BIM 360 Design software, based on the Forge platform, and BIM 360 Document Management. While users still have access to the legacy BIM 360 Team technology, BIM 360 Design provides enhanced collaboration workflows, greater control over file permissions, and much tighter integration with BIM 360 Docs software for use in "downstream" collaboration workflows during a project’s postdesign phases. This class will focus on the enhanced workflows possible with Design Collaboration and Revit cloud collaboration, and will cover project setup, teams and permissions, and the use of packages to effectively control when others have access to your data and when data from other teams is updated in your model. We will also look at common troubleshooting techniques and BIM 360 site setup.

The BIM 360 Product Management Team will review the recent enhancements to the Design Collaboration module and share priorities for the product road map. Learn about how BIM 360 software can help you publish, manage, review, and approve all project drawings, documents, and models across the project lifecycle.

Autodesk, Inc., and AutomationForce Inc. partnered to develop Substation Design Suite software for Inventor software. Substation Design Suite software is a big part of the future of substation design. The functionality of the Substation Design Suite tools provides the ability to configure for your situation while meeting industry-wide standards. This class will give examples of using cloud-based content to do job takeoffs or estimates, configuring the Substation Design Suite template file and Content Editor, and placing station layouts and design checks.

Do you need to share IFC files on your project? If so, this is an essential session for you. We will explore the importance of interoperability from Revit using IFC. Using the IFC Exporter Plugin, we will explore all the hidden settings, controls, and tricks to give you the confidence, and control as to what information appears in the IFC. You will control Rooms, Space, IFC Classes, and Zone. Not all IFC exports are equal.

BIM 360 software introduces a common language for all construction stakeholders, from design to facility management. We will show you how to organize this common language, and use all the new BIM 360 modules (Document Management, Design Collaboration, Model Coordination and Project/Field Management) in the smartest way. We will also show how you could connect BIM 360 to external applications and databases using our Forge development platform. Implementing the use of this common language is similar to solving a puzzle, as there are different BIM 360 pieces of technology (cloud and desktop) that we need to put together in the right order and position. This presentation will be based on our knowledge and users’ feedback.

"Join ACS product managers for an update on the recent advancements in BIM 360 Document Management and a look into the future direction of the product. BIM 360 Document Management serves as the common data platform for BIM 360, and supports core publishing, sharing, approving and editing of plans, models and documents."

For this project, we used BIM 360 Docs software as a collaborative platform that centralizes models, documents, and meta data. This class’s main goal is to show how Brunet Saunier Architecture implemented and used BIM 360 Docs workflows on a large hospital project in Paris, France. The first part will cover design and construction phases for one of the Lariboisière hospital buildings (6,000 square meters). We’ll describe how the firm implemented and used BIM 360 collaborative processes to involve the hospital owner, as well as three construction companies (general contractor, plumbing, and HVAC). In the second part, we’ll cover the design of the hospital’s main building (55,000 square meters) and what is planned for the construction phase in the future. The owner conducted a procedure that awarded six contracts (disciplines); each company was asked to provide full intelligent models (geometry and data). We are planning on using BIM 360 to ensure the data is unique and consistent, and that it matches the contracts.

This is the story of how DPR Construction, along with its design and building-owner partners, was able to successfully implement BIM 360 Docs software as a project collaboration solution on the VCU Health Children’s Hospital project in Richmond, Virginia. Thanks to the growing number of features included with BIM 360 Docs, the team was able to eliminate or integrate the use of more than a dozen design and construction applications traditionally used by the various team members. This talk will discuss the decision that the team made in early 2017 to go with BIM 360, and will chronicle the peaks and valleys the team overcame on their journey to successful implementation. The talk will include insight into the benefits of using BIM 360 Docs on a large project with many stakeholders, including how the team utilized the software for file sharing, model collaboration, design reviews, and drawing management. We’ll conclude with a discussion on future processes the team has planned as the project moves from design into construction.

