Adam Sjödin—urban planner and digital strategist with Sweco Architects based in Stockholm, Sweden—will detail project timelines and how data and design flow between geographic information systems (GIS), Spacemaker, Sweco's in-house carbon-calculation tool C3, and Revit software. Projects often employ tools such as GIS, Spacemaker, Revit, or all of the above, but the different contributors and stakeholders are frequently stuck in silos, focusing simply on their immediate needs and not a project’s full timeline, which makes them inefficient. To mitigate this, Sweco has developed methods and workflows to streamline the flow of data in projects and to digitalize this process and utilize all available and new data early on. This ensures that the project starts on the right foot, workflows are efficient, and all of the data is available and utilized. With this method, you can pinpoint a place of interest, analyze the potential of the site, and work through to a finished project.

The need for affordable housing has never been so high worldwide. One possible solution is to optimize the development of new neighborhoods. But how can you get a maximum number of residential buildings on your plot in a sustainable way while still providing comfort? In this class, we'll teach you step by step how you can use Generative Design for Revit and Dynamo to optimize the planning of neighborhoods of single-family residential buildings, including plot subdivision, land-use assignment, and placement and shape of structures. We’ll then review how Spacemaker brings even more value into this complex exercise for the optimization of multifamily residential buildings.

The most important part of the extendable platform are people who contribute to extending the functionality. Come listen to the stories of the development teams that have successfully built their solutions on top of Autodesk Forma. Learn not only about functionality provided, but also about motivation behind extending the ecosystem and ideas about where the industry is heading next!

To meet global demand for affordable and sustainable housing, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry must streamline the design-to-construction process. Modular builders—like Factory_OS—are doing just that by productizing their building systems to generate customizable buildings from a catalog of construction-ready unit types. With Factory_OS, Autodesk Research has developed new design methods that connect their building unit catalog with AI-powered generative design to create multiple design options. This case study demonstrates how new procedural design systems enabled rapid, no-code design exploration while balancing trade-offs between cost, carbon, and habitability. The study also showcases how the prototype made it onto Autodesk Forma using the developer extension model to deliver customized novel design functionality and metrics. Going beyond existing capabilities, Autodesk Research and Autodesk Forma enabled Factory_OS to rapidly and intuitively evaluate new development projects in a data-informed manner.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are bringing disruption across industries, changing the way we create images, text, and code. Within architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), these tools will transform the design and construction process. Professionals in AEC must stay informed of this fast-moving technology to remain competitive and aware of the innovative design-and-make software. TileGPT is an LLM-powered prototype developed within Autodesk Research to generate optimized designs using intuitive and flexible text-based input. This session will cover the technical capabilities of this generative AI system, which uses optimization to enable rapid design exploration. It presents example use cases within AEC design, including performance-driven generation of building massing, site design, facade layouts, and more. With generative AI, Autodesk Research is expanding what's possible within design tools, and showcasing new design experiences that are fast, intuitive, and accessible.

Across the globe, individuals and companies are working together using various disciplines and tools to create remarkable products, buildings, and experiences for today and the future. With Data Exchange, distributed teams can easily share and consume geometry and parameter data without requiring access to the original design file or authoring app. Traditional data-sharing methods may result in incomplete translations, leading to time-consuming workarounds. Alternatively, using third-party plug-ins to capture the complete information being shared can also lead to problems. Come and see how Data Exchange connectors provide a durable solution for interoperability and collaborative work, resulting in better synchronization workflows for seamless design development. This enables teams to focus on essential aspects of the design rather than repetitive tasks, conserving their energy. This class will cover the creation of Data Exchange connectors and their seamless collaboration across distributed teams.

Architects today face challenges in task management, fragmented data flow, project complexity, sustainability, and maintaining quality control. Discover how Forma, Revit, 3ds Max, AR/VR, and other digital tools empower architects to overcome these challenges, automate tasks, foster collaboration, and adopt a holistic approach to design. Join us in this inspiring industry talk where we will explore how these tools are improving the design process, enabling architects to unleash their creativity while addressing environmental challenges and delivering sustainable, future-proof buildings.

In this class, we will go over all the latest details about the Autodesk Platform Services Data Initiatives from an API perspective. Access your design data in a granular fashion using GraphQL in Autodesk Platform Services. If you're a customer, developer, or partner and want to see the latest information about the API status for each of the three platform data areas, then this is the class for you. As you have heard before, Autodesk is investing heavily in cloud data with Autodesk Fusion 360 (manufacturing), Autodesk Forma (AEC /BIM), and Autodesk Flow (media and entertainment) industry groups. At the center is also the Data Exchange service that allows data to be shared in a specific and durable way. From authoring to access, this class will explain the details about each service and how to use the API to access the data. We'll also cover the fact that data can be accessed across each of the information models, and via Data Exchange, in an easy fashion.

Everywhere you look, there are headlines that impact the built world. Talent gaps, materials shortages, climate events, and digital acceleration. The future of the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations industry depends on turning disruption into opportunity. Join Nicolas Mangon and other industry leaders for a look at what's new in AECO Design and Make, including Autodesk Forma, artificial intelligence, and announcements across our portfolio, as well as a celebration of the customers who are tackling the headlines in real-time.

Sustainability is emerging as the main value driver of the future of building. Reducing a building's carbon footprint decreases its running costs, improves the workforce's sense of purpose, and raises property value. Buildings become also socially, economically, and environmentally responsible. In turn, they become more profitable, and are healthier places to live and work. In this class, we’ll focus on an outcome-based design workflow from schematic design in Spacemaker to design development in Revit and Insight software. The discussion is centered on concrete milestones and frameworks connected to sustainable KPIs in early phase development. We’ll explore a small mixed-use plot in central London with views of the River Thames and HMS Belfast.

In this session we demonstrate how Spacemaker can be leveraged to quickly kick-off a project and validate design decisions. Saving you time and effort, we’ll demonstrate the ideal workflow to combine the strengths of Spacemaker and Revit. From project setup and validating concept proposals using Spacemaker's user friendly analysis tools we'll give you a thorough beginners guide to get you started in the software. We'll wrap up the session with a demo of the Revit add in to easily migrate your proposals to Revit for further design development. Need to tweak your proposals - we'll show how to migrate your proposal back into Spacemaker for further analysis.

There is increased focus on how Digital will disrupt the E&C sector. Most executives now understand that soon, engineers will not design, they will develop the algorithms that automate the design of solutions. According to the 2023 Deltek Clarity survey, ¾ of E&C participants worry that they will lose market share within 2 years if they fail to transform. Also, CAPEX is increasing in most sectors, therefore successful transformation is not only seen as a necessary mean to remain profitable, but also to increase capacity and gain market share. However, it is common for E&C firms to struggle in transforming leveraging Technologies. Usual "ways of working" such as focus on utilization rate, risk aversion and silos can impede a successful transformation. There would be merit in conducting a panel discussion with leaders from different horizons to discuss the above, focusing on the why, potential solutions and how they made meaningful progress happen while addressing these challenges.

Autodesk Forma software is Autodesk's cloud-based solution for early-stage planning and design. Aside from having a rich, evolving feature set, Autodesk Forma is also a platform: It exposes a powerful set of APIs that allow you to extend the core functionality with custom data and analyses. This session will look at the various ways to extend Autodesk Forma, with a particular focus on how Autodesk Research has created a voxel-based analysis extension using the embedded views software development kit (SDK).

Ask your programming and business questions to our panel of hardcore cloud and mobile experts from our software development teams. If you're writing solutions based on these technologies or just about to start and want to know more, this is the perfect forum to get to know the people who create the APIs and services you work with as well as your fellow programmers who use those APIs. Ask questions, add your expertise to the discussion, or listen and learn.

Industrialized construction is growing rapidly in North America and globally. This session will survey current best-practices related to successful business models in offsite/industrialized construction and prefabrication including an innovative example from Ladacube, where we are seeing adoption, and digital tools that can support growth. Finally, this session will synthesize what we've learned to-date to highlight promising forward-looking practices and technologies which will enable additional growth of IC/offsite construction going forward.

Sustainable, low-carbon buildings play a pivotal role in environmental sustainability and economic decarbonization. In this session, we'll discuss how CPAC Green Construction and Autodesk initiated a design competition in Thailand to spur the next generation's interest in creating low-carbon, net-zero buildings. This competition uniquely pairs young architects with engineering students early in the design stage to promote systems thinking right from the conceptual stage. We provide these students with Autodesk Forma, Revit software, KIT CARBON (embodied carbon calculator software), and comprehensive online training, empowering them to shape sustainable, low-carbon buildings. Through the collaborative efforts of various associations and industry partners, the competition was a great success, attracting 88 teams from 12 universities.