Parsons Corporation—a technology-focused defense, intelligence, and infrastructure engineering firm—has implemented BIM 360 technology on its infrastructure projects for the past five years. The enhanced Revit collaborative tools and file restrictions are great, but as many have discovered, it’s not easy or straightforward to set up a BIM 360 project. We will show you how Parsons has implemented BIM 360 with Revit and Civil 3D integration, explain how georeferenced coordinates work, discuss the challenges we encountered because of our client base, and share work-arounds to get BIM 360 implemented in our diverse project portfolio. Our projects are anything but typical, and nor were the challenges we encountered when implementing BIM 360. What we learned while setting up and testing BIM 360 at Parsons will help you efficiently implement it at your office.

Digital transformation impacts nearly every facet of an organization. For the Construction Industry, this digital transformation is palpable and encompasses how people, culture, technology and process intertwine. Research shows that diversity and inclusion are key components that can encourage new ways of working and help to unlock this potential. And yet… women rising into leadership positions where they can help usher this transformation remains a challenge for the construction industry. In this interactive panel, you’ll hear directly from women in leadership roles as they share their personal stories of rising in the industry, and the strategies they use to develop frameworks for managing innovation in construction, tapping into unique background of teams, and empowering a culture where transformation (and diversity) can thrive.

Everybody seems to be talking about the gender gap at work, but nobody seems to know what to do about it. Gender diversity is a complex issue and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Most corporate diversity strategies to date have focused on supporting women through programs like mentorship and women’s leadership conferences. This approach sounds good in theory, but it places the responsibility solely on women. The truth is that women are not holding themselves back from leadership; the latest research confirms that workplace culture is preventing women from achieving equality. Things will never change unless all genders take part in finding a solution. In this interactive session, we’ll talk about how all genders can get involved, and how to use the concept of sponsorship (not mentorship) to accelerate women into leadership positions.

Learn how to create clash detection in BIM 360 Coordination using a published model from Revit software to BIM 360 Docs software using a cloud worksharing workflow. Learn how to set up coordination space, automate clash detection, review clashes with a team, create unified issues, assign issues to team members, create an approval workflow, set up granular permissions, change analysis, and create a BIM 360 dashboard. We’ll also cover grouping clashing, selection of clashing, integration, and so on. BIM 360 Design software is a product for cloud worksharing and design collaboration that is built for distributed, multidisciplinary teams. With BIM 360 Design, you can co-author Revit models in the cloud, control worksharing activities, and coordinate deliverable exchange across teams. Model Coordination provides a shared space to publish, review, and run clashes on your latest set of project models. See how when you upload 3D models to a centralized Model Coordination folder, the clash service automatically locates any issues in those models.

Getting everyone in your organization to a basic level of understanding of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and virtual design and construction (VDC) tools has historically been a nightmare. Learn how iPads and other basic technology enable a workforce to be far more efficient and more profitable.

Inspired by the book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, this presentation will highlight a collection of tips to improve your role as a Building Information Modeling (BIM) manager in an architecture, engineering, or construction company. From more than 20 years of experience, you will learn how to streamline your time, better understand the needs of your users, and much more. Whether you are a full-time or part-time technologist or you’re considering BIM management as a career path, this presentation aims to be fun and inspiring. AIA Approved

One of our industry’s greatest challenges is sharing timely information between preconstruction and construction teams. Translating the current communication deficiencies into an IPD project makes the challenge even greater. Dealing with different teams outside your company, their unique workflows, and varied project management tools can be overwhelming. It requires the adoption of a common data environment and established workflows between the owner and the rest of the IPD partners. Engaging with a lean BIM (Building Information Modeling) mindset, attendees will identify the key elements to make the most out of workflows for BIM 360 Docs, BIM 360 Design, and BIM 360 Build software. We will go through the project’s framework and bridge the gap of siloed data project management with BIM 360 software. We’ve streamlined the stakeholders’ communication by reducing up to 35% of response and approval times regarding issues, RFIs, submittals, and field checklists.